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 …

Have you ever wondered how to take your long facebook url and turn it into something short and easy to remember?
With the advent of custom urls this little trick may prove moot, but here it is anyway.
Actually, this little trick could still come in handy if you’re trying to brand your homepage as the hub for everything, related to you/your brand/ your business so read on.
If you do not have a custom url for your facebook profile, or you have a facebook fanpage with less than 25 members, then you …

I put together a video for my quickwordpress.com site about how to add a facebook badge to your website.  It’s a very straight forward process, that for some reason is really hard to figure out on your own.  Here’s the link to the video:

I’ve got some more content for my website creation and promotion site coming down the chute, so join over there for more tutorials for getting your own website up and running using wordpress.

It looks like Facebook has done an about face and changed their Terms of Service back to what they used to be.
Yesterday, the CEO of Facebook, went out and tried to explain what they meant by the changes that they put into their TOS.  The thing is, after seeing Zuckerberg’s explanation on the Facebook blog, I can understand what they were trying to do, I just don’t like the language that they used.
Folks, I also agree that if you really want privacy, then don’t put anything on the internets, like …