by Minter Dial | Apr 2, 2009 | Business, Marketing
THE MOST IMPORTANT DIGITAL LESSON I’VE LEARNED… I have picked this pearl of wisdom to share with you today: You can’t control what people say about you on the web, but you can be a good listener. This is from Walmart: Walmart has been getting into...
by Minter Dial | Mar 18, 2009 | Entertainment, Politics
It took a little bit of exploration on dead.net and Rolling Stone to find out — substantially after the fact — that the [revised Grateful] Dead played for Obama in the Mid-Atlantic inaugural ball (20 Jan 2009). No one I know was in attendance or perhaps...
by Minter Dial | Mar 6, 2009 | Marketing
This morning, I was piling through some old notes from a lecture I attended with Professor Miklos Sarvary at INSEAD, and this led me to plunge into the story of RCA whose 70-year tale is very rich. There is a great timeline available on NationMaster. RCA is a...
by Minter Dial | Feb 21, 2009 | Entertainment
by Minter Dial | Feb 4, 2009 | Entertainment
This is a most enjoyable rendition of California Dreaming, played by a rather young Korean boy, Sungha Jung. Mesmorizing. And I found myself watching it over and over, not just because I was trying to learn to play the song. As of this day, there have been over 2...