Why I follow 10,000 People on Twitter…and Why They Follow Me
Subtitle: To catch many fish you need a big net Because people approach Social Media in a temperamental fashion, I feel the need to post this. On Twitter, the amount of followers one has is a sensitive area. Social media is such a fickle area that there are not many things concrete. Social media is situational. I hover around 10,000 followers and I follow about the same. ... Read More
What are Latin@s Cooking in the Social Media Oven?
Subtitle: Use social media to gain insights on the next trend Yesterday, I had the honor of participating on the pop-culture panel at iConomy, and share the stage with some very influential pop-culture icons and influencers. One big take away was the discussion of Latinos owning their own businesses and being media producers. There’s a lot of hope here, and social media is... Read More
A few takeaways from my Social Media sessions
The Few But Not Forgotten: Discovering the Nation’s Most Influential Latino Men Bloggers One of the highlights of this session was acknowledging the influence of women bloggers over Laitno male bloggers. Without minimalizing the effort of women I have two thoughts on this: 1) Latino men don’t see blogging as ‘manly’ when I started to blog back in 2003 men... Read More
Lifting the hood on Social Media Applications
Update 3/31/2011: More content updated on this post over at Hispancize. Subtitle: Get to the core of the matter Here are a couple of examples of technology simplified: Facebook. One of the most popular social media application on the planet. All it is really is an advanced message board. Twitter. Hailed as Cadillac of micro-blogging and one of the most popular social media applications... Read More
Traveling, Upgrades and other Anomalies
Updated 3/14/2011 I was in Austin, TX and was sucked into the SXSW conference, so no posting until tomorrow – I’m recuperating from losing 2 hours: one from Day Light Savings and the other from the time zone change. There was some back-end work done over the weekend on this site by the creative people at MediaMonarkey, so please excuse any blog-anomalies as we work... Read More
Fox News Latino to the Latino community: How can we represent you?
Given the recent buzz of how Latinos are leveraging social media, it may come as a surprise that they can find the same liberating experience through a large media corporation, namely Fox News Latino. The social web has penetrated the way we communicate and has empowered the individual; not wanting to be tossed aside, large businesses have adapted these new tools and have learned... Read More
The Lack of Latino Attendees at Conferences
Subtitle: Participation, participation, par-ti-ci-pation Let’s say the above picture is a conference on technology. How much of the audience do you think are Hispanic? 10%…20%…30%…more? What if I said probably 1% or less? Given the knowledge that Hispanics are the largest consumers of technology that may be a hard swallow. Besides Latino-centric seminars... Read More
Want to ask questions in Spanish on Quora? Think again.
As Quora is still young, it just doesn’t make sense for them to support other languages until they see it viable to enter non-English speaking countries or communities. Even if there was a group of early Spanish speaking adapters on Quora, the community at large would not be able to reciprocate participation on Spanish content. Maybe in the future when more Spanish users... Read More
#140 Conference
Are you a character? Jeff’s events are great! A wide mix of people and topics bombards your brain from all sides. This Thursday, I’ll be at the #140conf breafest in NYC. Will you be there? AKPC_IDS += "3614,";Popularity: 4% [?] Read More
Things that go Bump and then can catch on…
A discussion on Twitter had me thinking about multiple levels of conversational entry points and their wide spread possibilities (pics below followed by text): The above conversation started because I recently joined the iPhone (r)evolution and shared one of my favorite apps – bump. (If you must know it was between the iPhone and Droid2, but the iPhone’s visual... Read More
Weekly Roundup for Latino Social Media (2/7 – 2/12)
The weekly round up is here. Pressed for time? Then read the post titled Program or be Programmed, and the one about the Digital Divide. Oh, if you’re into marketing/advertising the Google US Hispanic Marketing video event is a must. Made it this far? Then read ‘em all. Business Google US Hispanic Marketing Forum Event Sizzle Reel Community Mobile access does... Read More
Program or be Programmed
Subtitle: Facebook’s Days Are Numbered: How social media resists all efforts to make it otherwise Yesterday, I had the pleasure of going down to Google offices in NYC, to hear a very lively and sometimes funny discussion with Josh Harris, Douglas Rushkoff with Erick Schonfeld on some disturbing (or not) trends in our use of social media. The take away: Are we being... Read More
Spanish Tweeting Companies
Subtitle: Global or Local sites, social media, tweeting, etc… Prompted by a conversation I had early yesterday, here are two companies that you may not expect to tweet in Spanish, but do (I just realized that this is a very American, ahem…North American/U.S. standpoint): Engadget @es_engadget Gizmodo @gismodo_ES A questions here is who are they targeting? From the... Read More
Weekly Roundup (1/24 – 2/5/11)
This is a special double weekly round up post – special because I realized that I did not do one last week. But, all the better. There are some posts in the past 2 weeks that received a lot of traffic and are highlighted in bold if you want to skip to that content. Blog Comments as Posts The Art of the Draft Post The real McCoy: Producing Original Content Hispanicize Majority... Read More
Microblogging = Social Media Haiku
Subtitle: Social Media Graffitti Depending on where you look you may or may not have seen much buzz on microblogging platforms such as Tumblr and Posterous. Personally, I’ve not spent much time thinking about them because I set them and forgot them (automated). Revisiting them however, has brought some interesting insight. Sure, you can blog full time at Tumblr and Posterous,... Read More
