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		<title>Social sites eclipse e-mail use</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social network sites such as Facebook and MySpace are now more popular than personal e-mail, finds a report. The Nielsen survey of users&#8217; habits found that 67% of all those going online were spending time at social network and blogging sites. Interest in the category is growing four times faster than the other top four [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Social network sites such as Facebook and MySpace are now more popular than personal e-mail, finds a report.</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Nielsen survey of users&#8217; habits found that 67% of all those going online were spending time at social network and blogging sites.</span></p>
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<p><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Interest in the category is growing four times faster than the other top four sectors, said the report. <span>In the UK one in every six minutes of the average web user is spent at a social site, it found.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">&#8220;Social networking has become a fundamental part of the global online experience,&#8221; said John Burbank, chief executive of Nielsen Online in a statement.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">&#8220;Social networking will continue to alter not just the global online landscape, but the consumer experience at large,&#8221; he said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Nielsen measures interest in categories by the percentage of the web audience that regularly visit such sites. The latest statistics suggest that 65.1% of web users use web e-mail but 66.8% are turning up at social network sites.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">This means, said Nielsen, that about one in every 11 minutes a web user is online is spent at one of the sites Nielsen counts in its &#8220;Member Communities&#8221; category which includes both blogs and social network sites.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Of these sites, Facebook has highest average time per user, found Nielsen.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The researchers also found that social networking sites are managing to reach a very broad swathe of web users. The fastest growing segment of users turning up and using social sites over the last year was among 35-49 year olds.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">In particular, the report noted, <strong>almost a quarter of Facebook&#8217;s users were known to be over 50 years old</strong>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">More and more people want to get at their favourite social network site and update via mobile, found Nielsen. In the UK the numbers of Britons looking at a social site via their phone was up 249%.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #888888;">Source: BBC</span></span></p>
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		<title>Hispanics social media marketing strategy &#8211; a must</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Target Latino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any company that comes in contact with online Hispanic consumers would be negligent not to include them in its social media marketing strategy. The focal point should be the identification of the technologies and social media channels that are a strategic fit. By Claudia &#8220;Havi&#8221; Goffan U.S.-based Hispanic consumers are significantly more likely to participate [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Any company that comes in contact with online Hispanic consumers would be negligent not to include them in its social media marketing strategy. The focal point should be the identification of the technologies and social media channels that are a strategic fit.</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">By Claudia &#8220;Havi&#8221; Goffan</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">U.S.-based Hispanic consumers are significantly more likely to participate in online social media than their non-Hispanic counterparts, making a social media strategy a must for any marketer wanting to reach this group online, according to a new report from Forrester Research Inc.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The research findings are as follows:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Online Hispanics are more involved and likely to listen to word-of-mouth:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;">69% of 3,000 online Hispanics are Spectators, meaning that they watch, read or listen to what others have created online. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;">Only 42% of non-Hispanics online are Spectators</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Online Hispanics are more active:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;">40% of online Hispanics have the highest level of online activity and are characterized as Creators, meaning that they take part in such online activities as blogging, publishing web pages and uploading audio and video. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;">Only 12% of non-Hispanics online consumers participate in these activities.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Online Hispanics have a higher level of “Influentials”:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">77% of online Hispanic adults take part in some sort of online social activity: Forrester characterized this group as influential, reporting that on average 60% tell friends and family about products that interest them.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Online Hispanics are brand-loyal:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">more than 70% of all Hispanics surveyed said they stay with brands they like, suggesting that marketers who successfully build relationships with them now will have advocates for the long term.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Why are Hispanics more predisposed toward online social networking?