communication - Raul Colon - photographer, digital marketer & writer living on the beach in Puerto Rico.

Thin Line between Holiday Wishes & Spam

These past few days I have been receiving a variety of holiday greetings ranging from individuals and/or companies. I always get excited when people send me holiday greetings. However although there might be exceptions when I see it is for an email of a company to send a general corporate email to possible clients or…

New Changes Have Increased My Activity on Facebook

Facebook made some recent changes in line to keep the platform fresh some might think they just want to confuse people and a little bit of both usually happens. I saw the new layout and was really happy of some of the changes. Now I can subscribe to people’s feeds without having to friend them…

Localization & Globalization Can Cause a Loss in Translation

In many occasions you have various companies dealing with issues because they set up their website as a global effort without taking into consideration how different even one language can be for many individuals. I Thought I Gave you a Compliment? When I was in the U.S. Army I remember visiting Honduras and El Salvador…

Being Reminded by Juanga that I’m a Role Model

I have been observing Juanga for the last few months on how he will not eat unless I sit down to eat. I literally have to sit down and eat at the dining table so Juanga can follow along and eat his food. Being that Juanga is family (more like my 4-legged son) I worry…

Defining Influence with 3 Key Questions

I see how many people try to measure the influence of themselves and other individuals. Online their are various tools which measure influence. I have tried many with the purpose of understanding how they measure influence. The problem with many of these tools measuring influence with numbers, re-tweets, twitter follows, blog subscriptions, and many others.…