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I’m extremely honored to be listed as a “Rising Star” among other great Latino innovators.

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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 hold their own.  Blogs are ubiquitous, and can be found linked to from all social media portals.  They are the tenacious opinion-platforms of individuals who seek to elaborate and communicate their point of view freely and unrestricted.  If that’s not social media, I don’t know what is.

Thanks Maribel.

These days, I’m all about networking and connecting.  One great connection I made was with Miguel (@cumba), who’s a digital content provider and ‘gets’ social media.  He came to the first Meetup in NY and we talked about video production and shared each others vision.

He’s really great at what he does, and has the ability to embrace exactly what a client describes and delivers.  You can read more about our collaboration over at his blog. I’m going to cut to the chase and show the videos he produced from our discussions.

These videos were produced for the Latinos In Social Media group.

#LatISM Twitter party

This pic is awesome.  Special thnaks to @tiabel (her blog). And if want to know how to throw a great #latism Twitter party then follow these 10 tips.

Click on the pic to view some of the leaders that are bringing you these great parties giveaways and networking opportunities, and the Latinos In Social Media ‘Heritage Tour’ : @anarc @urbanjibaro @latism @tiabel @nancyperez and yours truly – @louispagan.

It is great to see the creativeness and passion that fellow Latinos have for social media and their culture.

I love this so much, that over on the Facebook group, I’ve made it into a discussion thread. Go there to see more examples of what Latinos are doing with #latism.

How an where do you use/find #latism? Here are two places that I found:

http://twitpic.com/d00xg @tibel
http://blip.fm/~bafo7 @LatinJazzMecca

If you stare at the twitpic and listen to blip at the same time you get real Chillaxed!

What about you?

Latinos In Social Media

If you missed it, you missed a unique event. Thursday night, my partners and I kicked off the first Latinos In Social Media Twitter Party. We gave away about $500 in prizes. It was a nice way to introduce ourselves and promote out event – The Latinos In Social Media Heritage Tour.

Most of us used TweetChat (using the hashtag #latism) to follow the discussions. If you want to read the dialogue, go to hashtags.org.

Let me tell you, Latinos do not know how to act – and I mean this in a good way.  It was apparent to the organizers that most people were more interested in networking and chatting than the actual prizes. This is very different behavior than in regular Twitter Parties.

Some of the discussions went like this: Sorry if I can’t reply to everyone. This is getting like a typical Loud Latino Party. They’ll call the cops on us! LOL #latism @anarc and, RT @auntchrisbronx @ChicMom I want me some chicharron!!! #latism // cuchifrito time! Others were true networking attempts
@lisagarciaruiz It’s only 7:30 here in CA I’m just getting started! Anyone else from Southern Cal here??? and, @jbrewz @Jaydieli unofficial #latism party DJ here…by request from jaydieli http://song.ly/txxk — Any ruby on rails programmers in the house?

Love my Latinos!  The party went way past the allotted 1 hour, people would not let go.  I myself could not hang past some night owls.  It was great; everyone agreed that it was fun and empowering.  Hope I see everyone there again and even more Tweeples!