</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">First, Hispanics are customarily early adopters of entertainment technologies, and this corresponds online to the use of video, audio and other related social media technologies such as blogging.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;">Second, Hispanic culture emphasizes the group over the individual, therefore Hispanic consumers tend to look to others for advice or agreement on product choices.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: medium;">Third, according to research, “even though many U.S.-born Hispanic consumers prefer to use the Spanish language, many media publishers and marketers in the U.S. don`t offer this option. Social networking provides Hispanics with opportunities to fill that online gap by contributing their own Spanish-language content”, Forrester says.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Any company that comes in contact with online Hispanic consumers would be negligent not to include them in its social media marketing strategy. The focal point should be the identification of the technologies and social media channels that are a strategic fit.</span></p>
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		<title>25 social interaction metrics or how to measure your social media marketing campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Target Latino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Claudia &#8220;Havi&#8221; Goffan Social media has evolved into an every day way of interaction and communication for a large part of the population. And this evolution started in the last century when social media commenced amidst the original chats in chatrooms and blogs. The first blog was created in the late 1980&#8242;s: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/ and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: #888888;">by Claudia &#8220;Havi&#8221; Goffan</span></h2>
<p>Social media has evolved into an every day way of interaction and communication for a large part of the population. And this evolution started in the last century when social media commenced amidst the original chats in chatrooms and blogs. The first blog was</p>
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<p>created in the late 1980&#8242;s: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/ and it is still alive and well today. Online dating sites, also a part of social media, started with online chats and became famous in 1988 with the movie &#8220;You&#8217;ve Got Mail&#8221;. In 2008, one out of nine couples that got married that year, actually met online. It is expected that the U.S. online dating market will reach $932 million in 2011.</p>
<p>Companies are starting 2010 with sparkling new social media campaigns and everybody knows it&#8217;s about the engagement, right? So, how do we measure the effectiveness of your brand&#8217;s social media marketing campaigns?</p>
<p>The ultimate approach to social media marketing campaign measurement will look at the things that really matter: sales, profits, customer satisfaction and loyalty. But that may take some time and you need to know how to gage the effectiveness of your social media marketing campaign to see if you are headed in the right direction in order to meet those objectives. Therefore, I wanted to share with you 25 social interaction metrics of key performance indicators to use with your social media marketing campaign. This is not an exhaustive list neither it is listed by order of importance and each social media marketer needs to identify the ones that are most suited for them.</p>
<p>I hope you find them useful and that you feel free to share additional ones with us and with our readers.</p>
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<li><strong>CTR</strong></li>
<li><strong>Re-Tweets/Mash-ups/Re-posting</strong></li>
<li><strong>Bookmarks</strong></li>
<li><strong>Comments</strong></li>
<li><strong>Downloads</strong></li>
<li><strong>Email / newsletter subscriptions</strong></li>
<li><strong>Number of Fans/Followers</strong></li>
<li><strong>Feedback</strong></li>
<li><strong>Forward to a friend/Invite / Refer</strong></li>
<li><strong>Amount of Group activity/interaction</strong></li>
<li><strong>Number of downloads or widget installations</strong></li>
<li><strong>Key page post-activity</strong></li>
<li><strong>Ratings</strong></li>
<li><strong>Onsite Messaging</strong></li>
<li><strong>Posts</strong></li>
<li><strong>Number of Registered users </strong>(new / total / active / dormant / churn)</li>
<li><strong>Report spam / abuse</strong></li>
<li><strong>Reviews/ Testimonials</strong></li>
<li><strong>Social media sharing / participation </strong>(activity on key social media sites, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc)</li>
<li><strong>Tagging</strong> (user-generated metadata)</li>
<li><strong>Time spent on key pages</strong></li>
<li><strong>Time spent on site </strong>(by source / by entry page)</li>
<li><strong>Total contributors</strong> (and % active contributors)</li>
<li><strong>Uploads</strong> (add an item, e.g. articles, links, images, videos)</li>
<li><strong>Views</strong> (videos, ads, rich images)</li>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Claudia &#8220;Havi&#8221; Goffan Winner of the Publisher&#8217;s Multicultural Award Category: Best Multicultural Awareness Article What is life like in America for Hispanic Americans?  What are their thoughts and concerns about family, employment, education, religion, opportunities, and healthcare?  We asked Claudia Goffan, founder of Target Latino, an Atlanta based marketing and consulting firm specializing in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>by Claudia &#8220;Havi&#8221; Goffan</p>
<p><strong>Winner of the Publisher&#8217;s Multicultural Award Category: Best Multicultural Awareness Article</strong></p>
