LatISM Twitter Party
Part of our Latinos In Social Media Initiative. Dear Friends, It’s a great honor to invite you to our first #Latism Party to launch our LatISM Heritage Tour! It will take place tonight at 9:00 pm EST on Twitter. Please join us to meet the event organizers: Nancy at @nancyperez – for LATISM-FL George at @urbanjibaro – for LATISM-NY Juan at @juantornoe – for... Read More
Intelligent Passion
The title is an interesting one: on the one hand you have emotion, on the other thought; two opposites lined up creating a synergy. This comes out of a conversation I had with a friend. He posted this: “Connected events, on the other hand, often benefit from frequency and trust. “ I suggested that passion should be acknowledged here. He wrote back: “passion... Read More
Does Social Media Influence Our Socialbility?
The question over at Mashable is “Does Social Media Make Us Better People?” If you think about this simplistically, you may liken this to an analogy of a safe car: a safe car alone cannot make a safe driver. However, the difficult answer is that it can. Just like the influence of graffiti-less trains can stop crime, so can the influence of social media make us... Read More
The Want Of Latinos In Social Media
When I finally quit smoking for good, I realized there was a tremendous difference between liking something to happen and wanting something to happen. Many times “I quit” only to smoke again. After some time, it was apparent to me that I did not want to quit…I would’ve liked to quit. And that made all the difference in the world. The same want developed... Read More
Social Media Solves Latino AssimilationAcculturation Problem
This is something I’ve addressed repeatedly over the years: keeping one’s traditions vs. assimilation acculturation. With most ‘hot buttons’ this topic follows suit and lines up the ranks either for or against. While I never understood why the lines had to be so trenched in the ground, it seems to me that both sides are skewed and serve to only slide... Read More
Social Media Update Methods
These are some of my social media updating methods that I utilize. Some can be combined and eliminated as well as added, but this is what is being worked with for now . I know it’s a lot, however in my mind it is all second nature. I did not include other services such as Twitpic or scripts that I use, as I consider these extensions to Twitter and not a true update method. Ping.fm... Read More
‘Gettting’ Facebook
“When did it click for you?” This is a question commonly asked of those involved in social media. What is meant by this question is when and how did social media become fully realized by the participant. For this to be relevant, some inherent implications are assumed: They’ve had some success in social media. At some point they did not know what they were doing. Social... Read More
“Please ReTweet!”
Out of the top 10 ReTweeted words used on Twitter,’please’and ‘retweet’ - “…please, retweet!” – comes in second and third respectively. Asking around, others shared my feeling that it sounds cheesy and cheap to ask for your Tweet to be ReTweeted. However, the math proves this works – and you can’t argue with math. But... Read More
I Have Interest, Therefore I ReTweet
Dan Zarella, compared the top 200 most followed users against the top 200 suggested users on Twitter. He found on average, that the top 200 non-suggested users had more ReTweets than the top 200 suggested users. This means that the top 200 non-suggested users have far more influence than Twitter’s suggested top 200. Dan’s conclusion: “I think this is likely... Read More
