I’ve lived a double online life since June 2009.
Over the past four months, I’ve maintained two blogs–this place where you read my strategies and tips on social media marketing–and another site where I write more sporadic but no less prolific about my campaign for city council.
In cahoots with my campaign blog, I built campaign outposts on Facebook (here) and Twitter (here). With increasing intensity every week, and then every day, I focused more on the campaign social media sites than my so-called business ones.
At at the end of the day–Election Day–the people who go the polls will determine my fate on the city council January 1. There’s no denial social media has played a part in recent months, but to what extent, the next 21 hours will tell…
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Ari Herzog is an online media strategist and Newburyport City Councilor-Elect.
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I hope that your efforts will pay off, and you will get the votes you need!
~ Kristi
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I have been hearing a lot of the SEO’s talking about social SEO not being all that it is cracked up to be. There is a big hype around it right now.
Congratulations on your win!
I think Social Media is definitely important.
The only reason Obama won the election was because of the Social Media power.
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It is tough to tell the best paths to take with social networking – it is still an emerging field with a lot of questions.
Hi Ari
I hope your efforts pay off for you my man !!
Im interested to hear the results so please do update us when you have more to share
Thanks !
Dean
This is very interesting, it’s the first time I’ve seen someone running for city council using social media to help get the word out. Good luck to you and let us know to what extent you think social media ended up helping you. -Scott
Congrats, Ari! Best of luck with your new term on the City Council.
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If I could vote for you I would- but since I’m in Brazil… all I can do is wish you the best outcome- hope you win!
Eren
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