19th April, 2010 - Posted by Minter Dial - 3 Comments
Following on the heels of the post “Why NOT join Facebook” which I posted on slideshare a week ago, I have created its antidote, “Top 5 reasons why businesses should use Facebook.” Using the same style, it is posted only as a static presentation as opposed to the animated one with music which I use in » Read More
8th December, 2009 - Posted by Minter Dial - No Comments
I attended a presentation last week by Jean-Claude Larréché, famed marketing professor from INSEAD (still teaching there and also was there when I attended in 1993). Jean-Claude gave a short and punchy overview of the key points of his latest book, “The Momentum Effect” which was published by Wharton School Publishing last year and is » Read More
22nd October, 2009 - Posted by Minter Dial - 8 Comments
As part of my Franco-American profile, I am naturally drawn to reading about comparisons and competition between France and the US. I came across this May 2009 article, France Beats America, which describes France’s epicurean passion for “living it up” in terms of eating, sleeping and holidaying. On the eating front, as much » Read More
11th October, 2009 - Posted by Minter Dial - 1 Comment
Here are some more ideas for the mainstream media (MSM) to kick into high gear with their online community. With media titles dying or falling fallow on a daily basis, the MSM crisis seems just now to be hitting full stride. The number of recent closures has been drastic. In August, Condé Nast closed » Read More
28th September, 2009 - Posted by Minter Dial - No Comments
I was intrigued the other day to come across a laptop “ventilator” tablette (2300 revs / minute and 23.5 decibels) which is designed to evacuate the heat coming from your portable computer. What grabbed my attention initially, I must admit, was the transparent computer (trick photography of course to show the tablette). Produced by Macally, » Read More
26th September, 2009 - Posted by Minter Dial - 6 Comments
I have written in the past about sleep, in particular how interesting and revealing the study of sleep was for me at University (see here). What has always baffled me is that Sleep Researchers still have never scientifically proven why adult human beings need to sleep. We do know that if we » Read More
23rd August, 2009 - Posted by Minter Dial - No Comments
Written by Mitch Joel, a man [and social media guru] whom I have had the pleasure of being connected to for the past 5 years, “Six Pixels of Separation” has just come out in North America. I haven’t read the book yet, but I surely will. In the interim, I thought I’d post » Read More
12th May, 2009 - Posted by Minter Dial - 3 Comments
The Economist ran a special report (March 14, 2009) on Entrepreneurialism and there were several interesting and important points that I felt like writing about. The 16-page report discusses the state of entrepreneurship around the world. In some regards, the report contains an apologia for European entrepreneurship, at least as it pertains to » Read More
2nd April, 2009 - Posted by Minter Dial - No Comments
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 the act it would seem in » Read More
5th January, 2009 - Posted by Minter Dial - 1 Comment
With falling market prices, what is to become of the recycling market?If it were not difficult enough to raise funds in the current economic conditions for sustainable development, market prices for aluminium, paper, plastic and steel have been falling through the [corrugated] roof, making recycling a far less attractive business. As reported by » Read More
7th December, 2008 - Posted by Minter Dial - 13 Comments
Crisis, What Crisis? Bring forth the Internet As we spin into the depths of this worldwide economic crisis, the opportunity for companies to move to more efficient, effective and measurable marketing activities online seems perfectly obvious, if not natural. The time has never been more appropriate for companies to ramp up online activity because their » Read More
19th November, 2008 - Posted by Minter Dial - 2 Comments
A Search for the Ultimate “Way” in Sports, Business and Life When people refer to the Great One, MariO or COsby, or then again Michael JOrdan, BjOrn BOrg or Tiger WOOds, one would not be surprised to think that they all share a hidden talent. The hidden or invisible talent? Seeing things in slow » Read More
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