by Minter Dial | Jun 24, 2016 | Leadership, Responsibility
How often do you get frustrated with the way people communicate with you? It seems it’s an issue that comes up time and again, whether it is communicating with a colleague, a member of your family or with some corporate or governmental agency. I observe that...
by Minter Dial | Jun 21, 2016 | New Tech
Everyone’s inbox is stuffed with untold amounts of spammy, scammy and risky emails. As we all continue to struggle to keep up with the communications coming in from all angles, even the most digitally savvy are not immune. Under the onslaught, we might sometimes...
by Minter Dial | Feb 18, 2016 | Leadership
If you are a teacher at university, you are wholly — and daily — aware of the challenge of battling for your students’ attention beyond and behind the invading and invasive digital screens. In a school room, the tragedy of the situation is that the...
by Minter Dial | Dec 8, 2015 | Leadership
Last week, I conducted a survey and received nearly 200 responses. You can see the first post on the topic here, featuring the results across the 13 questions, each of which tackled a specific “digital” situation. For each question, the respondents were...
by Minter Dial | Dec 1, 2015 | New Tech
It’s true that my peers and I (as well as plenty of those that followed) went to school with any more than (at best) access to a computer. So how is society to self-educate? With parents that haven’t been trained, we are supposed to be setting the course....