Minter Dialogue #61

This interview is with Giles Corbett, a fellow INSEAD alumnus, who runs Libon, as part of the Orange Group. Libon is an innovative OTT service that provides a radically different experience to ordinary voice mail.  For example, it transcribes voice messages into text with surprising accuracy.  Beyond voice mail functionality, Libon also provides VOIP services and is building a community.  It’s available in four different languages.  Personally, I’m a user and a fan, so I wanted to get to know more about the Libon business, and how it works within the Orange context. I do hope you’ll enjoy the conversation.

For those of you who are regular listeners, you will find a new jingle at the beginning of the show, courtesy of my friend, Pierre Journel, author of the Guitar Channel. I invite you to take a spin!

You can sign up to the Minter Dialogue podcast here via iTunes.

To get Libon or connect with Giles Corbett:

• You can follow Giles at Twitter on @gicorb
• Sign up for Libon on iTunes
• Sign up on Google Play

Site (app) mentioned by Giles:

• Hailo for London taxis : www.hailo.com

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Meanwhile, you can find my other English-speaking interviews on the Minter Dialogue Radio Show on Buzzsprout or via iTunes. Please don’t be shying about rating this podcast on iTunes! And for the francophones reading this, if you want to get more podcasts, you can also find my radio show en français over at : MinterDial.fr, on Buzzsprout or in iTunes.

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Minter Dialogue #60

This interview is with Doug Hewett, who is the co-founder — along with Brook Calverly — and Managing Director at the newly formed People-Made, a brand consultancy at the cross-section of brand, culture and social. Doug comes from a strong background in branding via the Engage Group and then at Interbrand. Doug and I share a number of common passions and connections. In this podcast, we discuss the challenges faced with organizations in becoming social businesses, including the pitfalls and roadblocks of making the necessary transformation. A vital topic and I hope you’ll find a vibrant conversation for anyone interested in branding.

For those of you who are regular listeners, you will find a new jingle at the beginning of the show, courtesy of my friend, Pierre Journel, author of the Guitar Channel. I invite you to take a spin!

Meanwhile, you can always sign up to the Minter Dialogue podcast here via iTunes.

To follow People Made:

• People Made on Twitter
  
• A post about Patagonia: Brand is what brand does!

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Further resources for the Minter Dialogue Radio Show:

Meanwhile, you can find my other English-speaking interviews on the Minter Dialogue Radio Show on Buzzsprout or via iTunes. Please don’t be shying about rating this podcast on iTunes! And for the francophones reading this, if you want to get more podcasts, you can also find my radio show en français over at : MinterDial.fr, on Buzzsprout or in iTunes.

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Minter Dialogue #59

This interview is with Valorie Reavis, the founder of the LinkUp Marketing Agency, based in Belmont Shore California, and dedicated to an industry I know only too well: hair and beauty! Valorie is also the mastermind behind the Shout Lounge, a social media and business tool, specialized for professional salons. In fact, Valorie has a strong international background in the beauty business, having worked on the salon business software side. Since it’s an area of predilection for me, I wanted to invite Valorie on the show to discuss the opportunities and challenges for small businesses, such as hairdressing salons and spas, to use digital and social media to drive their business. Hope you enjoy the show!

For those of you who are regular listeners to this podcast, you will find a new jingle at the beginning of the show, courtesy of my friend, Pierre Journel, author of the Guitar Channel. If you enjoy guitar & music, I invite you to take a spin!

You can sign up to the Minter Dialogue podcast here via iTunes.

To connect with Valorie and her digital marketing organization:

• LinkUp Marketing – digital marketing consulting & agency
• The Shout Lounge – Social Media management service (Don’t forget the 30-day trial)

Sites mentioned by Valorie:

• Suki Hairdressing in Sydney Australia – Check out the Suki Facebook page (over 5K fans)
• Drybar – chain of salons, with 53K fans for their FB page

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Further resources for the Minter Dialogue Radio Show:

Meanwhile, you can find my other English-speaking interviews on the Minter Dialogue Radio Show on Buzzsprout or via iTunes. Please don’t be shying about rating this podcast on iTunes! And for the francophones reading this, if you want to get more podcasts, you can also find my radio show en français over at : MinterDial.fr, on Buzzsprout or in iTunes.

