How to Stop Twitter from updating Facebook

I’m pretty active in social media.  The main platform I use is Twitter.  My challenge was staying relevant across each medium spectrum that I wanted to remain relevant. So, when the ability to seamlessly integrate Twitter and Facebook (as well as LinkedIn), I jumped at the opportunity.  Problem was, Facebookers are a different ‘monster’ than the Twitter crowd. “You... Read More

Reposting the Past: Latino Paradox on Huffington Post

Subtitle: What goes around, comes around…and comes around again…and again. Last week, I came across an article in the Huffington Post that surprised me:  Unraveling the Latino Paradox.  It was not the topic, or the website where the story ran that I caught my attention, but that I wrote about this exactly 3 years ago. How can a topic that has existed since 1986 keep... Read More

Chilean Hashtags

Subtitle: #FuerzaMineros Hashtags on Twitter is a simple means of allowing others to chat with one another around a central topic. Recently, after 69 days of being trapped 2,000 feet underground,  33 Chilean miners were finally rescued.  And you can be sure there was a couple day’s worth of Twitter conversation routing on the event. There were a couple of more hashtags... Read More

“I drink your Milkshake! I drink it up!”

Subtitle:  Ask your questions on Net Neutrality This Friday, I’m having an interview with Jose Marquez, CEO of LISTA on net neutrality. Net Neutrality is a discussion about your stake in internet bandwidth.  In a nutshell, it addresses the issue of measuring the use of internet bandwidth one utilizes and applying a tiered rate based on that usage. There are proponents... Read More

Circumventing the Web via Google Alerts

Subtitle:  If Speedy Gonzalez read the web, you’d be sure he used Goolge Alerts. During an interview, I was asked an interesting question:  What are some of your favorite Latino sites? It made me think of how my use of the web changed over the years.  I used to admire well thought out sites, great logos and other visual cues…don’t get me wrong, I still do. ... Read More

My Calendar got an Upgrade

Subtitle: Scheduling a meeting shouldn’t take longer than actually having the meeting. The other day, I had a rude awakening that my current calendar set up was not working correctly, by having a wrong appointment entry. My time is important to me, so important that I stayed up to 1:30 AM on a Friday night, troubleshooting why my Blackberry Desktop Software was not syncing correctly... Read More

PR+MKTG CAMP Ticket Giveaway, NYC

latism LATISM partners w/ PR+MKTG CAMP Tonight on Twitter – well, there’s always a LATISM Twitter party going on Thursday nights – we’ll be giving away one ticket for the PR+MKTG Camp East for Thursday, October 28, 2010 from 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM. These tickets generally sell for $300 dollars. I have 3 to give away. And one is being given away tonight... Read More

Google Blacklists ‘Latina’ from Google AutoComplete

Interesting topic.  Honestly, I never thought about it.  Autofill in Google’s search field. Some, may be a bit enthralled by it all (link contains adult material), and yet others go along happily and search away. Google Instant is the latest incarnation of the search engine that fills in potential responses as you type them into the Google search bar. Some people think... 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

LATISM Latina Blogger Survey

Subtitle: A double underrepresented group gets represented. LATISM In an effort to represent a double underrepresented group (women + Latina) LATISM, gives us the very first 2010 Bloguera survey.  Here’s some key findings courtesy of WiredLatinos: Young:The largest group of respondents is between 30 and 39 Mothers: 83% has between 2 and 4 kids Heads of household: 70% is... Read More

What’s in the News?

A noticeable disappointing practice (arguable), is the  Google news search feature for latino social media: 90% of it is coverage of business and politics…not much of what YOU are doing in social media as individuals. I like what Cafe Media is doing…there is much more of a cultural vibe to what they report on.  Also, this is why such organizations such as LATISM is... 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

The PapiBlogger, Online and Off

I had the pleasure of meeting Manny Ruiz earlier this year.  From my first impression he seemed to be a stand-up guy, savvy business owner and a genuine family man.  Nothing Manny has done since has altered my opinion…actually the more he does the more he confirms my initial read on him. Manny successfully launched one of the largest Hispanic PR/Social media conferences... Read More

To Add Diversity To The Conference Circuit

My friend and colleague Kety Esquivel, wrote up a great post on The Huffington Post: For the last two years I have had the distinct honor and priviledge to be a panelist at SXSWi. Unfortunately, I have been one of the only Latino panelists and potentially the only Latina panelist….On the conference circuit, the response that I get often for this dearth of Latino and Latina... Read More