[Originally posted on the Huffington Post.] This is the seventh in a series of 14 posts expanding on Salzman’s forecasts for 2013 in her annual trends report, a program of global communications group Havas Worldwide. This year’s book, What’s Next? What to Expect in 2013, was published on 12/12/12 and is available at 120MBooks.com. Salzman [...]
Dec 20, 2012 | Categories:Features, Technology, Trends, Youth | Tags: 120M Books, Academic Room, Asia, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, blended learning, China, Codecademy, college, college degree, competition, constant schooling, Coursera, education, edX, Google, higher education, informal learning, Khan Academy, lifelong learning, Marian Salzman, massive open online courses, MOOC, neuroplasticity, online education, parenting, Singapore, skills, South Africa, student debt, Technology, the Huffington Post, Thomas Friedman, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, What's Next?, YouTube | 1 Comment »
It’s no secret that a pretty face can give job seekers a leg up during the hiring process, but new studies suggest that attractive men have the greatest advantage of all. Possibly that’s because HR departments are staffed predominantly by women, who want to filter out potential competition, but even when it’s men making the [...]
May 21, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Trends, Youth | Tags: Angelina Jolie, Asia, attractiveness, beauty, beauty trends, China, employment trends, Europe, hiring trends, human resources trends, Israel, job trends, psychology, standard of beauty, Toronto | Leave A Comment »
This is the 11th in a series of 12 posts expounding on the 2011 forecasts in the annual trends report from Salzman, president of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR and an internationally respected trendspotter. How does a trend get legs? Some trends start small and grow elephantine as if by force of nature, like the rise [...]
Dec 13, 2010 | Categories:CSR, Features, Health and Wellness, Technology, Trends | Tags: Africa, Android, Apple, apps, Asia, Black Friday, BusinessWeek, change, digital banking, Flipboard, Havas, Health and Wellness, IMF, innovators, iPad, iPhone, Jeff Bezos, Kindle, Latin America, Mark Penn, micro-inverters, Microtrends, minitrends, MIT, mobile, mobile banking, mobile phones, Mobile World Congress, Nokia, Project Masiluleke, recession, Renewable Energy World, Reuters News Pro, small-scale solar, SMS banking, South Africa, TechCrunch, Technology Review, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TMCnet, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, U.N. Foundation, Vodafone, women | 2 Comments »
Being new to trendspotting, I felt a little out of place at this year’s WorldFuture 2010 conference, put on by the World Future Society—as if I was the only person not developing some type of artificially intelligent machine in my basement. But I soon realized that there is a lot to learn and understand now [...]
Jul 20, 2010 | Categories:Advertising, Features, Marketing, Social Media, Trends | Tags: academia, Advertising, Africa, artificial intelligence, Asia, climate change, collective wisdom, Dennis Bushnell, economy, education, entrepreneurs, environment, Erica Orange, five-sense simulation, freshwater, Internet, Jared Weiner, Marketing, millennials, NASA, online, otaku, pushing boundaries, Sahara Desert, saltwater technologies, Social Media, trendspotting, tuition, Twitter, virtual world, Wikipedia, World Future Society, WorldFuture 2010 | 1 Comment »
