by Minter Dial | Nov 5, 2012 | Social Media
Geo-Loco : More loco than Local I have gradually begun to ween myself off of Foursquare. Gone are the competitive days where I feverishly checked in to see how many points I had won. One of my prouder check-ins was worth 16 points (see right) when I accumulated miles...
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 12, 2012 | Responsibility, Social Media
I attended the Hub Forum 2012, founded and run by Vincent Ducrey and Emmanuel Vivier, in Paris this week. It’s a grand event, attracting the luminaries of the net in France, the top brass of the French ad agencies as well as some high profile managers in...
by Minter Dial | Oct 10, 2012 | Social Media
If your boss comes to you and says, “Hey, why don’t we make a viral video?” you might want to consider running for the woods. As a brand, the chances of successfully making a video that goes viral is rather small and the odds can get much worse...
by Minter Dial | Oct 5, 2012 | Social Media
What is content marketing? There are plenty of great sources for defining what is content marketing, and none better than the entry in Wikipedia: Content marketing is “the creation and sharing of content in order to attract, acquire and engage clearly...
by Minter Dial | Sep 30, 2012 | Social Media
Minter Dialogue #35 This interview is with Andrew Grill, CEO of KRED, for real-time transparent community-based influence measurement. Measuring online influence is a hot field and one that typically galvanizes conversation. I met Andrew at the LikeMinds...