There is a growing backlash movement directed at Facebook over their apparent lack of concern about their user’s privacy. People are either not happy about, or not entirely understanding, what the new changes mean. Specially, the part about how by default, “everything” is social.
Facebook’s most recent changes to their privacy policy are just another milestone in their efforts towards world domination. I do not agree, nor do I believe the assertion that Facebook is merely matching what their user base is demanding.
I just have a hard time believing that users/ …

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has joined Twitter. Not because he wants to connect with his supporters or try to win over his detractors. Chavez joined, because he said he would, and that’s it.
I doubt that we’ll see much interaction between him and his followers. He’s got 16,000+ followers as of this writing, and he’s following 5 people back.
Welcome to the party President Chavez. Pay attention to what I’m about to tell you:
I hope that you’ll listen to your detractors instead of trying to throw them in jail. You can learn …

Joanna Shields, who was instrumental in Bebo’s sale to AOL for $850 million in 2008 has joined Facebook as head of EMEA operations. Technically, she’ll be vice-president of sales and business development for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Photo Credit: AIB London
The current vp of EMEA, Blake Chandlee, was the first Facebook employee in London. He will be vice-president of sales for emerging markets. He will focus on Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
I’m not sure how he will manage the Latin American market for Facebook from Europe, but …

Este articulo esta basado en un articulo en Ingles, que se publico en esta pagina.
Estos son 9 temas de social media que se tienen que acabar. Se tienen que acabar por que son cosas fastidiosas. Algunas no tienen mas uso, y otras, necesitan ser usadas mejor.

Obtener mas seguidores o fanaticos.
Al menos que me puedas decir por que diablos quieres mas seguidores, por favor deja ya con el fastidio. Si no vas a hacer nada con tus seguidores, para que los quieres? A caso que la gente son como estampillas que …

Finally got the video small enough that we could get it up on the video server for y’all to watch. I had to compress it to such a point that it’s a bit grainy, but ironically, this audio is a little better than the audio recording that I posted earlier this week.
This video is from the 2010 South by Southwest Interactive panel discussion “Austin: Latino Internet Capital of the World.” Featured in the video are Cindy Casares, and Fidel Martinez from Guanabee.com and other local speakers. Watch the video, …

Chelsea came and joined Vicki Flougher and I at the MarketingLatinos table at the BATHH (Big A$$ Twitter Happy Hour) and introduced us to the “fist pound.”
Clever thinking!

Scott Allen sat down at the Marketing Latinos table at the Twitter Happy Hour on Thursday evening.  Listen to what he has to say to Alejandro Barrera,  about the concepts of the virtual Handshake.

This weekend, and up until Tuesday, we’ll be at South by Southwest Interactive media conference. There will be sporadic updates from the event, possibly pictures, videos, etc.
Last night, I had a great conversation with Scott Allen, Fernando Labastida and Alex Barrera. We talked about social media in Spanish and how come there’s not a lot of content being produced in Spanish that is actually useful. I have a lot of video from that conversation, I think we can have that posted sometime soon.

Go here to see a list of SXSWi …

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 …