by Minter Dial | Jan 13, 2012 | Education
Learning Organizations: New ways of managing As companies grapple with the effects and opportunities of the Internet, social media and the smartphone, internal organizations are having to adapt and transform to accommodate new ways of communicating, new marketing...
by Minter Dial | Mar 12, 2011 | Education, Social Media
Cutting up your speech into 140-character Tweets A few nights ago, I was asked to deliver a speech at a Media Aces dinner on what makes a great presentation. Below is a resume of what I said, but the point I wanted to highlight, thanks to a comment by Fadhila Brahimi...
by Minter Dial | Feb 17, 2011 | Education, Responsibility
“Exposed” is a very well crafted 10-minute video, launched just this past February 8th, 2011, that shows the wickedly fast way one’s life can get turned upside down by one unwise action. Out of a seemingly innocent act of sharing a photo with...
by Minter Dial | Jul 31, 2010 | Education
How often have you attended a training seminar and left thinking “that was great… but was it really worth it?” In my experience, here is, broadly, what happens in a typical 2-day off-site seminar: Much harried and run down from an exhausting...
by Minter Dial | Aug 6, 2009 | Education
For all of you living outside of the US who write the date ‘normally’ (i.e. DD/MM/YY), tomorrow morning the time and date will read: 04:05:06 07/08/09 five minutes and six seconds after 4 AM in the morning of the 7th of August 2009 If nothing else, pause...
by Minter Dial | Aug 5, 2009 | Education
For the guitar players out there who don’t play as often as they might like (or are just starting up), I thought this “how to” was rather good. Ease Finger Soreness when Learning to Play Guitar – wikiHow My favourite ideas in this list:...