by Minter Dial | Oct 10, 2012 | Social Media
If your boss comes to you and says, “Hey, why don’t we make a viral video?” you might want to consider running for the woods. As a brand, the chances of successfully making a video that goes viral is rather small and the odds can get much worse...
by Minter Dial | Oct 9, 2012 | Leadership
The Unwanted Commy In English, “Comms” has long been the abbreviation for communications. In French, the term is “la Comm.” In both cases, the associated meaning is typically reduced to a rather unfortunate, if not pejorative, activity of...
by Minter Dial | Oct 7, 2012 | Minter Dialogue, Podcast
Minter Dialogue #36 This interview is with Kevin P. Ryan, entrepreneur, business leader and angel investor. As CEO, he helped build DoubleClick basically from scratch into a multi-billion dollar business. Kevin has since gone on to invest in a number of winning...
by Minter Dial | Oct 5, 2012 | Social Media
What is content marketing? There are plenty of great sources for defining what is content marketing, and none better than the entry in Wikipedia: Content marketing is “the creation and sharing of content in order to attract, acquire and engage clearly...
by Minter Dial | Oct 2, 2012 | Business
The Cults of Perfection and SecrecyA couple of days ago (Sept 28) both the US Intelligence and Apple did something simultaneously and quite counter cultural: they both admitted that they had made mistakes. Both the US intelligence and Apple have a history of not...