by Minter Dial | Jan 27, 2014 | Leadership, Politics
The latest scandal in France with President Hollande, regarding his First Lady-cum-Second-Girlfriend-cum-Three’s a Party, has brought to the forefront the divide between personal and professional life. In France, the refrain is frequent: what’s personal is...
by Minter Dial | Sep 17, 2013 | Politics
In the wake of the NSA/Prism revelations, it begins to become too big to ignore: everything is being or will be monitored. Privacy is becoming a central issue of the internet and, by extension, should be a central concern for all digital marketing teams. I have the...
by Minter Dial | Aug 30, 2013 | Marketing
In a world of quotations and sayings, it occurred to me recently that many of these old dictums have taken on new meaning in this fast-changing world. Whether because a noun has been co-opted or distorted, or the content of the saying now has a new reference,...
by Minter Dial | Oct 16, 2012 | Social Media
With Facebook now a publicly traded company, brands in some kind of perpetual disarray and consumers still not trusting marketers, the question occurred to me: is Facebook trying to be all things to all people: Earned, Owned and Paid media? A dance between brand, user...
by Minter Dial | Oct 9, 2012 | Leadership
The Unwanted Commy In English, “Comms” has long been the abbreviation for communications. In French, the term is “la Comm.” In both cases, the associated meaning is typically reduced to a rather unfortunate, if not pejorative, activity of...
