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Twitter: Global Village or Recessionista?

by | Mar 28, 2009 |

Twitter, it seems, is making mainstream headlines daily these days. Yesterday, the IHT featured on page 2, an article "A truth renewed online: It still takes a village," which begins: "Twitter and Facebook are, OMG, so last millennium". The article, written by Anand...

A perfect date this year…

by | Mar 24, 2009 |

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . . . if you live in the United States (i.e. you write the date MM/DD/YY), at five minutes and six seconds after 4 AM on the 8th of July this year, the time and date will be: 04:05:06 07/08/09 It's a beautiful thing.  This will not happen again...

Twitter – Sweeping Growth as Business Tool

by | Mar 23, 2009 |

Twitter update - 7+ million users and growing... fast Twitter has grown by a staggering 1382% in the span of one year, to have over 7 million monthly unique visitors, according to data from market research firm Nielsen. The research suggested that Twitter was becoming...

Six Nations 2009 Grand Slam Goes to Ireland

by | Mar 22, 2009 |

Saturday, March 21st 2009 was a great day for Six Nations rugby. Each game seemed to have something riding on it.  There was some great rugger. The end of a 61-year journey. Some pride recuperated (France). Two away wins. Some things better left unsaid (Italy). Aside...

Matsuyama ex-Love Hotel Spurned by Yahoo Buyers

by | Mar 21, 2009 |

My sharp-witted friend, David (arigato gozaimasu), sent me this stunning news: you can buy this 30-room castle, plus several other buildings and 15,000 square meters of surrounding land for just over 1.1 million euros. Here is the story. The château in question is the...

Apple Stores – Sheer Genius

by | Mar 19, 2009 |

Listening to Apple's videocast of the opening speech at this year's MacWorld 2009, I heard that Apple stores around the world receive 3.4 million visitors per week. Via a separate source, I see that Apple had 251 stores as of the end of calendar year 2008 and is...

The Dead played at the Obama Inauguration

by | Mar 18, 2009 | ,

It took a little bit of exploration on dead.net and Rolling Stone to find out -- substantially after the fact -- that the [revised Grateful] Dead played for Obama in the Mid-Atlantic inaugural ball (20 Jan 2009). No one I know was in attendance or perhaps they might...

Keep Paris Clean says the Mayor’s Office…

by | Mar 17, 2009 |

  The Paris mayor's office has seen fit to launch an outdoor ad campaign to keep Paris clean.  The image of trash in one or other natural environment is headlined with "unacceptable" or "scandalous" in Paris, too!  To the extent that photos of trash in...

Apple’s inspiration reaches out… again

by | Mar 13, 2009 | ,

The never ending flow of examples of how Apple has impacted the world continues... Above is an outdoor ad in Paris by a travel site (www.marmara.com) using multiple coloured suitcases, much like the Apple Shuffle, to mention one of the iconoclastic campaigns. In both...

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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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