by Minter Dial | Feb 18, 2010 | Social Media
In response to a recent Edelman study and Hubspot post about the 2010 barometers of trust — and specifically, the reduced level of trust in our friends’ advice — I was inspired to write a comment which I post below. “According According...
by Minter Dial | Feb 9, 2010 | Business, Social Media
This post was originally published on Dec 14 2009 on a new defunct blog. It is the third in a series of the key learnings from LeWeb 2009 conference (Dec 9-10). As I have written before, I attended the LeWeb Conference 2009 in Paris, and have collected my...
by Minter Dial | Feb 2, 2010 | Social Media
I am often asked what makes a social media strategy work or fail for a company or brand? What makes a social media campaign succeed is quite a vast topic. For this post, I thought I might address what I consider to be the four main causes of failure which can...
by Minter Dial | Jan 22, 2010 | Social Media
Thanks to my good pal, Eric Blot, I was switched on to Twitter 360. What is Twitter 360 (it shows up as “Tweet 360” on the iPhone)? It is an accessory tool for Twitter on your iPhone 3GS which provides an “augmented reality”; i.e. it takes the...
by Minter Dial | Jan 15, 2010 | Cyber Security, Social Media
Following up on my Jan 14th post of the Cyber Email Scam, I am reporting on Elisabeth’s belief as to HOW it happened as well as how she resolved the situation with Yahoo. How did Elisabeth’s email get pirated? Facebook is the root cause. She uncovered in...
by Minter Dial | Jan 14, 2010 | Cyber Security, Social Media
New Scam – Cyber Stealth I write this post to alert you all to a new form of scandalous cyber scam. Last night, at 7:30pm, I received this email below directly from the address of a good old friend, Elisabeth, from the United States. It was a bulk...