So we´re back from LATISM12 (Latinos in Social Media), which I tried my best to capture in a recap post published yesterday on Mamiverse. Thank you all who made it a wonderful enriching experience. I encourage you to follow the #LATISM hashtag on Twitter for community-building tweets and conversation. It was wonderful to meet the […]
It’s really hard, if not impossible, to do a recap of a social media conference without feeling that you were unfair to someone by omission. But then, when attending a social media conference, I always leave with the feeling that I didn’t talk to enough people, and mostly that I didn’t converse with them thoroughly. In […]
I know about hurricanes. In 2004 I moved to the U.S. and landed in Miami one day ahead of Hurricane Jeanne. The same summer, my now ex-husband had relocated before the rest of the family, one day ahead of Hurricane Ivan. That was shortly after Hurricane Charley swept the Florida West Coast and then Frances […]
Every fall, I vow to decorate the house for Halloween by October 15. Every year I promise myself to take the kids to a pumpkin patch, buy several pumpkins of different sizes and have a grand time carving them. Of course I want my jack-o-lanterns to look Martha Stewart perfect. I tell myself this will […]
If you are attending LATISM12 in Houston, Texas, be sure to find us! We will be on the panel The Evolution of Education: New Channels, Opportunities and Challenges. Make sure to follow us on Twitter: @Mamiverse and @Lorrainecladish for #LATISM12 Updates. Tuesday October 16 we held our Mamiverse Reads Twitter party with SpanglishBaby and Mamiverse Books. […]
This digital mom took last weekend off from work… There, I said it! I almost feel as if I just confessed a dirty little secret. And it’s not like I spent Saturday and Sunday lounging around by the pool: I organized my clutter, sorted through the junk in my children’s’ bedroom, went grocery shopping, cooked […]
There are luddites out there who dismiss social media as superficial, frivolous and time consuming. I would know! I used to be one of them. I shunned social media until a friend introduced me to MySpace in 2007, and suggested I could use it as a promotion tool for my writing. I joined reluctantly, and […]
There are many reasons why I read to my kids, even when they can already do it on their own. As a kid, books were my best friends. I was born into a family of writers and linguists, and I grew up surrounded by books and manuscripts. I imagined that every house was filled with […]
[Mamiverse’s Bilingual Plus is an online channel devoted to bringing parents and educators the bilingual learning tools they need in the form of digital picture books, sing-alongs, and free curriculum-based family activities.] Bilingual is Better is a book that sums up everything those of us fortunate to have command of two languages know first hand. […]