While doing research for my book – Latino Link – I ran into one of my old co-workers and friends by happenstance, Tamara de Anda, during a trip to Mexico. Here we are at Café de Carlo in the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City. She is one of my favorite bloggers/tweeters...
So often, when friends learn that I speak Spanish, they tell me, “oh yeah, I studied Spanish in high school but I don’t remember anything. I’m not good at learning languages.” If I could have a nickel every time I heard that, I think I’d...
Following is a preview of Latino Link: Building brands online with Hispanic communities and content: While having a very American lunch of cheeseburgers and milk shakes, my goddaughter Madeline (above), and her brother Ricardo (pictured below), asked me, “so, what’s...
This article originally appeared in Yorokobu, a Madrid-based marketing and design magazine, in December, 2009. [And it’s translated from the Spanish by yours truly and appears in my book, Latino Link] by Pedro Mujica, CEO of interactive map consultancy wecolab...
This article originally appeared on MediaPost and is a preview of Latino Link: Building brands online with Hispanic communities and content from Paramount Books. The new report from the Pew Hispanic Trust — Latinos Online — shows that 64% of all U.S....
This article originally appeared on MediaPost and is a preview of Latino Link: Building brands online with Hispanic communities and content from Paramount Books. After reading Felipe Korzenny’s and Lee Vann’s column about Hispanics’ adoption of...
This article originally appeared on MediaPost and is a preview of Latino Link: Building brands online with Hispanic communities and content from Paramount Books. When Facebook’s director of sales in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Blake Chandlee, presented at...
Following is a preview of Latino Link: Building brands online with Hispanic communities and content from Paramount Books. Scott Heiferman, now famous for starting MeetUp.com, and Adam Seifer launched Fotolog, a leading photo sharing site, in 2002 as an online...
See below for a great diagram/illustration from David Gray about language, about which he says: “Language is more than just communication; it is the primary method by which we do things together. Language is the accumulation of shared meaning – of common...