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/ …

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 …

MarketingLatinos caught up with Arik Renee Avila at the premier of his new movie entitled “Upon a Midnight Clear”.
Arik is well known in the anime industry for his animated movie shorts but has also done interactive movies at Walt Disney World’s Epcot Center, and other projects with Sony, Motorola, Lennox, Compaq, IBM and AMD. (just to name a few).
Be sure to follow this rising latino as he makes his mark in the cinematic arena with his new release Upon a Midnight Clear.
You can follow Arik Avila on Facebook or check …

I’ve been paying a lot more attention to the social media space down south of the US border and beyond.
For the most part, it appears that social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook and making some decent inroads into Latin America.
No, I do not have empirical data for you to use to verify my assertion, all I have is anecdotal data from seeing more and more people tweeting in Spanish and seeing more and more of my family members on Facebook.
I realize that this is not a representative sample, but …

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 …

That’s right folks, now you can get real time searches on Google itself. No more messing around with Twitter Search when trying to get the score of a game or when trying to get updates from someone attending a conference or when trying to get traffic updates.
What does “Real Time” mean?
Google is defining “Real Time” as “a few seconds ago.” So, as soon as something is published on twitter or anywhere else, it’ll show up in the search results. Google plans to add updates to the real time search results …

We’ve been doing a lot more work with video for clients here at Marketing Latinos. We’ve started branching out into political videos for local candidates besides the usual promotional videos for people.
To say that it’s been a learning experience would be an understatement.
The entire political realm is something that fascinates me from the spectator side but now also from the content producing side as well. More on that in a future post since the point of this post is to answer a common client question.
Lots of potential clients always ask …

This is one that I didn’t quite get my head wrapped around until recently. Although they have similar functionality, there are small but significant differences between a Facebook fan page and a Facebook group page.
First, let’s look at how they’re similar:

Both types of pages allow you, and other people, to express their affinity for something. Be it dogs, planes, a person, celebrity etc.
Both allow you to setup forums and have discussions
Both have a wall for posts and allow sharing pictures and videos
Both allow you to message members in bulk
Both allow …