by Minter Dial | Jul 13, 2021 | Business, Entertainment, Leadership, Marketing
A memorable meeting with Ken Loach A few years ago, I had the great pleasure to address a powerhouse crowd assembled by Adobe France for the Fête du Cinéma. I was invited to present and screen my WWII documentary film, The Last Ring Home, in the presence of Ken Loach,...
by Minter Dial | Jul 7, 2021 | Business, Ethics, Marketing
How important is friendship for you? How strong are your relationships? These are two questions that have always been important but seem to be taking up a renewed and vital importance in a world of epidemic loneliness, acute mental health issues and a difficult work...
by Minter Dial | May 23, 2021 | Education, Entertainment, Marketing, Minter Dialogue, New Tech, Podcast
Minter Dialogue with Christine MacKay Christine MacKay is a worldly entrepreneur, speaker and the award-winning founder of Salamandra UK, animation studios that help organisations to convey complex messages using a variety of state-of-the-art technologies. In this...
by Minter Dial | May 6, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cyber Security, Futureproof, Marketing
I attended the Pega World Inspire 2021 which, for the second year in a row, was held online. Let’s hope in 2022, it’ll be back in person (Las Vegas!). It was, overall, a highly polished and high-speed 2.5-hour affair with a lot of content delivered. I...
by Minter Dial | Apr 28, 2021 | Branding, Ethics, Marketing, Meaningfulness
With purpose being all the rage these days, it’s normal to start hearing about wild and crazy purposes being bandied about. On one end of the scale, you’ve got grand missions like: “To stop Ocean Plastic by gathering a billion people together to monetize...
by Minter Dial | Apr 21, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Ethics, Marketing, Social Media
After a spate of emails from a fairly large portal site (it’s ranked around 50,000th on Alexa worldwide), I was appalled at the number of marketing sins they have committed. Either this organization is doing so intentionally, which is borderline unethical, or...