<p><em>What is life like in America for Hispanic Americans?  What are their thoughts and concerns about family, employment, education, religion, opportunities, and healthcare?  We asked Claudia Goffan, founder of Target Latino, an Atlanta based marketing and consulting firm specializing in the Hispanic market, to provide &#8220;The College World Reporter&#8221; readers with her own views from inside Hispanic America. Here is our interview:</em></p>
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<p>Q. </strong>Could you give us an inside look at Hispanic or Latino life?</p>
<p><strong>A.</strong> To fully understand the Hispanic market, you need to analyze it by country of origin, level of acculturation, age, sex, marital status and educational level. Although some generalizations can be made, they have to be understood as such and not as an answer to comprehending the culture.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s talk about some of the generalizations about the Hispanic culture. The very first one that comes to mind is about family being the first priority, the children are celebrated and sheltered and the wife usually fulfills a domestic role. Hispanics have a long Roman Catholic tradition and this usually implies quite a fatalistic outlook where destiny is in the hands of God. Latin American educational system is based on emphasis on the theoretical, memorization and a rigid and very broad curriculum. It follows the French schooling system and it translates into people who are generalists and look at the big picture as opposed to specialists, like in the U.S. Hispanics are highly nationalistic, very proud of long history and traditions.</p>
<p>Hispanics have difficulty separating work and personal relationships and are sensitive to differences of opinion. Hispanics fear loss of face, especially publicly and shun confrontation, where truth is tempered by the need for diplomacy. Title and position are more important than money in the eyes of Hispanic society. Etiquette and manners are seen as a measure of breeding and it follows an &#8220;old world&#8221; formality. Dress and grooming are status symbols whereas in the U.S. appearance is secondary to performance. The aesthetic side of life is important even at work.</p>
<p><strong>Q.</strong> Tell us about the purchasing power of the U.S. Hispanics?</p>
<p><strong>A. </strong>According to the University of Georgia&#8217;s Selig Center for Economic Growth in 2004 the nation&#8217;s largest minority group controlled $686 billion in spending. The community&#8217;s purchasing power comprises the world&#8217;s ninth biggest economy and it&#8217;s larger than the GNP of Brazil, Spain or Mexico. Hispanic purchasing power is projected to reach as much as $1 trillion by next year (2010) being the main drivers of the surge in Hispanic consumer influence the increasing education levels, labor force composition, household characteristics and accumulation of wealth. The fastest-growing occupational categories for Hispanics are higher paying managerial and professional jobs.</p>
<p><strong>Q.</strong> What about Hispanics&#8217; Healthcare Access?</p>
<p><strong>A. </strong>I will quote a new analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center that indicates that six-in-ten Hispanic adults living in the United States who are neither citizens nor legal permanent residents lack health insurance. According to this same study, the share of uninsured among this group (60%) is much higher than the share of uninsured among Latino adults who are legal permanent residents or citizens (28%), or among the adult population of the United States (17%). Hispanic adults who are neither citizens nor legal permanent residents tend to be younger and healthier than the adult U.S. population and are less likely than other groups to have a regular health care provider. Just 57% say there is a place they usually go when they are sick or need advice about their health, compared with 76% of Latino adults who are citizens or legal permanent residents and 83% of the adult U.S. population.</p>
<p>Overall, four-in-ten (41%) non-citizen, non-legal permanent resident Hispanics state that their usual provider is a community clinic or health center. These centers are designed primarily as &#8220;safety nets&#8221; for vulnerable populations and are funded by a variety of sources, including the federal government, state governments and private foundations, as well as reimbursements from patients, based upon a sliding scale (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2008).</p>
<p>The study also reports that some 37% of Latino adults who are neither citizens nor legal permanent residents have no usual health care provider. More than one-fourth (28%) of the people in this group indicate that financial limitations prevent them from having a usual provider &#8211; 17% report that their lack of insurance is the primary reason, while 12% cite high medical costs in general. However, a majority (56%) say they do not have a usual provider because they simply do not need one. An additional 5% state that difficulty in navigating the U.S. health care system prevents them from having a usual provider. According to Pew Hispanic Center estimates, 11.9 million undocumented immigrants were living in the U.S. in 2008. Three-quarters (76%) of these undocumented immigrants were Latinos.</p>
<p>Regarding health status, the study reports that the Latino population in the U.S. is relatively young, and Latino adults who are neither citizens nor legal permanent residents are younger still. Some 43% of adult Latinos who are not citizens or legal permanent residents are younger than age 30, compared with 27% of Hispanic adults who are citizens or legal permanent residents and 22% of the adult U.S. population.  The youthfulness of this population contributes to its relative healthiness.</p>
<p>About the Hispanic experiences in the Health Care System, the Pew reports that three-fourths (76%) of Latino adults who are neither citizens nor legal permanent residents report that the quality of medical care they received in the past year was excellent or good. This is similar to the proportion of adult Latino citizens and legal permanent residents (78%) who express satisfaction with their recent health care. However, when asked a separate question &#8211; whether they had received any poor medical treatment in the past five years &#8211; adult Latinos who are neither citizens nor legal permanent residents are less likely (16%) to report any problems than are Latinos who are citizens or legal permanent residents (24%).</p>
