by Minter Dial | Mar 31, 2011 | Social Media
The pregnant pause Whether a comedian, teacher or an orator, there is no doubt that silence is a powerful tool. Its use must be used with discretion and timing is primordial. It can be learned and, hopefully, be mastered. But, is this also the case in digital...
by Minter Dial | Mar 26, 2011 | Social Media
If there is one phrase I hear over and over, it is: “I don’t have the time…I’m super busy.” In conjunction with an ever growing realization of the need for digital education in organizations, I believe there is an even more urgent need to...
by Minter Dial | Mar 15, 2011 | Social Media
A SOCIAL MEDIA EXPERIMENT Minter and Lisa Porter Dial, NY, circa 1938 I am on a mission. I have launched a social media experiment (over on Minter Dialogue Blog) regarding the 100th anniversary of the birth of my grandfather, Lt Cdr N Minter Dial, after...
by Minter Dial | Mar 12, 2011 | Education, Social Media
Cutting up your speech into 140-character Tweets A few nights ago, I was asked to deliver a speech at a Media Aces dinner on what makes a great presentation. Below is a resume of what I said, but the point I wanted to highlight, thanks to a comment by Fadhila Brahimi...
by Minter Dial | Mar 8, 2011 | Minter Dialogue, Social Media
Interactive Marketing at its best I got to know Rachel Weiss while working at L’Oreal. Specifically, Rachel began at L’Oréal in 2007 working on the digital strategy for PureOlogy and Redken USA (‘professional’ brands that sell through the...
by Minter Dial | Mar 3, 2011 | Social Media
I have been working with some PR teams recently and it is clear for me that the line between PR and Marketing is very grey. Whether PR is Public Relations or Press Relations, the definitions are increasingly muddled. Where does one stop and the other begin? No one...