by Minter Dial | Aug 31, 2012 | Marketing
Here is an email that landed in my spam box (thank you Gmail) and yet still had me do a double take. I almost clicked on it, despite the fact that I was reading it in my spam box and it had a big RED ALERT banner on top. Thought I’d post it as it shows just how...
by Minter Dial | Aug 28, 2012 | Guest Post, Politics
For those of you not on my mailing list (please do sign up here if you enjoy my blog’s content), I recently had a guest article published on Brian Solis’ blog.* This article, which analyzes the digital campaigns of the two finalist candidates...
by Minter Dial | Aug 27, 2012 | Branding
Which day of the year is the most popular day for birthdays? The answer is that it depends… on the country and culture in which you live, and specifically onthe season and temperature. It also seems to depend on the source! Data source: NYTimes.com,...
by Minter Dial | Aug 24, 2012 | Entertainment, WWII
This week in 1938 (August 22), Hollywood’s most famous dancing duo, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, were featured on the cover of Life magazine. With the US still in the grips of the Great Depression and with war heating up in Europe, Astaire and Rogers were...
by Minter Dial | Aug 24, 2012 | Social Media
On your birthday, you will surely receive those heartwarming swarm of posts, tweets, mails, text messages and telephone calls, a far cry from the odd telephone calls and snail mail birthday cards of yore. I had a lovely birthday recently and tallied up my...
