Foursquare - Too square? After a week of heavy usage, I have come to find Foursquare a bit too square. Here is the story. Over the last year, I became quite a fan of Foursquare (an application that provides you & your friends new ways of exploring your city...
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Should Brand Marketers be Benevolent Dictators?
Marketers' first ailment: Not invented here Every generation tends to think that their own era is special. The "not invented here" mindset applied to a time span... Perhaps it should read: "not invented now" or "never seen before." Certainly, every period has its...
Interview with Jonathan Salem Baskin – author, blogger & speaker on branding
Jonathan Salem Baskin Dialogue with Jonathan Baskin on global brand challenges Here is a Boxing Day interview with Jonathan Salem Baskin, global brand strategist and reputed author, blogger and speaker on branding. Specifically, Jonathan is author of "Branding Only...
Looking back at 2011, what happened?
Imagine this, it is the end of 2011 and we should take a look back at what occurred during the year. From geopolitics to the digital space, here is a retrospective on the year that hasn’t yet started. What happens after Prince William’s wedding, Facebook is finally bought out, Community Managers are forced to evolve, Customer Service Managers are in, and more…
Speed dial list of friends
Whose speed dial list are you on? Bouncing off of Seth Godin's recent post "Who is on your list" (about always maintaining a list of the "important" people in your network), I was inspired by my very dear Friend, Ann Mincey, to write about lists of friends. In...
BBC News – Beauty sleep concept is not a myth, says study
Love the fact that we have to prove that sleep makes us look and feel good! Whatever else? Bags under the eyes, poor focus, squinting because the eyes hurt... Not good signs coming from the sleep deprived, not to mention the ill effects on the health. A rested person...
Straker Software Translation Services, Interview With Co-founder David Sowerby
An interview with David Sowerby, co-founder and director of Sales & Marketing of Straker Software. I met and interviewed David while we were at LeWeb 2010 in Paris. With my natural predilection for languages, I was more than a bit interested to find out how...
TellMeWhere Social Search Service, Interview with Gilles Barbier, CEO & co-Founder
I caught this interview with Gilles Barbier, founder and CEO of TellMeWhere, while at LeWeb 2010. TellMeWhere (DisMoiOu in France) is one of my favorite apps on my iphone, providing a handy social search when I am out and about in Paris looking for a spot to eat or...
Interview with Frederic Lardinois, ReadWriteWeb USA
Frederic Lardinois, News Writer for ReadWriteWeb ("the thinking man's TechCrunch") out of the US, a self-professed geek and a phD student in Medieval Studies, gives some key highlights from 2010 in terms of new technologies and prospectives for 2011. Sites and apps...
Interview with Ben Parr, Co-Editor at Mashable US
Highlights of 2010 and Preview of 2011 from Ben Parr Here is a quick interview I caught on the fly with Ben Parr, co-editor of Mashable US, one of the reference sites in new technology in the US. Ben Parr is a journalist, sci-fi author and a man in the know when...
To Book Minter!
I’m Minter Dial and I serve my clients by elevating the debate and energy, telling powerful stories and connecting people and ideas. My mission to insert more meaningfulness into our lives and at work. I relish being an engaging professional speaker on leadership, transformation and branding. I’m known for being someone who walks the talk and delivers on or above expectations. I’m the author of four award-winning books, including the second edition of my award-winning book, Heartificial Empathy (April 2023, available in English and French), You Lead published by Kogan Page that won the Business Book Award 2022, and Futureproof (FT-Press/Pearson) that won the Business Book Award 2018. I’m also the producer of the award-winning WWII book and documentary film The Last Ring Home.
My last major published project was Dialogos, Fostering More Meaningful Conversations that was published weekly via Substack, over 79 weeks. I am currently working on a new book, The Avatar Trap.
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