Posted by Elena del Valle on March 17, 2010
By Edward M. Bury, APR
Edward M. Bury, APR
Communicators today need to maximize every resource available to make sure messages reach their target audiences, and perhaps a few more. This is especially true in an era when online communications and social media continue to eclipse traditional print and broadcast media in many ways.
The social media news release (SMR) has emerged as an option to help communicators deliver messages effectively and efficiently without relying on the traditional or mainstream media. In short, social media news releases are a communications tool that lets groups, companies and organizations self-publish messages online. It’s a relatively new resource, but one that every communicator needs to understand and incorporate into public relations and marketing programs.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on March 15, 2010
Batista debut album cover
Brooklyn born singer song writer Batista must be feeling pretty good. Batista, his bilingual debut album, is due for national release by Wu Latino very soon. The New York artist of Dominican background described the album as having “scores fused with elements of tropical rhythms favoring bachata, as well as elements of pop/rock and U.S. urban tendencies.” The new recording has 12 tracks in Spanish and English. Scroll down to listen to Todos Unidos, a single from Batista’s album.
The music ranges from bachata, experimental, tropical, bolero and reggaetón. The first single released is the track Dame Tu Amor, a Spanish language variation of the classic Bee Gees hit How Deep is Your Love, rewritten and arranged to a bachata rhythm by Batista. Batista relies on traditional bachata instrumentation, electric guitar and bass, bongó and güira as well as technology via sequences and samples to modernize the bachata sounds, according to promotional materials. The single Todos Unidos was designed to be a tribute to Coldplay’s Viva La Vida.
Batista
“I follow the music, what’s in my heart; I write what I hear internally. One day my inspirations may direct me to write a romantic love song or a bachata and another time an R&B score or a more upbeat composition. It’s all about how I feel at the time and not about using a particular formula to create a song or bind myself to a specific style or form of music,” said Batista. “In this recording, most of the selections that I included are geared towards the tropical market and to the Latin world’s music audiences. In reality, this production is a tribute to my Dominican culture and the music of my parents, which is also a big part of me. As I continue to grow as a songwriter/singer, my other musical colors and flavors will surface, taking me to other stages in other markets.”
As a young man Batista built his own recording studio and learned about the business of music before becoming a producer for local artists. He was influenced he says, by rock, pop, urban and Latin genres and artists such as BonJovi, Inxs, Leo Dan, Camilo Sesto, Social Club and Juan Luis Guerra.
Although the album is not for sale yet,
Dame Tu Amor, a previously released single, which was in the top position on the pool charts for two weeks is available for purchase on iTunes.
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Todos Unidos from the
Batista album.
Posted by Elena del Valle on March 12, 2010
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Photos, video: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Our Family Wedding, a new Fox Searchlight Pictures film, opens today in theaters nationwide starting a black and Latino cast and a family theme. Some of the actors are America Ferrera, Carlos Mencia, Forrest Whitaker, Diana Maria-Riva, Regina King, Anjelah N. Johnson, Lupe Ontiveros, Taye Diggs, and Charles Q. Murphy. Scroll down to watch a video with film premier highlights and film moments.
Marcus (Lance Gross) and Lucia (America Ferrera)
Lucia (America Ferrera) and Marcus (Lance Gross) are newly engaged. As they plan their union they learn the hard way that the path to the wedding involves family related challenges. Saying “I do” can be rife with familial strife. According to promotional materials, their fathers (Forest Whitaker and Carlos Mencia), two highly competitive men with big egos, stand between them and their special day.
Lucia’s mother (Diana Maria Riva) is busy planning the wedding of “her” dreams. Only Angela (Regina King), the groom’s father’s best friend and lawyer manages to keep her cool when the madness reaches a crescendo.
The film was directed by Rick Famuyiwa from an original screenplay by Wayne Conley and Malcolm Spellman and Rick Famuyiwa with story by Wayne Conley. It was produced by Edward Saxon and Steven J. Wolfe.
Posted by Elena del Valle on March 12, 2010
Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green
Jay Conrad Levinson, known for his 60 Guerrilla Marketing books, and Shel Horowitz, an environmental activist and marketer for more than 30 years, teamed up to write Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green Winning Strategies to Improve Your Profits and Your Plant ( Wiley, $21.95), a book about effective marketing with an environmental emphasis published this year. The book includes a Foreword by Stephen M.R. Covey, author, The Speed of Trust.
