by Minter Dial | Jul 25, 2010 | Social Media
Have you not heard of Johnnie Boden? Talk about turning your life into a brand! I am impressed with the UK clothing retailer Boden (not to be mixed up with Boden, the store fixtures retailer). Johnnie Boden, a failed banker-turned-teacher, launched a...
by Minter Dial | Jul 24, 2010 | Marketing
On a family holidays to Stockholm, we visited the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities (aka Historical Museum or Historiska Museet in Swedish), located at Narvavägen 13–17, in the east side of Stockholm. I have two things to say about this museum: 1/...
by Minter Dial | Jul 16, 2010 | Mobile
Bleeding Apple Logo As reported by ZDNET and BBC News “Apple offers free iPhone 4 cases,” Steve Jobs has shown himself and the company to have flaws. I am a total and avowed Apple convert, but I am of the variety that never rushes out to buy the very...
by Minter Dial | Jul 3, 2010 | Leadership, Responsibility, Social Media
Facebook’s sweeping success is, in very large part, because it is a hybrid social media, brokering the gap of personal and professional. The rules of the social media game privilege ‘personal’ communications; and companies that manage to insert...
by Minter Dial | Jun 29, 2010 | Politics
Taking a step back recently, I tried to think of all the industries that have been radically transformed by the tsunami of the Internet. Internet has a way of altering the way of the land in many different ways because, fundamentally, it changes the way we all...