<p>Among those Latinos who are neither citizens nor legal permanent residents who report receiving poor medical treatment in the past five years, a plurality (46%) state that they believed their accent or the way they spoke English contributed to that poor care. A similar share (43%) believed that their inability to pay for care contributed to their poor treatment. More than one-third (37%) felt that their race or ethnicity played a part in their poor care, and one-fourth (25%) attributed the unsatisfactory treatment to something in their medical history.</p>
<p><strong>Q.</strong> What is the difference in viewpoint between young Hispanics or Latinos born and raised in the United States, and their older parents or grandparents who migrated to the U.S. from other countries?</p>
<p><strong>A.</strong> The one difference that applies to all Latinos existent between non and semi-acculturated Hispanics and fully-acculturated or U.S. born Hispanics (young or old) is that whereas the non and semi-acculturated Latinos are trying to learn how to navigate the American culture, the U.S. born Hispanics or fully-acculturated know how to navigate the American culture and &#8220;learn&#8221; to navigate the Hispanic one from their family.</p>
<p><strong>Q.</strong> Who are people on the rise in the Hispanic or Latino community that may become corporate leaders, or the next Sonia Sotomayor?</p>
<p><strong>A. </strong>There are many Hispanics on the rise in every walk of life in the United States. Some people may not even notice of their Hispanic background because it usually comes to light when there are political issues at stake. For example, a currently retired doctor that was the Director of Cardiology of the St. Joseph&#8217;s Hospital in Atlanta was originally from Argentina. The creative that many years ago came up with the successful campaign for a drug that put the country to sleep is a Nuyorican (Puerto Rican born in New York).</p>
<p>Regarding known Latinos on the rise, you may want to keep an eye on Christine Arguello, Judge, U.S. District Court, Colorado; Emiliano Calemzuk, President, Fox Television Studios; Ignacia Moreno, Counsel, Corporate Environmental Programs, General Electric Company; Esther Salas, U.S. Magistrate Judge, District of New Jersey; Thomas Saenz, President and General Counsel, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF); Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor; Rosa Gumatatotao Rios, United States Treasurer; Elena Rios, President &amp; CEO, National Hispanic Medical Foundation; Enrique Conterno; President, Eli Lilly, USA and Edward Chavez, Justice, the State of New Mexico Supreme Court, among many others.</p>
<p><strong>Q.</strong> What should everyone know about Hispanics or Latinos?</p>
<p><strong>A.</strong> The first thing that comes to mind is the very little known fact that 6 out of 10 Latinos are U.S. born.  The second one is that the younger the generation, the higher the percentage of Hispanics in it. It is imperative to understand the new U.S. demographics when developing business strategies, city planning, new products, etc.</p>
<p><strong>About Claudia Goffan: </strong><em>Recognized as an expert in Latino Marketing by CNN en Español, Claudia has been featured in Adweek, Hispanic Business, Univision, Telemundo and other national and international media.</p>
<p>A native from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Claudia has been very influential in the Hispanic markets in the U.S. and Latin America &#8211; both from a business and a community standpoint &#8211; always with outstanding results. Claudia has contributed to companies such as, The Occasions Group, The Taylor Corporation, El Banco de Nuestra Comunidad (A division of SunTrust Bank), XEROX, AT&amp;T, BellSouth, Citibank, Papa John&#8217;s, Liberty Mutual, British Telecom, Gold&#8217;s Gym, Sherwin Williams, and Verizon, among others.</p>
<p>A motivator, strategic and hands-on, innovative, creative and resourceful. It has been said that her humor and presence immediately captivate audiences. She has an MBA from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and more than 20 years specializing in Marketing and Strategic Planning both internationally and domestically. She is bilingual and bicultural in English and Spanish and fluent in Portuguese, French, and Italian.</em></p>
<p><strong>About Target Latino: </strong> <em>Target Latino was founded in 2003, with a vision unparalleled at the time &#8211; to show American companies the importance of the U.S. Hispanic market &#8211; not by preaching but by acting. Target Latino is a marketing consulting firm specializing in the Hispanic market.  Target Latino increases the effectiveness of its clients marketing and advertising dollars by creating innovative approaches to acquire and retain Hispanic customers.  Target Latino has a long standing experience of driving results in tough economic times.  Target Latino is minority owned, and a percentage of its proceeds go to different charity causes.</em></p>
