In my podcast about Latin America and social media, I touched on the question of broadband and mobile phone access being a factor in the increasing profile of Latin American countries in the social media space.
Unbeknownst to me, other outlets were talking about the increasing penetration of smart phones in Latin America.
According to Cellular News, there are over 500 million people in Latin America that have mobile phones. According to that same article, more than 91% of those phones use GSM and are on a 3G network.
There isn’t a hard …

As a general rule, most people, spammers included, want to avoid looking like spammers. Despite that, a lot of innocent people end up looking like spammers because they do spammy things.
Here are 3 things to do if you want to avoid looking like a spammer:

Avoid keyword stuffing. What does that mean? It means avoid putting too many of your keywords in your posts. You should also avoid having your key words close together. So, pay attention to the density of your target words to the rest of your …

One of the neat features of Facebook is that it lets you import RSS feeds into your fan pages. I’ll assume that you know what an RSS feed is and why you may want to publish it on your Facebook fan page.
There are 8 steps to importing your RSS feed into your Facebook fan page. Without further ado, here are the steps:
While logged in as an admin to your fan page:
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Something that I should mention, is that if people end up reading …

Today’s slideshare presenation is brought to you courtesy of Hubspot. They’re an inbound marketing firm based out of Boston, MA. I’m not selling anything from them, but I am working on my Hubspot inbound marketing certification.
Why am I working on a certification from Hubspot?
Because I like a lot of the things that they do as a company when it comes to inbound marketing.
Although I don’t entirely agree with everything that they point out in this slide presentation, I do think that there’s value in the thoughts expressed.
I …

I subscribe to Tech Republic emails, mainly for my regular job, but also because I’m a geek and enjoy reading geeky things. Anyway, one of the topics that I get Tech Republic emails about are  employment and HR issues.
In one of those HR related Tech Republic emails, they were talking about how employers could be held liable for making employment decisions based on social networking profiles.
In the discussion forum about the topic, people were arguing for both sides.
One camp was arguing that information posted in the public domain, such …

MarketingLatinos presents this video clip taken on December 3, 2009 at the Kyle Chamber of Commerce Ambassador BASH. The bash is a local networking event open to the public. We shot this video using natural lighting on a Kodak Zi8.

In this clip, Vince Collier talks about his passion for bringing Austin Community College (ACC) to the Hays Consolidated School District. For more information about the cause, visit http://accessyes.net .

http://marketinglatinos.com presents this video clip taken on December 3, 2009 at the Kyle Chamber of Commerce Ambassador BASH. The bash is a local networking event open to the public. We shot this video using natural lighting on a Kodak Zi8

There are a few more clips to follow from this event that we’ll be posting in the upcoming days.

A week or so ago, I participated in the “Great Interview Experiment.” This is the interview that came out of that post. Before we get to the actual interview, I want to thank Marla for playing along with me.
I liked this whole interview thing, so methinks I’ll do an interview every month or something like that. Without further ado, here’s the interview:

1. How long have you been blogging?
I started my first blog at the end of July of this year, so that makes it to be a little over …

I stole this concept from a blogger in the ICLW group. Actually, I stole the entire post, but I like the concept and I told them that I was stealing it too, so does that count as not stealing?

My biggest fear, is that no one will comment, thereby stopping this little experiment dead in it’s tracks. I’d like to do the interview in a podcast rather than on a blog post, but I’ll leave that up to you.
Anyway, here’s the point of all this:
Citizen of the Month is doing The …

The second part of this question is: I speak Spanish.
There are a lot of people that think they speak Spanish. There are a lot of people that think they can read and write in Spanish too. So you give your friend some text to translate for you. I present this sign, seen at the “Painted Horse Pavilion” just outside of Kyle.

As you can see, the Spanish version of the sign leaves much to be desired. Seriously, if you’re going to translate something this poorly, don’t bother translating it.
If you want …