[Originally posted on Forbes.com.] In our ever more digitized and virtual world, the centers of power are shifting. It’s not about establishment capitals anymore but innovative up-and-comers, where a critical mass of creativity is bringing about rapid-fire change, along with a good quality of life and a sense of like-minded community. Some cities have been [...]
Oct 19, 2012 | Categories:Brands, Features, Insights, Politics, Technology, Trends, Youth | Tags: Brown University, Buddy Cianci, California, community, creativity, Facebook, Forbes, G-20, innovation, John F. Kennedy Jr., Juliån Castro, Luke Ravenstahl, Mark Zuckerberg, Obama, Palo Alto, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Promise, place, place making, power, Providence, San Antonio, Stanford University, Steve Jobs, Ted Kennedy, Youth | Leave A Comment »
Being obnoxious online now comes with a price. This year, two English football players were fined for posting homophobic tweets; a Swansea University student was sentenced to 56 days in jail for posting racist tweets about an ailing British footballer; an Indiana high school student was expelled after tweeting an F-bomb; and a U.S. Marine [...]
Jul 06, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Social Media, Trends | Tags: ACLU, anonymous commenting, Australia Facebook, California, cyberbullying, Daytona 500, Fabrice Muamba, Facebook, Liam Stacey, Manhattan District Attorney’s office, Marine Twitter, Occupy Wall Street, online commenting, Social Media, social media accountability, social media punishment, social media trends, SoMe, Suneel Mehta, Swansea University, Trayvon Martin, Twitter | Leave A Comment »
Not so long ago, if we wanted our children to get ahead, we’d see to it that they skipped a grade. But more of today’s children, in America especially, are being held back so as to have a competitive advantage over their classmates. “60 Minutes” reports that nearly a quarter of some kindergarten classrooms are [...]
Apr 17, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Marketing, Trends, Youth | Tags: "60 Minutes", California, CBS, child development, children, early childhood, education trends, helicopter parents, hyperparenting, kindergarten, Kindergarten Readiness Act, Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, parenting trends, redshirting | Leave A Comment »
Measles wreaked havoc in Europe this year with 26,000 cases and nine deaths. A public health official there says she blames the epidemic on ever-lower vaccination rates as more parents grow skeptical about the rumored side effects of some immunizations. Last year in California, 10 infants died in a pertussis outbreak (only one of the [...]
Jan 06, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Trends | Tags: Australia, babies, California, children, China, communicable diseases, diseases, epidemics, Europe, health trends, immunizations, pharmaceutical companies, public health, vaccinations, vaccines | Leave A Comment »
This is the fifth 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. Watch out in 2011 for the return of skin-thickening boot camps to toughen up kids and employees for the rigors of the [...]
Dec 03, 2010 | Categories:Features, Trends | Tags: "60 Minutes", achievement gap, African American, Asian American, authoritative, boot camps, California, Caucasian, China, competitiveness, Deloitte, engineering, entitlement, experience, helicopter parents, Hispanic, India, kids, Michael Bloomberg, millennials, New York City, overprotection, parenting, Pew Research, resilience, Ron Alsop, science, self-discipline, team-oriented, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Tom Friedman, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, trophy kids, young people | 5 Comments »
You’d have to live under a rock to not have been swept up by, or at least heard of, the latest culinary craze: food trucks. California has always had its taco trucks, but now you can find gourmet crepes, sophisticated meatball sandwiches and even schnitzel on a corner or curb near you. L.A., Austin and [...]
Dec 03, 2010 | Categories:Advertising, Features, Social Media, Trends | Tags: Advertising, Austin, Brands, California, consumers, Facebook, followers, food fests, food trucks, gourmet food trucks, Heavenly, Heinz, Lake Tahoe, Los Angeles, mobile billboard, New York, Social Media, The New York Times, tweet, Twitter, Zagat | Leave A Comment »
Trendspotting: Payback Time
Being obnoxious online now comes with a price. This year, two English football players were fined for posting homophobic tweets; a Swansea University student was sentenced to 56 days in jail for posting racist tweets about an ailing British footballer; an Indiana high school student was expelled after tweeting an F-bomb; and a U.S. Marine [...]
Jul 06, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Social Media, Trends | Tags: ACLU, anonymous commenting, Australia Facebook, California, cyberbullying, Daytona 500, Fabrice Muamba, Facebook, Liam Stacey, Manhattan District Attorney’s office, Marine Twitter, Occupy Wall Street, online commenting, Social Media, social media accountability, social media punishment, social media trends, SoMe, Suneel Mehta, Swansea University, Trayvon Martin, Twitter | Leave A Comment »