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		<title>AARP The Magazine Now Has Three Times the Number of Readers as the Total Number of Twitter Followers of Ashton Kutcher, Oprah and Ryan Seacrest Combined*</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Target Latino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Latest MRI Study Shows AARP The Magazine, People, and Better Homes &#38; Gardens Lead the Way as Most Read Consumer Magazines AARP The Magazine continues to penetrate households as one of the industry leaders in reach and readership and is the only magazine to report consecutive growth in readership in the last six years, now [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: 100; color: #333333; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 23px; background-image: url(http://content.prnewswire.com/designimages/line-horz-01_PRN.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0px 100%;">Latest MRI Study Shows AARP The Magazine, People, and Better Homes &amp; Gardens Lead the Way as Most Read Consumer Magazines</h1>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;"><strong><em>AARP The Magazine</em></strong> continues to penetrate households as one of the industry leaders in reach and readership and is the only magazine to report consecutive growth in readership in the last six years, now boasting more than <strong>35.7 million readers</strong>, as reported in the Fall 2009 Mediamark Research Inc. (MRI) survey. At a critical time for the publishing industry, <em>AARP The Magazine</em> joins<em>People</em>, <em>Good Housekeeping</em> and <em>Sports Illustrated</em> as one of only four publications in the elite top 10 reach magazines group, that achieved growth in readership vs. Spring 2009 MRI. As the world&#8217;s largest circulation magazine and the definitive voice for 50+ Americans, <em>AARP The Magazine</em> now reaches three times as many readers as the total number of Twitter followers of Ashton Kutcher, Oprah and Ryan Seacrest combined.*</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">Additionally, it continues to be the No. 3 most read magazine by American adults (age 18+) after only <em>People</em> and <em>Better Homes &amp; Gardens</em>, and remains the number No. 1 magazine in capturing the boomer audience. <em>AARP The Magazine</em> is now tied with <em>Sports Illustrated</em> in growth among influentials (461,000 more influentials vs. Spring 2009 MRI). Furthermore,<em>AARP The Magazine</em> readers have a 15% higher median household income and are 27% more likely to have graduated college with a B.A. or higher degree.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">&#8220;As media fragmentation continues, <em>AARP The Magazine</em> bucks the trend with a 47% increase in audience over the past six years,&#8221; said Jim Fishman, SVP/Group Publisher, AARP Media. &#8220;By joining <em>People</em>, <em>Good Housekeeping</em> and <em>Sports Illustrated</em> as one of only four publications in the top 10 reach magazines to see growth in the recent MRI wave, <em>AARP The Magazine </em>further reinforces its effectiveness in reaching a vast and influential audience.&#8221;</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">As online activity grows and Facebook reports its fastest-growing demographic is age 55+ (ComScore, March 2009), <em>AARP The Magazine&#8217;</em>s online property (<span style="text-decoration: underline;">www.aarpmagazine.org</span>) also experienced tremendous growth, gaining more than 1 million internet users. It is one of only five magazines that saw an increase of this magnitude.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">In addition to <em>AARP The Magazine</em>, AARP&#8217;s media properties consist of <em>AARP Bulletin</em> and <em>AARP Bulletin Today</em>, the daily go-to news source for AARP&#8217;s nearly 40 million members and Americans 50+; <em>AARP Segunda Juventud</em>, the only bilingual U.S. multimedia property dedicated exclusively to the 50+ Hispanic community; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">www.AARP.org</span>; AARP TV&#8217;s original programs <em>My Generation</em> and <em>Inside E Street</em>; and AARP&#8217;s nationally syndicated radio programs.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;"><strong>About AARP The Magazine</strong></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">With more than 35.7 million readers nationwide, <em>AARP The Magazine</em> (<span style="text-decoration: underline;">www.aarpmagazine.org</span>) is the world&#8217;s largest circulation magazine and the definitive lifestyle publication for Americans 50+. Reaching over 24 million households, <em>AARP The Magazine</em> delivers comprehensive content through in-depth celebrity interviews, health and fitness features, consumer interest information and tips, book and movie reviews and financial guidance. Published bimonthly in print and continually online, <em>AARP The Magazine</em> was founded in 1958 and is the flagship title of AARP Publications.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;"><strong>About AARP Media Sales</strong></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">With unparalleled knowledge of 50+ consumers, as well as unique access across multiple media, AARP Media Sales connects marketers to the ever-growing and influential 50+ population. In addition to representing <span style="text-decoration: underline;">www.aarp.org</span>, AARP&#8217;s trusted Web portal; <em>AARP The Magazine</em>, AARP&#8217;s flagship publication and the world&#8217;s largest circulation magazine with over 35.7 million readers; <em>AARP Bulletin</em> and <em>AARP Bulletin Today</em>, the daily go-to news source for AARP&#8217;s nearly 40 million members and Americans 50+; and <em>AARP Segunda Juventud</em>, the only bilingual U.S. multimedia property dedicated exclusively to the 50+ Hispanic community, AARP Media Sales also has sponsorships for television, radio as well as national and regional events.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;"><em>*Based on number of Twitter followers as of November 18, 2009 at 1pm EST.</em></p>
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		<title>Fannie Mae Launches New HomePath.com in Spanish Aimed at Helping More Hispanics Buy Homes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Target Latino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interactive Tools and Information Designed to Guide Potential Homeowners Through Homebuying Process and Prevent Foreclosure Fannie Mae announced the company launched a Spanish version of its HomePath.com website designed to help more potential homeowners who speak Spanish purchase Fannie Mae-owned properties. The new website in Spanish mirrors the English version of HomePath.com featuring an interactive [...]]]></description>
