by Minter Dial | May 5, 2010 | Social Media
I tweeted recently about the state of the Twitter business as far as Heads of State were concerned. With the arrival of new kid on the block, Hugo Chavez (you rebel, you) and the upcoming general election in the UK, I feel that the topic is hot! As of today,...
by Minter Dial | Apr 19, 2010 | Social Media
Following on the heels of the post “Why NOT join Facebook” which I posted on Slideshare a week ago, I have created its antidote, “Top 5 reasons why businesses should use Facebook.” Using the same style, it is posted only as a static...
by Minter Dial | Apr 9, 2010 | Social Media
I recently put this presentation up on Slideshare, entitled the “Top 6 Reasons Why NOT to Join Facebook.” Thought I’d post it here too. The original presentation (in Keynotes) comes with some fun animations and is set to a song I co-wrote with an...
by Minter Dial | Feb 22, 2010 | Social Media
After a power meeting with Justin Kirby, founder of Yooster (a word-of-mouth opinion poll) and author of Connected Marketing, I thought it worthwhile to comment on two of Justin’s key mantras: 1/ “Social media is a misnomer.” Social media...
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...