Sara Inés Calderón Steps Down As NewsTaco Editor

Sara Inés Calderón Steps Down As NewsTaco Editor

Mary Mata April 3, 2012

NewsTaco has been a tremendous adventure for me. And as with all adventures, there comes a time when they must end. So with this post I am announcing that I […]

Pinterest: When Technology Moves Too Fast For Bloggers

Mary Mata March 23, 2012

By Melissa Pitts A couple of weeks ago Chow.com published an article on the popularity of Pinterest among food bloggers — and the pitfalls, namely copyright problems. The article mentioned […]

How To Get More Latinos At South By Southwest

Mary Mata March 22, 2012

The South By Southwest festival in Austin Texas just wrapped up, and as one of the Latino-centric news outlets that covered the conference and its three different components — interactive […]

Bien Hecho: Latina Teacher Helps Immigrants Surpass Digital Divide

Mary Mata March 20, 2012

Computers and the internet have become such a normal way of life for so many people, most of us can’t imagine our day-to-day lives without going online or using our […]

Online Buying For Latinos: A $25 Billion Market

Mary Mata March 12, 2012

Descuento Libre is a discount website that has been working to break into the Latino market since its launch in 2011. At a panel Monday at South By Southwest in […]

Brazil’s “Iron Lady” Humanized Through Digital Campaign

Mary Mata

By Jessika Gomez-Duarte In the the SXSWi panel “How Digital Softened Brazil’s Iron Lady” Andrew Paryzer, Director of Accounts at Blue State Digital, shared the story of Dilma Rousseff’s 2010 presidential campaign – which not […]

Immigration, LGBT Advocates Telling Their Stories Digitally

Mary Mata March 11, 2012

Immigration and LGBT advocates spoke about the ways in which they utilized digital media to organize around their issues and campaigns at the Still Invisible? Waging Stories with Social Media […]

Startups Exploding In Latin America Due To The Middle Class

Mary Mata

By Armando Rayo Today at the SXSWi Panel: Accelerating Killer LatAm Startups, Panelists Pedro Torres Picón, David Weekly, Carolina Rossi and Yang shared some interesting insights on the entrepreneurial trends […]

Social Media, Comedy Have The Power To Change The World

Mary Mata March 10, 2012

Comedian and author of “How to be Black” Baratunde Thurston gave a keynote speech to a packed crowd at South By Southwest Interactive Saturday afternoon. The gist of his speech was, […]

Being An Agent Of Change In Colombia

Mary Mata

By Armando Rayo This SXSW coverage is sponsored by Univision News.  Panelists: Andrés Traslaviña & Daniel Medina Great panel discussion regarding how social media has allowed citizens to engage in the […]