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<div id="attachment_765" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://hispanic-marketing.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/1235157_house_for_sale.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-765" title="Fannie Mae Launches New HomePath.com in Spanish Aimed at Helping More Hispanics Buy Homes" src="http://hispanic-marketing.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/1235157_house_for_sale.jpg" alt="Fannie Mae Launches New HomePath.com in Spanish Aimed at Helping More Hispanics Buy Homes" width="300" height="203" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Fannie Mae Launches New HomePath.com in Spanish Aimed at Helping More Hispanics Buy Homes</p></div>
<p>Fannie Mae announced the company launched a Spanish version of its HomePath.com website designed to help more potential homeowners who speak Spanish purchase Fannie Mae-owned properties.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">The new website in Spanish mirrors the English version of HomePath.com featuring an interactive search tool of Fannie Mae-owned properties nationwide, details about HomePath® financing, a mortgage payment calculator, property alerts, as well as information on foreclosure prevention and the Making Home Affordable<strong>((SM))</strong> program.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">Through HomePath.com, potential homeowners can access a database that includes a wide selection of homes from around the country &#8211; including the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico &#8211; which can be purchased directly from Fannie Mae. Properties include detailed information and photographs of single-family homes, condominiums, and town houses located in a variety of neighborhoods.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">&#8220;HomePath.com is a great resource that can help people find a lifelong home for themselves and their families,&#8221; said Fannie Mae Executive Vice President, Terry W. Edwards. &#8220;The website has a wealth of information to inform and guide potential homeowners through the process of buying a Fannie Mae-owned property.&#8221;</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">The new release of HomePath.com in Spanish is part of a continuous effort aimed at improving access to information and resources which play a vital role in aiding both English and Spanish-speaking populations in the U.S. purchase homes, while helping minimize the impact on communities hit by foreclosures.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">For more information about HomePath, please visit <a style="color: #6099e9; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; margin: 0px;" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.homepath.com/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">www.HomePath.com</span></a> and click &#8220;En Espanol&#8221;, or for direct access to the website in Spanish, visit <a style="color: #6099e9; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; margin: 0px;" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.es.homepath.com/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">www.es.HomePath.com</span></a>.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;"><em>Fannie Mae exists to expand affordable housing and bring global capital to local communities in order to serve the U.S. housing market. Fannie Mae has a federal charter and operates in America&#8217;s secondary mortgage market to enhance the liquidity of the mortgage market by providing funds to mortgage bankers and other lenders so that they may lend to home buyers. Our job is to help those who house America.</em></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;"><em>Making Home Affordable is a trademark of the United States Department of the Treasury and is used under license.</em></p>
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		<title>Hispanics Minding Money in Downturn Without Sacrificing Pleasures, Research Finds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Target Latino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tough times call for tough decisions, but Latinos are finding ways to mind their budgets while still spending on the small pleasures and privileges they consider vital to their happiness and well-being. C&#38;R Research recently polled its LatinoEyes panel to assess behaviors by the &#8220;majority minority&#8221; during the recession, and found that &#8220;the recession has [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">Tough times call for tough decisions, but Latinos are finding ways to mind their budgets while still spending on the small pleasures and privileges they consider vital to their happiness and well-being.</p>
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<p>C&amp;R Research recently polled its LatinoEyes panel to assess behaviors by the &#8220;majority minority&#8221; during the recession, and found that &#8220;the recession has forced Hispanics to rethink what&#8217;s luxury and what&#8217;s necessity,&#8221; explained Angelina Villarreal, a C&amp;R vice president. &#8221;What we&#8217;re seeing is that while this group is budget-conscious, its members don&#8217;t want to give up their quality of life.&#8221;</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">C&amp;R, in its sample of 825 panel participants, found that the most recession-impacted segments were Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Central Americans; 58 percent reported that the recession had a significant impact on their lives.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">However, a majority of Hispanics, particularly the young, was unwilling to relinquish cell phones (69 percent), and 81 percent (notably Mexicans) couldn&#8217;t do without driving their cars. Paid television services remain important to 67 percent, mostly the older generation, and the home Internet connection, particularly among fluent bicultural Hispanics, is maintained by 65 percent.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">While nearly half of those polled said they were clipping coupons and buying clearance clothing, over three-fourths of Latinos are still spending on dining out or ordering in and going out for entertainment or to the movies, but with less frequency. And nearly three-fourths of the women in this sector haven&#8217;t let the downturn affect their purchasing of personal care products.