by Minter Dial | Jul 9, 2012 | Social Media
You would have thought that with a last name Dial, I would be all over the idea of a digital dial? For the past few years, however, I have been errant. In essence, I have been pressing the fast forward button on the iPhone video as if it were a button on a physical...
by Minter Dial | Jun 10, 2012 | Social Media
This Saturday’s front page of the UK Daily Mail (June 9, 2012) featured two headline stories (below the FREE DVD promotion) both of which concerned social media. One story is regarding Facebook and the second is about Twitter. Neither of the stories...
by Minter Dial | May 20, 2012 | Branding, Responsibility
Inspired by a couple of ever fascinating podcasts by Mitch Joel at Twist Image, I wanted to dig into two ideas about digital marketing. Active & Passive Media First, the notion of “active versus passive media” as Mitch calls it. As opposed to...
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...
