New Blogger Template

Many thanks to BTemplates.com, I'm proud to release a stunning new Blogger template for DondeQuiera.  I was looking for some updates colors, and a dash of the beach or the sea, and I think I got lucky.

I'm still working a few kinks out after the template transition, but it was a long time in coming.  The old template was the last remnant of DondeEs.com, so parting with the Don Dees was way overdue.   Don Dees was a big part of my life, so seeing bits of him disappear brings on a little melancholy.  Oh, course, you can always get a peek at on the Way Way Back Machine.

Everybody wants to buy the newest toys

U.S. retailers racked up a record $52.4 billion in sales over the Thanksgiving weekend, a 16.4 percent jump from a year ago, as early hours and attractive promotions brought out more shoppers, an industry trade group said on Sunday.

In addition, Thanksgiving 2011 witnessed record breaking online retail sales with 39.3 percent increase for the holiday. IBM Coremetrics data showed a growth of 24.3 percent in online sales on Black Friday sales as compared to same period a year ago.

Dondequiera CyberMonday Offers

If you're going to be making some cybermonday purchases at Amazon, please consider linking to them from us. We'll be making a formal announcement soon, but Dondequiera is now part of the Mis Tribus media group. Through our partnership with Amazon, if you use our links, all of your Amazon purchases are donated to Mis Tribus, a non-profit company of Puerto Rico dedicated to creating a sustenable creative community. So please join with me to support Mis Tribus in their mission to give Puerto Rican authors a voice in the new arena of digital publishing.

Social Media Is Not About Me

In tribute of my upcoming training MC Don Dees has asked me to guest write here at Dondequiera. So I'll be taking the reins here for a while. My purpose is to share with you some of the background for Mis Tribus, our Conversational Model (previously called the Revenue Growth Model), and Fanz.ly.

I've been a fan of Kathy Sierra ever since I attended her tutorial Creating Passionate Users at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention back in 2005.  But I have to admit that some of her key points never hit home, until today. Even though I watched her give this keynote presentation at the Tools of Change for Publishing conference, I never really understood how to make my readers kick ass (as she puts it).



Fast forward nine months of in-depth research on Twitter and social media and things couldn't be clearer. Social media is not about me. It's about how much value I create for my followers, friends, and connections. Of course, social media is many things to many different people, but I think in the arena of content creation, it's all about your users; or as Kathy puts it: "It's about my audience's audience." Ok, I get it.