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">&#8220;Hispanics are trying to make do &#8212; maybe better than make do &#8212; if they can without abandoning their favorite products, entertainment, restaurants, and services,&#8221; Villarreal said. &#8220;And it looks like they&#8217;re succeeding.&#8221;</p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">Chicago-based C&amp;R Research is one of the nation&#8217;s largest, independent full-service research firms. Since 1959, it has provided custom-designed qualitative and quantitative research for a wide variety of business-to-business and business-to-consumer clients. Their specialty research expertise includes youth, boomers, parents and shoppers. In addition,( )C&amp;R&#8217;s consultancy division, LatinoEyes, specializes in the U.S. Hispanic and Latin American markets. Its research team has a deep understanding of both the U.S. and Latino cultures.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #888888;">SOURCE C&amp;R Research</span></p>
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		<title>Mega News &#8216;Edicion Nocturna&#8217; is the &#8216;First and Only Interactive News in Hispanic Television&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What: Mega TV is proud to be the first and only Hispanic broadcaster to have a news show that gives the community and audience a voice in its content and reporting. &#8220;Edicion Nocturna,&#8221; airs on Mega News and uses the Internet and new media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Skype to give audiences the opportunity [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;"><strong>What: </strong>Mega TV is proud to be the first and only Hispanic broadcaster to have a news show that gives the community and audience a voice in its content and reporting. &#8220;Edicion Nocturna,&#8221; airs on Mega News and uses the Internet and new media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Skype to give audiences the opportunity to report live and be a part of the news.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;"><strong>How: </strong>Hosted by journalist Fernando Del Rincon, one of the most respected political analysts in Mexico and the United States, Mega News &#8220;Edicion Nocturna&#8221; uses Skype, a free Internet service, to allow the audience to participate via Webcam from anywhere around the world. Twitter and Facebook also play an important role in the way the audience can interact live with the news. Host Del Rincon reads the public&#8217;s Tweets on the show as they are submitted.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">Several audience interactions have already been successful. A Facebook user recently commented on the controversy of the video of child actors in Puerto Rico who were playing with weapons on Factor Del Rincon News&#8217; Facebook page, essentially turning this viewer into a Web news reporter. The video caused a legal investigation by the island&#8217;s Government because they did not know if the weapons were real. Additionally, through the use of Skype, viewers spoke about the Maras and their possible relationship as role models that the children actors in Puerto Rico follow.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">&#8220;This is a stepping stone for future generations of the media. I feel proud to be a pioneer and a channel of the people&#8217;s voice,&#8221; said journalist and TV host Fernando Del Rincon.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;"><strong>When:</strong> Every Monday through Friday at 10:30 P.M. ET / 7:30 P.M. PT, and 11:30 P.M. in Puerto Rico.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Where:</strong> Mega TV Channel 22, Channel 57 in West Palm Beach, Channel 32 in Las Vegas, Channel 169 on DirecTV in Puerto Rico, Channel 30 in Puerto Rico, Channel 38.2 in Orlando, Channel 36.2 in Tampa, Florida, Channel 40.2 in Charleston, Channel 19.2 in Palm Springs, CA, and Channel 405 on DirecTV Mas in the main cities of the United States.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;"><a style="color: #6099e9; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; margin: 0px;" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mega.tv/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">www.mega.tv</span></a></p>
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		<title>Leading Sperm Bank Now Offers Interactive Spanish Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Target Latino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California Cryobank (CCB), an international sperm banking leader, announced today the release of their upgraded Spanish website www.criobanco.com. Criobanco.com offers all the features of CCB&#8217;s English website www.cryobank.com including online ordering, donor search capability, and extensive information on using donor sperm. &#8220;California Cryobank has been servicing Latino communities all over the world for many years,&#8221; stated Cappy [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">California Cryobank</span> (CCB), an international sperm banking leader, announced today the release of their upgraded Spanish website <a style="color: #6099e9; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; margin: 0px;" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.criobanco.com/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">www.criobanco.com</span></a>. Criobanco.com offers all the features of CCB&#8217;s English website <span style="text-decoration: underline;">www.cryobank.com</span> including online ordering, donor search capability, and extensive information on using donor sperm.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">&#8220;California Cryobank has been servicing Latino communities all over the world for many years,&#8221; stated Cappy Rothman, MD, Co-founder. &#8220;Our goal is to make the process of selecting and using a sperm donor as easy as possible for our Spanish speaking clients.