Attribution and Influence in Social Media
Subtitle: Copycats So you have a group of friends on Twitter, Facebook or what have you that you interact with regularly. You are also, or become active in other areas outside your regular group according to your interests, let’s say psychology or culinary or knitting. All of the sudden, you start to see a friend from your regular group participating in these same areas.... Read More
Latinos Rising
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Meetings with Remarkable People
Subtitle: How social media enables you to meet influential people Because of my active presence online for the past 7 years, my Address book is filled with very influential people. It’s an accomplishment that I’m proud of which is actually a by-product of my activities. From CEO’s to entrepreneurs, artists to authors, activists to government officials, I have... Read More
Expanding Laterally
Subtitle: Son to mother: I’m a man, look how tall I am. Mother to son: Son, if you want to grow up then look both to your right and left before looking up. I really wanted to pinpoint one of the great aspects of networking. It became apparent to me after sitting down for dinner during a NY Tweetup… There was a table where 7 of us sat down and together we pooled... Read More
LATISM Trends at No.5
Subtitle: Trending LATISM I never believed in success at first try. Other than being very lucky, success is a process and takes time. So, I’m comfortable and happy with LATISM being # 5 – one day LATISM will be numero uno. Thanks to the continued efforts to all the members on Thursday night’s Tweet Parties. AKPC_IDS += "1999,";Popularity: 4% [?] Read More
Looking for what’s not there
Subtitle: Carbon copies of carbon copies Imitating success is a great way to learn and implement a proven formula to better ensure your chances of reaching goals, especially if you’re breaking into a market and still have a learning curve to encompass. There are experts in every field who you can emulate and benefit from by learning from their mistakes and capitalize from... Read More
Uniqueness cannot be Learned
Subtitle: What makes you unique? People approach developing what makes them different (Your Personal Brand) in two ways: they look at what others are doing and modify it, or they stumble on an idea that nobody is doing, and hope to be successful. On the surface neither of these two techniques are necessarily wrong however, they are external ways of looking at things. You cannot... Read More
Confession of a Latino
Subtitle: Habla Espanol? Confession: Despite that I’ve been working within Latino social circles for many years, I am not fluent in the Spanish language. I DO have a working knowledge however… In an effort to improve my Spanish I’m taking time to study over the the summer in preparation for a vacation and to broaden my reach on and offline as well…also,... Read More
The Why Of ‘Latino Rebranded’
I’m not sure if I’ve ever posted the reason I made the transition from a Latino politics blogger to an active social media advocate within the Latino social media. So here we go… My original blog – LatinoPundit – served a purpose to fill a void of the lack of Latino bloggers. I wanted to bring Latinos into mainstream discussions about politics and... Read More
NSHMBA’s Social Media Night Out
I’ll be at NSHMBA’s social media panel June 30th, in New Rochelle, NY. Drop me a note if you can be there. Click below for more details: AKPC_IDS += "1892,";Popularity: 18% [?] Read More
Brushing Off The Dust
Subtitle: Avoiding Burnout. Since I’ve been very active and consistent in social media, I think I should supply an explanation of my absence – this blog, Twitter and Facebook. So here it goes… What I want to believe is that I’ve been busy with multiple projects, and would like to jot that down and be done with this post. But for those who know me,... Read More
Copies of Copies
Subtitle RE-RE-RE-RE-RE-Tweet Social media can get monotonous when everyone is doing the same thing. There are certain principles and techniques that do work, and caution to the brave? soul who dares to diverge. What I’m not talking about is quite different – be original, be yourself because there will never be another person like yourself. EVER! I wrote this... Read More
25 Personal Brand Manifestos (Re-post)
(This is a re-post of an oldie, but goodie…enjoy.) This would be a follow-up post to my “Is Your Brand Bull?” post. Via the BuzzBin: 1) The online community — a.k.a. the market — doesn’t give a damn about your personal brand. 2) The only people who give a crap about personal brands are the personas trying to prop them up as a business model. 3) While personal... Read More
When not to Fish where the Fish are
Subtitle: “Give me back that Filet O’ Fish, give me that fish.” There’s a common piece of advice to “fish where the fish are.” While no doubt this is a great short term strategy, but eventually the resource will dry up. Why? Because, soon enough everyone will start fishing in the same spot! There’s some recent data released by... Read More
Latinas in Social Media: Are they out there?
Subtitle: Are there Latinas in social media? You betcha! I am driven by We-media – content produced by the public – and am inspired when others share the same drive. A few of my online-cohorts are proposed speakers for a panel at the Blogher conference here in NYC. Latinas are one of the fastest growing segment of bloggers. In this session, you can understand who... Read More
