by Minter Dial | Apr 2, 2009 | Business, Marketing
THE MOST IMPORTANT DIGITAL LESSON I’VE LEARNED… I have picked this pearl of wisdom to share with you today: You can’t control what people say about you on the web, but you can be a good listener. This is from Walmart: Walmart has been getting into...
by Minter Dial | Jan 5, 2009 | Business
With falling market prices, what is to become of the recycling market? If it were not difficult enough to raise funds in the current economic conditions for sustainable development, market prices for aluminium, paper, plastic and steel have been falling through the...
by Minter Dial | Dec 7, 2008 | Branding, Business, Marketing, Mobile, Social Media
Crisis, What Crisis? Bring forth the Internet As we spin into the depths of this worldwide economic crisis, the opportunity for companies to move to more efficient, effective and measurable marketing activities online seems perfectly obvious, if not natural. The time...
by Minter Dial | Nov 19, 2008 | Business, Sports
A Search for the Ultimate “Way” in Sports, Business and Life When people refer to the Great One, Mario or Cosby, or then again Michael Jordan, Bjorn Borg or Tiger Woods, one would not be surprised to think that they all share a hidden talent. The hidden or invisible...
by Minter Dial | Nov 6, 2008 | Branding, Business, Marketing, Responsibility, Social Media
Web 2.0 and Sustainable Development – A Way of Life Via personal predilection and, as it happens, in my work, I am embedded in Web 2.0 functionality. When I take a helicopter view of web 2.0, especially as it applies to the corporate world, I associate the 2.0...
by Minter Dial | Oct 29, 2008 | Business
Cicero Called for Balancing the Budget … 2000 years ago Cicero, the Roman statesman (106BC-43BC) is said to have said the following: “The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of...