&#8221;</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">CCB offers Spanish speaking representatives available to assist clients over the phone at 866-927-9622 Mon-Fri from 6am-6pm (Pacific Time).</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">CCB is well known for their recently released celebrity <a style="color: #6099e9; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; margin: 0px;" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.criobanco.com/Busqueda-de-Donantes/Look-A-Likes/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Donor Look-a-Like</span></a> website feature. &#8220;We have a wide selection of Latino donors who resemble celebrities such as Oscar De La Hoya, Javier Bardem, and Gael Garcia Bernal,&#8221; said Rothman.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">California Cryobank also provides fertility preservation services to men who are faced with cancer treatments, vasectomies, or those in the military or other high-risk occupations.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">Contact: Scott Brown of California Cryobank, +1-310-496-5681</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #888888;">Source: California Cryobank</span></p>
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		<title>Quepasa Launches Developer Interface and Open Social Sandbox</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Target Latino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quepasa Corporation (Pink Sheets: QPSA), one of the world&#8217;s fastest-growing Latino social networks, today announced the launch of its Developer Interface and Open Social Sandbox. The launch of the Developer Interface is part of Quepasa&#8217;s overall strategy to open the site to third party Open Social developers who would like to develop applications for its [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">Quepasa Corporation (Pink Sheets: QPSA), one of the world&#8217;s fastest-growing Latino social networks, today announced the launch of its Developer Interface and Open Social Sandbox. The launch of the Developer Interface is part of Quepasa&#8217;s overall strategy to open the site to third party Open Social developers who would like to develop applications for its global audience. The Company believes that this new Developer Interface and Open Social Sandbox will become an easy mechanism for developers to test and submit their applications for inclusion in the site&#8217;s Application and/or Games sections and thus enhance the overall user experience and drive site traffic and monetization.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">The Developer Interface consists of a toolbox that developers use when submitting an Open Social application for inclusion on any social site. The toolbox includes documentation of the interfaces available, a news area, a community built for the developers where they can communicate and interact with other application developers as well as with Quepasa&#8217;s development team, and the Open Social Sandbox where they can test completed applications with valid test data. The Open Social Sandbox also includes details of how to include Quepasa&#8217;s new virtual currency, QDollars, as the payment mechanism for premium applications and virtual goods.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">&#8220;Having an open platform that allows access to Quepasa members through the Open Social framework is imperative to the growth of rich functionality for Quepasa.com and its growing user base,&#8221; said Louis Bardov, CTO of Quepasa. &#8220;The activity on Quepasa.com is based on user interaction and our users like to play social games with other members on the site, especially when there are possible rewards in the form of contests and virtual currency. While these contests have been very popular on the site, we are now going to invite and encourage Open Social application developers to build interesting and fun applications for the Quepasa community and we hope and anticipate that these developers will make the minimal modifications required to get adoption of their applications from our rapidly growing user base on Quepasa.com.&#8221;</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">Quepasa&#8217;s release of the Developer Interface and the Open Social Sandbox is the latest news in Quepasa&#8217;s growing success story. Since its launch as a social network focused on the growing Latino population just over 16 months ago, Quepasa has seen its user base grow to over 5 million registered users. This number continues to grow at an impressive pace because of Quepasa&#8217;s differentiated strategy of premium Latino content and entertainment. To date, this growth has been achieved solely through the viral acquisition, powered by Quepasa&#8217;s user base.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;"><strong>About Quepasa Corporation</strong></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">Quepasa Corporation (Pink Sheets: QPSA), headquartered in West Palm Beach, FL with offices in Los Angeles, CA; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Scottsdale, AZ; Miami, FL; and Hermosillo, MX, owns Quepasa.com (www.Quepasa.com), one of the world&#8217;s largest, trilingual, Latino social networks. Quepasa.com is an authentic Latino community that provides fun, interactive, and easy to use social tools, and rich multimedia content in English, Spanish and Portuguese to embrace Latinos everywhere, and empower them to connect online, compete in contests and games and share their interests, ideas, and activities.</p>
<pre style="font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: #464646; line-height: 1.2em; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; margin-top: 5px;">    Contact:
    Mike Matte, Chief Financial Officer
    Quepasa Corporation
    (561) 491-4186</pre>
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<p style="line-height: 1.333em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #888888;">Source: Quepasa Corporation</span></p>
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