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Minter Dialogue #58

This interview is with Francis Pisani, a truly polyglot esteemed journalist, author and professor from France, who has taught at some of the most established institutions in the world, including Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico. In 2011, Francis launched Winch5, a worldwide tour looking at innovation in its different forms. I had the good fortune to meet Francis through our collaboration at Netexplo, the observatory of new technologies with which I’ve been associated since leaving L’Oreal. In this interview, we discuss some of his lessons learned from his voyage around the world, how innovation is happening in surprising and different ways, and how countries, cities and companies are looking to insert innovation into their DNA.

If you enjoyed this show, you can sign up to the Minter Dialogue podcast here via iTunes.

To connect with Francis Pisani:

• You can send an email to Francis Pisani here
• Or follow Francis Pisani on Twitter (where you will see he tweets in multiple languages!)

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Further resources for the Minter Dialogue Radio Show:

Meanwhile, you can find my other English-speaking interviews on the Minter Dialogue Radio Show on Buzzsprout or via iTunes. Please don’t be shying about rating this podcast on iTunes! And for the francophones reading this, if you want to get more podcasts, you can also find my radio show en français over at : MinterDial.fr, on Buzzsprout or in iTunes.

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Minter Dialogue #57

This interview is with Patrick Powers, a Danish-born entrepreneur, living in greater London. Patrick, who has written a couple of books, runs the vibrant Entrepreneurs in London club and works on helping SMBs on their email marketing and social media strategies. In this podcast, we discuss the importance of creating a conversation and how social media may impact marketing strategies. If you are interested in social media and email marketing, hopefully you will enjoy Patrick’s perspective as well as some tips and tricks and a special offer for his program.

Please do sign up to the Minter Dialogue podcast here via iTunes.

To connect with Patrick M Powers:

• You can find Patrick Powers via his main site
• Patrick Powers on Facebook

Sites mentioned by Patrick

• Facebook Marketing Toolbox
• Marketing Transformation Today
  
• Patrick’s book: Only Suckers Settle For Less…

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Further resources for the Minter Dialogue Radio Show:

Meanwhile, you can find my other English-speaking interviews on the Minter Dialogue Radio Show on Buzzsprout or via iTunes. Please don’t be shying about rating this podcast on iTunes! And for the francophones reading this, if you want to get more podcasts, you can also find my radio show en français over at : MinterDial.fr, on Buzzsprout or in iTunes.

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Minter Dialogue #55

Alex Connock

If you are interested in the world of digital media and the making of great videos, you’ll want to listen up to this interview. It’s with Alex Connock, Managing Director of Shine On Digital (Multiplatform TV/Video Digital Agency) and Shine North (TV production), based in the UK, and part of the Shine Group.  With Alex, we talk about how the world of video is evolving, what are the best ways to make, distribute and monetize video, as well as the relevance of having a social media presence as a senior executive.

Please do think to sign up to the Minter Dialogue podcast here via iTunes.

To connect with Alex Connock:

• Alex Connock is on Twitter

Some sites and great videos mentioned by Alex

• Unilever Clear campaign in China: “Unbeatable” (write-up in AdAge)
• Nail Something YouTube Channel
• SecondSync – social TV analytics

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Further resources for the Minter Dialogue Radio Show:

Meanwhile, you can find my other English-speaking interviews on the Minter Dialogue Radio Show on Buzzsprout or via iTunes. Please don’t be shying about rating this podcast on iTunes! And for the francophones reading this, if you want to get more podcasts, you can also find my radio show en français over at : MinterDial.fr, on Buzzsprout or in iTunes.

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Minter Dialogue #54

This interview is with Adrien Henni, co-founder and chief editor of East West Digital News, an English language media focused on the evolving Russian digital market. He is also advisor to FaberNovel, the innovation consultancy out of Paris.  In this interview, we discuss the Russian digital landscape, some of the latest innovations to come out of Russia and some of the keys to doing business and digital marketing in Russia.

You can also sign up to the Minter Dialogue podcast here via iTunes.

To connect with Adrien Henni and East West Digital News:

• Adrien Henni on Linkedin
• East West Digital News on Facebook
• East West Digital News on Twitter

Sites mentioned by Adrien Henni

• Innovation in Russia – now the #14 in the world according to the Global Innovation Index by Bloomberg
• Linkedin is indeed in Russian
• Displair – next generation screens
• Dora from Intersoft – mobile applications with radioactivity meter (EWDN article about Dora)
• Pinterest in Russia: pinme.ru (Pinterest copy cat)
• eCommerce in Russia by EWDN

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Further resources for the Minter Dialogue Radio Show:

Meanwhile, you can find my other English-speaking interviews on the Minter Dialogue Radio Show on Buzzsprout or via iTunes. Please don’t be shying about rating this podcast on iTunes! And for the francophones reading this, if you want to get more podcasts, you can also find my radio show en français over at : MinterDial.fr, on Buzzsprout or in iTunes.

