by Minter Dial | Apr 20, 2011 | Social Media
The hockey stick effect We have all seen and/or read about tipping points and hockey stick curves. Digital media seems to be full of them. None seem more powerful than the one below: the rise in awareness of Twitter in the US 2008-2010. Perhaps...
by Minter Dial | Apr 18, 2011 | Social Media
An Unvieling of Facebook’s Growth Not that we need to keep weekly tabs on the meteroic rise of Facebook, but there was something a little curious about the statistics that were published (thanks to CheckFacebook) about the fastest growing Facebook countries last...
by Minter Dial | Mar 16, 2011 | Minter Dialogue, Politics
I had the chance to meet François Pétavy, a fellow INSEAD alum, who is CEO of Eyeka, a successful French start-up providing a co-creation and crowdsourcing platform for brands around the world. Eyeka manages a community of over 140,000 creative consumers who...
by Minter Dial | Dec 26, 2010 | Social Media
Year-end 2011 Retrospective A 2011 retrospective It is Boxing Day, 2011… aka December 26th. I write this post as I have been asked to write a little recap of the year that has just passed. Oh, and what a year it has been, I hear you say. A...
by Minter Dial | Oct 17, 2010 | Social Media
The issue of privacy is a little schizophrenic. In any event, it is strategic and worldwide in scope as far as developing one’s business online. We all say we want our privacy, and yet we do not want to be treated as a number. Yet, for...