by Minter Dial | Nov 12, 2012 | Social Media
Too tight to call? According to all the pre-Election media hype and poll results, the presidential elections in the US were “too tight to call” right up until the last minute. Yet, the final score in terms of electoral votes was a gaping 332 (62%) for...
by Minter Dial | Nov 5, 2012 | Social Media
Geo-Loco : More loco than Local I have gradually begun to ween myself off of Foursquare. Gone are the competitive days where I feverishly checked in to see how many points I had won. One of my prouder check-ins was worth 16 points (see right) when I accumulated miles...
by Minter Dial | Oct 16, 2012 | Social Media
With Facebook now a publicly traded company, brands in some kind of perpetual disarray and consumers still not trusting marketers, the question occurred to me: is Facebook trying to be all things to all people: Earned, Owned and Paid media? A dance between brand, user...
by Minter Dial | Oct 12, 2012 | Responsibility, Social Media
I attended the Hub Forum 2012, founded and run by Vincent Ducrey and Emmanuel Vivier, in Paris this week. It’s a grand event, attracting the luminaries of the net in France, the top brass of the French ad agencies as well as some high profile managers in...
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 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...