by Minter Dial | Jul 25, 2010 | Social Media
Have you not heard of Johnnie Boden? Talk about turning your life into a brand! I am impressed with the UK clothing retailer Boden (not to be mixed up with Boden, the store fixtures retailer). Johnnie Boden, a failed banker-turned-teacher, launched a...
by Minter Dial | Jul 20, 2010 | Social Media
What is going to happen to your Facebook profile after you die? Your Facebook legacy This is surely not one of the most top-of-mind topics for many people on Facebook; but, after I read yesterday’s Herald Tribune/NY Times article, entitled “Facebook...
by Minter Dial | Jul 16, 2010 | Social Media
(Update July 28) With the massive leak of over 91,000 documents from the US Army operations in Afghanistan to Wikileaks, the notions of security, confidentiality, privacy and piracy have hit the front pages of mass media around the world. The role of the internet and...
by Minter Dial | Jul 4, 2010 | Social Media
BP under fire The calamity of the Gulf of Mexico does not need one more person (me) to harangue BP. They are surely paying the BIG price as it is. But, in terms of crisis management, I do not believe the history books or case studies will be particularly...
by Minter Dial | Jul 3, 2010 | Leadership, Responsibility, Social Media
Facebook’s sweeping success is, in very large part, because it is a hybrid social media, brokering the gap of personal and professional. The rules of the social media game privilege ‘personal’ communications; and companies that manage to insert...
by Minter Dial | Jun 10, 2010 | Social Media
The world of the Internet seems to be having a face-off with the concepts of privacy and anonymity. Google is under criminal investigation for its streetview data on GoogleMaps (BBC News). Wikileaks is under siege since one of its anonymous sources, a certain...
