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...
by Minter Dial | Apr 18, 2012 | Marketing
“Out with the old. In with the new.” From the silent film The Artist, this line was “spoken” by the character, Peppy Miller (played by Bérénice Bejo), as she was PRing her new film, “The Beauty Spot,” all...