Signs of a Blogging Renaissance?
I’ve never given up on blogs…or email for that matter. Blogs have a solid foundation in social media and fits in perfectly where other channels like Facebook and Twitter cannot fill (a special perk is that YOU own your blog – I can’t say that enough). Somewhere, somehow blogs became less sexy in pop-culture. I can understand why, but as social media matures there will be more. Here are two new blogs that hit the pavement: The... 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 ruled the blogosphere, but as more women started to blog maybe the view... Read More
Google Buzz Fragments Your Blog’s Comments
With the announcement of Google Buzz, I’ve been thinking a lot about the Comments feature in blogs. I don’t want to say that Buzz is necessarily bad for blogs, but it can de-augment a very powerful pillar of blogging – the Comments section. Let me back up a little. In October, I talked about the importance of publishing your content on a blog that you own versus a social media site like Facebook or Twitter. I subtitled the post... Read More
Latino Blogs At Blogworld
Subtitle: Upward and Cross Connections As you may know, my roots are in the blogsophere, so it’s great to see continuing progression. Latino blogs moving in upper and cross-lateral directions is great stuff. BlogWorld 2009 had the innovative idea of hosting a multicultural panel. A clear sign of vision and pulse of the current situation in the U.S.A. I had the honor to be invited by Jose Villa from Sensis to represent the fastest growing... Read More
Latino Gold Rush
Subtitle: Here Come The Marketers My eyes, ears and mouth were sealed shut. It’s interesting to see how businesses and marketers are now paying attention to previously ignored niche networks. By this I specifically mean low-income demographics and urban communities. There is an entire “sub-culture” of bloggers / twitterers complete with celebrities and household names I had never heard of! I’m sure this experience will reverberate... Read More
Q&A: Blogging and LATISM
I did a Q&A for FH Hispania Plaza, which was published yesterday. They were interested in Latinos In Social Media and blogging. MF: How much Latino presence do you think there is currently on the blogosphere? (…)With all the hype about Twitter and Facebook in the news these days I see little attention given to blogs as opposed to a few short years ago when blogs were all the rage. Don’t feel sad for blogging though, because blogs... Read More
