Hispanic Network Magazine!

Let me start off by thanking Shonika Proctor (@teenbizcoach) for purchasing a copy for me.

I’m not sure if this is the most recent copy because it has some old events. I’m thinking it was the October Issue maybe. I was reluctant in reading it because a lot of the content I read about Hispanics aren’t written directly by Hispanics. Soledad O’Brien from CNN is on the cover and there’s has been some mixed receptions from Latinos towards her. I’ll keep mine to myself. One thing I noticed is that there are a lot of advertisements in the Hispanic magazine for military, government jobs, education and etc, at least more than I see in regular American print magazines. I’ve grown up with a specific style of magazines, advertisements side by side, articles standing alone but in this mag when I open the page I look at the page to the right which is where all the advertisements are and I miss the articles on the left. I would change that if I had a magazine (hint!)

For the most part the magazine had a good synopsis on 2nd Annual Hispanic Business to Business Trade Show and other Hispanic conferences held in the past month or so. My favorite article of this issue would have to be the Nilda G. Thomas Article. It was titled “The eBizpreneur” which isn’t half bad for a title.

Nilda is an Afro-Cuban Chinese American who was born and raised in the Detroit Metro Area. She has come a long way with a family track record as her milestone. Her father was the first minority to sell $1M, yes 1 million dollars of life insurance in the early 1960’s along with other “firsts” in the industry. Seeing her dad at the Million Dollar Roundtable year after year and chair the President’s Club Conference was a lasting impression on Nilda.

Fast forwarding to more recent accomplishments with her education and entrepreneur spirited background Nilda has made impressions on companies like EDS, AT&T, Microsoft, and Deloitte & Touche. In August 2000, she was featured and quoted in Black Enterprise Magazine’s 30th Anniversary Issue (shout-outs to them!). She said,

If we don’t embrace it (technology) as a people, we’re going to be left behind. We need to embrace and be afforded the opportunities to take advantage of the way we learn technology so we become more marketable in the workforce and in our business.

Nilda has mixed her entrepreneurism, tenacity, determination, marketing knowledge, eLearning, and technology to launch businesses like Workforce eTraining Solutions LLC and International Forensics eLearning Academy and Virtual Travel Buddy.

I enjoyed reading her article and had to write a blog post about. To find more information on Nilda you can find her on LinkedIn.