by Minter Dial | Jan 21, 2014 | New Tech
The beginning of the year is time to take stock of new initiatives and directions. I started with a post on the 3 key words for 2014. While there is nothing flagrantly new in the items I am promoting as being the top trends for marketing, this year, there is a...
by Minter Dial | Jan 8, 2014 | Business, Cyber Security
As “new” technology gradually becomes more embedded into “business as usual,” defining tech trends and hot tickets for a specific timeframe can seem almost anachronistic. Technologies arrive and mature at different times according to the...
by Minter Dial | Jan 6, 2014 | New Tech
The figures for 2013 tend to show that eBook sales slowed. According to the US data from the Association of American Publishers, adult eBooks grew less than +5% year/year for the eight months ending August 2013 compared to double and triple digit growth in the...
by Minter Dial | Dec 2, 2013 | New Tech
Among the many acronyms out there being used by consultants, agencies and brand marketing teams alike is 1-to-1 or 1-to-many. Or, as my friend Brian Solis says frequently, in this digitally enhanced era, there is one-to-one-to-many. In parallel, there has...
by Minter Dial | Nov 6, 2013 | New Tech
People often ask me whether QR (short for Quick Response) codes are “for real”? The short answer is that QR codes will likely not have a long shelf life. That said, in certain countries — such as South Korea, Japan (from whence they come), South...
by Minter Dial | Nov 4, 2013 | New Tech, Responsibility
As abstract as digital might be, there is a distinctly human component to what makes digital work. Maybe the French have it right when they kabosh the term digital, which literally means “of the finger” in French. In organizations and executive...
