If you’re feeling an increase in buzz on the Interwebs around El Paso, it is most likely thanks to Social Media Tourism Symposium going on Downtown at the convention center through tomorrow.  The #SoMeT, a conference about the use of social media in the tourism is here thanks to the thousands of El Pasoans who outvoted competing cities last April for the honor to host the gathering. This means our shops, restaurants, Twitter feeds and...

It took a few digital platforms before UT El Paso-based Borderzine.com found success in its mission to inform and employ, said Webmaster Lourdes Cueva Chacón. “We started with 50 unique visitors a month,” Cueva Chacón said of the website that first launched in December 2008. “We are now around 20,000 a month.” Senior journalism lecturer and Borderzine.com director Zita Arocha told the Columbia Journalism Review in a May interview that the...