The 236-page softcover book, based heavily on Horowtiz’ Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First, is divided into three parts: The Way of the Golden Rule, The New Marketing Mindset, and Hands-On with Cooperative People Centered Marketing; discussed in 21 chapters. The authors start from the perspective that being environmentally friendly is what everyone seeks to do.
They promise to explain how readers can increase profits and lower costs by emphasizing ecologically sensitive and ethical policies; convert customers, suppliers and competitors into supporters; make business acquaintances joint-venture partners; and take advantage of social and traditional media to boost revenues and decrease advertising expenses.
Conrad Levinson has taught guerrilla marketing for ten years at the extension division of the University of California in Berkley. Prior to that he was senior vice-president at J. Walter Thompson, and creative director at Leo Burnett Advertising and in Europe.
Horowitz describes himself as an ethical and green marketing expert, book shepherd, writer, international speaker, consultant, community organizer, and frugalist. He is the author of the e-book, Painless Green: 111 Tips to Help the Environment, Lower Your Carbon Footprint, Cut Your Budget, and Improve Your Quality of Life-With No Negative Impact on Your Lifestyle.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on March 10, 2010
In the last few years, Americans (and others abroad) have witnessed the slow and painful breakdown of traditional print and broadcast media as the financial model that held up the media outlets became obsolete and a new one was not embraced well, quickly, efficiently, replaced with a better one or all of the above. While we wait for the dust to settle we rely on the media outlets and the journalists that remain to fill the large shoes of the many that are gutted or gone. That is a tall order. Now that they are teetering on the edge of disappearing, at least in some ways, many people have begun to realize how much they had come to rely on that news reporting in their daily lives.
Newspaper ad revenue took a nose dive a long time ago and doesn’t seem to be coming up for air any anytime soon. The industry had a 23 percent drop in ad revenue in the last two years, according to the State of the News Media 2009, a report about media in the United States. The researchers who prepared the report concluded that 20 percent or one of every five journalists working for newspapers in 2001 was no longer around by the end of 2008. They anticipated that journalist losses would be the worst in 2009. Other sources indicate this was the case.
In the newspaper segment alone more than 40,000 newspaper jobs were lost in 2009 and 21,000 were lost in 2008, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics quoted in a December 2009 article by Joe Strupp of Editorandpublisher.com. That loss was more than any single year in the past 10 years. The experience and contacts of dozens upon dozens of senior journalists may be disappearing before our very eyes. As of the end of 2009 many senior newspaper editors were no longer at their jobs, and in most cases no longer in the newspaper industry. Last year lone some of the losses included senior men and women from well known national and local publications such as USA Today, Newsday, The Star-Ledger, The Oregonian, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times and The Washington Times.
As media became fragmented and media executives searched for ad revenue to survive many lost touch with their audience. Local television stations shed news staff, saw falling, or for the lucky ones, flat ratings; and lost more revenue, 7 percent in an election year, according to the 2009 media report. Network news ad revenue fell and ratings dropped as well. Ethnic media too, which had shown signs of growth in the past, is now floundering. In 2008, the only shining light was cable news and many of those ratings increases dropped after the elections.
Meanwhile, in spite of the traditional media’s past disdain for online venues the audience has embraced new media and online media sources with a vengeance. In 2008, traffic to the top 50 news sites increased 27 percent and the number of people seeking news online went up 19 percent in two years. That could be the solution, some thought, except that the ad revenue did not follow the audience. Although two years ago ad revenue online grew about 30 percent per year two years in a row the ad revenue on online news sites stopped growing and continued declining in print.
Although nobody seems to know for sure some estimates place the revenue decline in the news industry at double previous numbers in 2008, the most recent year for which data seems available. There are those who believe the loss in revenue was even worse in network television. Last year was expected to be by far the worst all around.
The State of the News Media 2009 was the sixth edition of the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism annual report on the state of the news media in the United States. Among the more than three dozen readers and several researchers the 2008 analysis covered 69,942 stories in an effort to find out what news media covered that year. The total was divided into 7,350 newspaper stories, 6,539 online stories, 19,796 network television stories, 21,892 cable news stories, and 14,365 radio stories.
