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Sharing My Ego to Help You

Jan. 8, 2010

I don’t write about my ego a lot. No better time than the present.
Longtime readers may recall the reasons and tips I shared for monitoring your name through tools such as Google Alerts, which provides me daily messages about references to my name and my various online personas. Anything matching “Ari Herzog” or “ariherzog” or [...]

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Share Your Community with Bing

Dec. 2, 2009

If you are anything like me, you walk around your community with a camera and take pictures when the mood strikes. I shot the above photo one day when looking for unique perspectives. If I’m writing in your language, keep reading because I want to make your photography notorious.
Note: Scroll below if you don’t care [...]

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New Search Engine Arrives: Green GUSfinder

Dec. 2, 2009

Its index is not as large as Google’s and its servers aren’t as fast, but GUSfinder is a new search engine that offers you three unique aspects that you should seriously consider.
Lebanese software developer Ghassan Chahine created the company, according to his LinkedIn profile. He’s also the webmaster for Nahar Ash Shabab, a supplement to [...]

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Forrester Research Gets an F in Monitoring

Apr. 8, 2009

But that’s not the only company with an F.
Two weeks ago, I challenged six social media evangelists at a wide range of organizations to add a blog comment as proof whether or not they or their colleagues were actively monitoring blogs.
Many social media consultants and community managers routinely search for their names, their corporate executives’ [...]

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Why Monitoring Your Name is Important

Mar. 22, 2009

Do you monitor your name if someone mentions it in a blog post? Whether you are an individual, company, nonprofit organization, or government agency, you’re keeping tabs on bloggers who write about you, right?
By means of example, if I didn’t ego surf my own name and links to my blog, I wouldn’t know that David [...]

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Could There Be a Correlation Between Search Engine Queries Getting Longer and Blog Post Titles Getting Longer?

Mar. 20, 2009

Frederic Lardinois opines:
This is an interesting trend, and it could be interpreted in a variety of way. This could mean that a growing number of users is finding less value in the search results they get from relatively unspecific, short queries. It could also indicate that users are becoming more sophisticated in how they structure [...]

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Stop Using Search Engines

Feb. 22, 2009

Can you?
I don’t need to tell you that the web is progressively beating the library in every battle for information. The search engine has effectively replaced the card catalog, microfilm reader, magazine stand, and bestseller list.
Representing those born after 1993, the Google generation is trending the future with 93 percent of college students satisfied finding [...]

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