by Minter Dial | May 13, 2012 | Branding
The other day, I heard how a project with a code name was actually launched with the very same code name. It kind of makes a mockery of the secrecy that “code” names are supposed to provide, no? Also, under the “it sounds silly, but...
by Minter Dial | May 10, 2012 | Social Media
I thought this street advertising for Godspell at Circle in the Square theatre on Broadway (NY) was brilliant. Clearly, this is one socially savvy Broadway theatre (and/or it has a good agency behind it). The play has a full (dare I say heavenly) battery of social...
by Minter Dial | May 8, 2012 | Social Media
In my former life at L’Oreal, in the professional products division (selling professional products to hairdressers), we used to spend a lot of time trying to convert a hairdressing salon from one hair color range to another. When a color was well...
by Minter Dial | May 1, 2012 | Social Media
USA Today recently wrote up an article about the end of corporate blogging. Refering to a study done by U Mass (Dartmouth) done earlier this year, it said that “…the percentage of companies that maintain blogs fell to 37% in 2011 from 50% in 2010,...
by Minter Dial | Apr 27, 2012 | Social Media
Have you noticed of late the precipitous falloff of activity on Foursquare? If you are a user, I’m going to guess that you — like me — have taken the finger off the Foursquare pedal ever since they altered the scoring system. The race for first...