Clout about Klout
Subtitle: What you talking about Willis?!? There’s been some back and forth about Klout. And just what is Klout? From their website: Klout identifies influencers on topics across the social web. I believe the consensus is that any score above 40 is deemed desirable, and although there is some satisfaction when reaching this plateau, the validity of Klout’s confirmation... Read More
National Hispana Leadership Institute #NHLI
Subtitle: Support our Latina leaders today Today on Twitter (and in Miami, Florida), the National Hispana Leadership Institute is having their annual training and award conference. You can follow tweets from our Latinas in attendance by following #NHLI. Congrads to Maria Isa and all other Latinas who received and award: MariaIsa @@MariaIsa Just received the #NHLI Rising... Read More
Twitter Venn: Mexicans beat Latinos and Hispanics
Subtitle: Comparing ethnicity terms with Twitter Venn It’s been almost 9 months since I did the first comparison on Twitter Venn for Latino + Hispanic + Mexican to prove that the term Latino is preferred over Hispanic with users on the web (Hispanic is preferred in the ‘real’ world). The study was to see what term was being used more on Twitter – Latino... Read More
Best Tweets from Socially Diverse Presentation
Subtitle: Crib notes on the #PRSA International Conference Natalie Tindall couldn’t stay for the entire PRSA International Conference, but luckily she was able to keep abreast on the session via Twitter by following #PRSA_IC. Here are some very informative tweets she collected: stephnewton Stephanie Newton If you want to reach other markets, you have to surround yourself... 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
Twitter Stats from LatAm
Subtitle: Laitnos in social media kicking butt in LatAm. Latinos from both sides of the American hemisphere are devouring social media. Check out the latest bullish graphs and read on… Mas: You can find them on Twitter by following #latism #latam #latino #hispanic AKPC_IDS += "1903,";Popularity: 14% [?] Read More
Latinos Online to AZ: We are Latino 2
LATISM embraces how Latinos are using social media in response to recent Arizona laws. Check out the LATISM site for details on how you can get your ribbon and the Twitter party tonight. AKPC_IDS += "1883,";Popularity: 11% [?] Read More
Why more Visits on Facebook is not Important
Subtitle: Levels of Truth in Data Representation of Social Networking Sites The recent data by HitWise that rated social networking sites, ranks Facebook as #1 with 50% traffic, and Twitter as #5 with a mere 1% is a perfect example of a data presented at a certain level of truth, leaving questions at all other levels. 1. Facebook 50.15% 2. YouTube 15.21% 3. MySpace 15.08% 4. Tagged 1.16% 5. Twitter 1.14% Here... Read More
Only 4% of messages on Twitter are in Spanish
Subtitle: Half the tweets on Twitter are in English A study done by Semiocast (.pdf), reveled language usage on Twitter over a period of 48 hours in February, 2010. The study found that most language used was English at 50% from English speaking countries and non-native English speaking users. Other languages that were tallied – Japanese (14%), Portugese (9%), Malay (6%)... Read More
Mexico To Ban Twitter?!?
Subtitle: A few bad apples spoil the bunch. The Mexican government is up in arms against ‘Twitteros’ who use Twitter that warn others against drunk driving checkpoints – “alcoholimetro.” But what really has those on the good side of the law angered is the blatant use of social networks by drug traffickers and other criminals. Thus the “Spanish... Read More
Social Media Literacy
Subtitle: WYB – Watch Your Back in social media!!! As netizens connect and grow, so do more unsavory individuals look to take advantage of those communications. Having a background in technology, I’ve seen many cases of users unknowingly causing computer problems which easily could of been prevented if they new more about the computer environment. With this in mind,... Read More
Kids + Media = Lots of Hours
Subtitle: Media devours youth. Sometimes studies confirm what we all already know. As you can tell, I wasn’t surprised by much of the information below, but I know it’s newsworthy for some. A new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows a “dramatic” rise in the amount of time children and teens spend using entertainment media, “especially... Read More
Census To Use Grassroots & Social Media 2010
Is anyone surprised? Are you still one to think social media won’t work? Well then, read up: Social media and a national road tour are part of the plan to drum up interest. The campaign will stress the importance and secrecy of the count. This shows the further use and maturity of social media. (Not that I thought they would succeed, but this further strengthens my belief... Read More
Social Media Solves Project Personnel
Subtitle: Filling in the ranks w/ the power of social media. People often ask me how I select people or pick teams. Honestly, with social media so big that when I need help either via volunteers or partners I look to various social media portals by making an announcement of intent and asking if there’s any interest. So, I haven’t hand picked any teams, but do pick... Read More
The LISTA Social Media Panel Goes On Video
My good pal Julito (@julito77) took a video of the panelists that participated at LISTA event last week. Take note of the #vivaviernes and #latism tags. AKPC_IDS += "893,";Popularity: 4% [?] Read More