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Minter Dialogue #53 – Reports from Netexplo

In the second of the series, here is an interview with Netexplo Forum 2013 award winner, Matt Stempeck.  Matt created LazyTruth, an open source system to help us vet the false from the true with those mails coming from well-intentioned friends. LazyTruth was one of the top 10 award winners at the Netexplo Forum (Feb 14-15), where we look at the new technology trends the world over. Matt is part of team at MIT Media Labs, studying the future of journalism and media, social media and social change. LazyTruth is a fabulous project for anyone looking to get a cleaner inbox and ridding us of those fallacious viral emails!  You can read up more about the Netexplo 2013 Forum here in a prior post.

You can sign up to the Minter Dialogue podcast here via iTunes.

To read more about LazyTruth here:

• Netexplo PDF Report on LazyTruth
• Engadget Writeup on Lazy Truth
• Bad Data blog write up (out of France)

Follow Matt Stempeck

• Matt Stempeck @mstem on Twitter

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Further resources for the Minter Dialogue Radio Show:

Meanwhile, you can find my other English-speaking interviews on the Minter Dialogue Radio Show on Buzzsprout or via iTunes. Please don’t be shying about rating this podcast on iTunes! And for the francophones reading this, if you want to get more podcasts, you can also find my radio show en français over at : MinterDial.fr, on Buzzsprout or in iTunes.

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Minter Dialogue #52 – Reports from Netexplo

Some of you will hopefully have followed the Netexplo Forum 2013, 14-15 February, where we look at the new technology trends the world over. I was able to catch up with a few of the prize winners. This first interview is with Dr Nanshu Lu, the Grand Winner of the Netexplo 2013 Awards. Her project, Electronic Tattoos, is absolutely stunning.  Among her many achievements, Nanshu was identified in 2012 as one of the world’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35 by Technology Review Magazine.  In this interview, Nanshu, who has a Ph.D from Harvard in Mechanics of Materials, describes what Electronic Tattoos are and some of the potential applications.

You can sign up to the Minter Dialogue podcast here via iTunes.

Curving, tiny wires in Lu’s “Electronic Tattoo” form a soft and pliable mesh.
Photograph by Nanshu Lu and Alex Jerez

About Nanshu Lu’s Electronic Tattoos project:

• Nanshu Lu’s profile page at University of Texas Austin 
• You can download the Netexplo Report on Electronic Tattoos here (pdf)

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Further resources for the Minter Dialogue Radio Show:

Meanwhile, you can find my other English-speaking interviews on the Minter Dialogue Radio Show on Buzzsprout or via iTunes. Please don’t be shying about rating this podcast on iTunes! And for the francophones reading this, if you want to get more podcasts, you can also find my radio show en français over at : MinterDial.fr, on Buzzsprout or in iTunes.

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Minter Dialogue #51

This interview is with Roland Whitehead, CEO and founder of Quru. Quru is an IT services company specialized in Linux and other open source solutions, and is the fastest-growing Red Hat solution provider in the UK. In this conversation, we look at how companies can use open source to create apps and bespoke effective software solutions based on open source options. We also talk about the community of Open Source and the world of hackers, the Raspberry Pi and more.  It’s not a topic that I have covered previously on the show, so I hope you enjoy the discovery of the Open Source world!

You can sign up to the Minter Dialogue podcast here via iTunes.

To connect with Roland Whitehead:

• Roland Whitehead on Linkedin

Sites mentioned by Roland Whitehead

• Raspberry Pi
• Redhat
• River Simple (Rory Spowers) for the Electric Car

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Further resources for the Minter Dialogue Radio Show:

Meanwhile, you can find my other English-speaking interviews on the Minter Dialogue Radio Show on Buzzsprout or via iTunes. Please don’t be shying about rating this podcast on iTunes! And for the francophones reading this, if you want to get more podcasts, you can also find my radio show en français over at : MinterDial.fr, on Buzzsprout or in iTunes.

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