by Minter Dial | Jun 21, 2011 | Social Media
Discretion in Selection To the extent that Twitter is becoming the go-to resource for finding information and staying up to date, the real value of Twitter is in the quality of those you follow. This means that you need to be selective about who you follow. There are...
by Minter Dial | Jun 19, 2011 | Social Media
Have you noticed that the social media frontier is lined with women? An article in USA Today “Groupon Mania ignites fight for ad dollars with deals” alerted me to a fact: women are playing a larger role in social media business than is the case in ‘regular’ business....
by Minter Dial | Jun 17, 2011 | Social Media
Friday’s here!Starting today, Friday I am going to create a new “corner” on Mydial. It is going to be a place where I feature an interesting site that caught my attention recently. I will endeavour to explain why it is interesting....
by Minter Dial | Jun 15, 2011 | Social Media
The following is an extract of my tweets (mainly) from the keynote speech by Dr. Daniel Thorniley (British speaker, consultant and economist with a delightful sense of humor) “CIO needs to work IN business, not with business” via Gartner at #LIVE11...
by Minter Dial | Jun 14, 2011 | Social Media
The Experiment & the Experience: What happened? In this prior post, I described how I decided to put together a social media experiment around the celebration of my grandfather’s 100th birthday. He died December 15, 1944 and surely would have been flummoxed...
by Minter Dial | Jun 13, 2011 | Social Media, WWII
An idea, a cause & Facebook On March 21st, 2011, I celebrated with 70 other people around the world what would have been my grandfather’s 100th birthday. Although my grandfather, after whom I was named, was killed December 15, 1944, I wanted to pay tribute...