by Minter Dial | Jun 21, 2011 | Social Media
Discretion in Selection To the extent that Twitter is becoming the go-to resource for finding information and staying up to date, the real value of Twitter is in the quality of those you follow. This means that you need to be selective about who you follow. There are...
by Minter Dial | Jun 19, 2011 | Social Media
Have you noticed that the social media frontier is lined with women? An article in USA Today “Groupon Mania ignites fight for ad dollars with deals” alerted me to a fact: women are playing a larger role in social media business than is the case in ‘regular’ business....
by Minter Dial | Jun 14, 2011 | Social Media
The Experiment & the Experience: What happened? In this prior post, I described how I decided to put together a social media experiment around the celebration of my grandfather’s 100th birthday. He died December 15, 1944 and surely would have been flummoxed...
by Minter Dial | Jun 13, 2011 | Social Media, WWII
An idea, a cause & Facebook On March 21st, 2011, I celebrated with 70 other people around the world what would have been my grandfather’s 100th birthday. Although my grandfather, after whom I was named, was killed December 15, 1944, I wanted to pay tribute...
by Minter Dial | Jun 12, 2011 | Social Media
The photo versus the word Inspired by a post by Jim Connolly at Internet Marketing Jam {post now taken down}, that talks about the power of the image, I thought I would take a different spin. Yes, I fully agree that the image grabs the attention and that a photo...