Yes, I called Latino social media an industry. The efforts of many individuals groups and interest from outside the community is shaping a fledgling but formidable business area.
WaPo: Hispanics trail other groups in Web usage, confidence
There's a new report from the research arm of WaPo, which states that the use of the web from Hispanics are lower than the general population. This seemingly conflicts with other reports that states Hispanic usage of the web is actually higher than the rest of the population.
The problem comes in when you are speaking to different generation levels in the Hispanic population. I'll be writing about this today. If finished I'll post later today. Stay tuned.
Hispanicize.com
...is live and in Beta. Go visit the website for articles on Latino Social Media and help us find some bugs.
#Hispz Twitter Party
The largest and most quality produced Latino social media conference, supported by the Hispanic Pr and marketing industry (as well as the general market - AdWeek and MediaWeek are partners) comes out in April, 2011.
Even though we mean business, we still care about our community and want to make sure all Latino bloggers go. We gave away 2 free tickets to the conference during last night's Twitter party. More free pass giveaways and contests are on the way (and if you're already a blogger and want to ensure your attendance there is a discounted blogger's rate).