Tweet This article originally appeared on MediaPost. This fall, Coca-Cola launched an educational marketing initiative with the goal of helping Hispanics fulfill their dream of learning English. This is an important customer base as Hispanics represent one quarter of Coke’s domestic U.S. sales. To launch the program, Coke partnered with Lexicon Marketing, the developer and marketer of Inglés sin Barreras (English without Borders), the video-based English learning program in the U.S. Reinaldo Padua, assistant vice president of Hispanic Marketing at Coca-Cola North America recently explained

Tweet Bob Liodice, the president of the ANA, shared these “10 Musts for the Future of Marketing” during his opening presentation at the ANA Multicultural Conference last month. It’s a good list to review as we evaluate what we accomplished in 2009 and plan our goals for 2010.

Tweet Scott Monty gave an insightful keynote presentation at the OMMA conference last week about how Ford uses social media to listen and respond to its customers.  Check out his presentation below and their Fiesta Movement social media site where 100 “agents” document their 6-month trial of a Ford Fiesta via Flickr, Twitter, blogs, etc. Zero to 60: Social Media Strategy via Ford [Keynote - OMMA Global 2009] View more presentations from Scott Monty.

Tweet Recently, I had the opportunity to lead a panel at Portada’s Latin Americal Pan-Regional Advertising Summit about new ways of reaching Latin Americans online. My fellow panelists Alex Banks of ComScore, Igal Rubinstein of S.com.mx, Vinicius Losacco of Warner Bros. Pictures, and Giacomo Bertaina of McCann Worldgroup delivered the following presentations followed by a discussion: Reaching Latin Americans Online View more OpenOffice presentations from Joe Kutchera. For those of you who haven’t signed up for SlideShare.net, take a look. Very useful way to share

Tweet Franklin Vargas, Director Latin American Marketing at Genius presented the pros and cons of the Panregional Media Buy from the perspective of a large IT company at Portada’s Panregional Advertising Summit in Miami. See his slide here that summarizes his conclusions. Even though he presented the pros and cons equally, many attendees did not like his presentation because it challenged the concept of pan-regional advertising, for which Miami is a hub. Pros: 1) Good fro massive reach 2) More strategy and brand control 3)

Tweet My friend Pablo Slough shared this funny yet painfully true video…

Tweet My friend David Berkowitz told me about a new white paper that his agency – 360i – recently launched: 2009 Social Marketing Playbook. It highlights four questions that all marketers should ask when putting together a social marketing campaign: 1) Does the opportunity meet your brand’s objectives? 2) Does the opportunity leverage your brand’s existing arsenal of assets? 3) Does the opportunity abide by the social media rules of the road? 4) Does it provide significant value exchange? In addition, the playbook features social

Tweet My friends at OnMilwaukee.com recently invited me to speak at their event at the Eisner Museum of Advertising & Design: What’s Next in Marketing. We had a great turnout with 60+ marketers and agency-side folks attending the event. Our goal was to highlight how interactive marketing works, share successful case studies and encourage local marketers and agencies to increase their investment in interactive marketing. The feedback so far has been positive. The event originally came about as a result of Jeff Sherman, OnMilwaukee’s founder/president

Tweet Well here is a Catch-22 of social media.  AdAge reported that Ted McConnell, general manager-interactive marketing and innovation at P&G, questioned Facebook‘s potential as a marketing platform saying “What in heaven’s name made you think you could monetize the real estate in which somebody is breaking up with their girlfriend?” And also this week, the Mommy mini-bloggers of Twitter criticized Motrin’s new marketing message so harshly that McNeil Consumer Healthcare pulled the entire media campaign because of the criticism on the mini-blogging site. So,

Tweet This article originally appeared on iMediaConnection. If there’s one buzzword that has spread like wildfire through the entire media business in the last five years, it is blogs. Universal McCann’s global “Power to the People” Social Media Tracker study says that “blogs are a mainstream media worldwide and as a collective rival any traditional media,” with 73 percent of respondents saying they have read a blog. The majority of the 184 million blogs worldwide are of the personal nature, according to Universal McCann’s study, and