Posted by Elena del Valle on March 9, 2010
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On the cusp of Census 2010, this year’s theme is The Multicultural Media Ecosystem. We’re all grappling with enormous shifts in how, when, and where consumers interact with media brands. Blockbuster Census 2010 data will likely be even more transformative than Census 2000 for affirming that multicultural America is America, and multicultural media is American media. And it’s now multiplatform.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on March 8, 2010
Author Janet Fouts
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A podcast interview with Janet Fouts, author, Social Media Success (see California coach discusses social media basics) is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, Janet discusses social media issues based on her recently published book with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Janet, a seasoned entrepreneur, social media coach, author and speaker, co-founded Tatu Digital Media in 1996. She has been active in on-line community and web strategy for over 15 years. Her blog is JanetFouts.com.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on March 5, 2010
We Are Americans
William Perez, Ph.D., professor of education at Claremont Graduate University and an applied developmental psychologist, began interviewing undocumented students in 2006 to better understand their experiences growing up in the United States. To his surprise these students, part of a larger group of 3.1 million children and young adults whose immigration status in the country is illegal, exhibited a high percentage of civic involvement. He shared his findings and portions of the interviews with 16 undocumented students as well as four formerly undocumented students in a newly published book, We Are Americans Undocumented Students Pursuing the American Dream (Stylus Publishing, $22.50).
The 161-page book, published in 2009, is divided into five parts featuring the stories of high school, community college, and university students as well as college graduates, college graduates who were previously undocumented and a conclusion. He explains in the Conclusion that while 65,000 undocumented students graduate from high school in the United States every year, only one in five of these students is able to overcome the overwhelming odds to continue on to college.
He believes these undocumented students and their families are members of American society and should be granted legal status; that U.S.-born citizens have nothing to fear from these marginalized individuals and others who like them are impoverished in our nation. He advocates for the legal incorporation of undocumented youths and their families, indicating that for him it is a matter of “dignity and fundamental human rights.”
The book includes a Foreword by Daniel G. Solorzano, professor, Social Science and Comparative Education at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies of the University of California, Los Angeles in which he sides with Perez: “Professor Perez’s research provides persuasive evidence that the talent we lose when we exclude undocumented students is a devastating loss to the United States…”
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Posted by Elena del Valle on March 4, 2010
Ivette Mendez-Kelly, vice president, Sales and Distribution, Olympusat
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Tomorrow night, at 8 p.m. ET, TV Chile will launch a 24-hour telethon to raise what executives hope will be $27 million in funds to assist the victims of the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile February 27, 2010. In the United States, TV Chile is available in select Cablevision, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Suddenlink, Time Warner Cable and Verizon FiOS markets.
TV Chile plans to telecast the marathon commercial-free with live performances from Don Francisco, a TV personality, singer Ricardo Montaner and Tito Bambino, a reggaeton musician. The funds are being designated to build 30,000 emergency homes and buy relief supplies for those affected by the earthquake.
“We are honored, on behalf of TV Chile, to be able to provide an international platform to reach a millions of potential donors in the U.S.,” said Ivette Mendez-Kelly, vice president of Sales and Distribution for Olympusat’s Hispanic networks, in a press release. “Our hearts go out to our brothers and sisters in Chile who have been impacted by this unprecedented natural disaster.”
The Bank of Chile will collect the funds for the project. Supporters include El Hogar de Cristo (Christ’s Home), Un Techo para Chile (A Home for Chile), and the Fundación para la Superación de la Pobreza (Foundation to Overcome Poverty) and its program Servicio País (Country Service).
TV Chile is a family-oriented general entertainment television channel with 18 hours a day of live programming for Spanish speaking Latinos distributed across five continents. The company is based in Chile and programming is distributed in the United States, where it has an audience of about 500,000, by Olympusat. Formed in 1999, Olympusat, Inc. owns, operates and distributes independent linear and video on demand digital networks.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on March 3, 2010
By Martha Galindo
CEO and president, Galindo Publicidad Inc.
CEO and president, Galindo Publicidad Inc.
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Press releases are a great way to get some coverage from media outlets, in any language.They’re also a great way to break into new markets, especially foreign language ones. That’s a strategy more companies are starting to adopt. There are thousands of non-English language media outlets, and they offer a great opportunity for companies to get their message in front of a new audience.
The non-English U.S. market can be substantial. According to recent reports there are 2,453 unique U.S. Hispanic media outlets, including more than 1,200 print publications, and more than 1,000 TV and radio outlets and shows. There are also twenty AP-style wire services and news syndicates. In some cases these are the only media serving a particular Hispanic community. Any company with a product that fits this market would do well to send press releases to these key outlets.
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