April 2009

Patience, Participation, and Engagement

April 27, 2009

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Guest Interview with Ben Wayne: Why Online Video Marketing is Effective

April 27, 2009

Benjamin Wayne is the founder, president, and CEO of Fliqz, a B2B provider of plug-and-play video solutions. Fliqz (@Fliqz) targets small and medium-sized businesses, offering them the ability to upload video content, and a host of other turnkey functions from embedding to streamcasting to customizing. Ben responded to my HARO query for best practices in [...]

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Why My Twitter Train is Stopping

April 25, 2009

On two particular blog posts in recent weeks, I shared my thoughts about using Twitter. I started with a perspective on why I wasn’t following your stream. I later probed you to help me determine if reciprocal following was best. In the comments after each post, you shared your thoughts; and the consensus is everyone [...]

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Can You Help My Twitter Growing Pains?

April 23, 2009

I’m experiencing Twitter growing pains–and I seek your advice. After creating my Twitter account on June 9, 2008–three days after Kim Woodbridge wrote about environmental resources and engaged me in the comment section of her blog on why she uses Twitter–I’ve microblogged over 22,000 times. That’s a lot of sets of 140 characters! Along the [...]

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On College Porn and Money, the Policy Way

April 22, 2009

Responding to my blog interview two weeks ago with adult entertainer Stoya on how she uses social media, several people added heated comments that pornography was unjust and immoral. I have a question for them–and for you. Which is the greater evil: the First Amendment right of a taxpayer-funded university to screen a pornographic film [...]

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USA vs EUROPE: A Government Website Battle

April 21, 2009

Jointly organized by the American Society for Public Administration (of which I’m a member) and the European Group of Public Administration (of which I’m not), the fifth annual TransAtlantic Dialogue commences in June at George Mason University. This provides worthy fodder for what I’m about to argue: namely, that the European Union is beating the [...]

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Why Search Engine Rank is Important

April 21, 2009

The owner of a self-described Seattle-based search engine optimization company, Wesley LeFebvre, writes on the “about” page of SEO Rankings that he created the blog to offer you strategies to increase search engine traffic to your website. With one blog post so far, I wait to see what he does with it. I raise Wesley’s [...]

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GoDaddy Essentially Changes its Name to Big Brother

April 20, 2009

Moments ago, I received the following email from GoDaddy regarding my contract with the registrar for several domains: Dear Ari Herzog, In accordance with our terms of service, please be aware that we have made a change in Section 4, Account Security. View details of this policy change. If you have questions about our updated [...]

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