[Originally published on Stamford magazine's website.] As a trendspotter, my eyes tend to be forever focused on the future, but one of my favorite ways to look back is through various linguists’ and lexicographers’ annual words of the year lists. For 2012, the rearview mirrors at the major dictionaries focused on big cultural trends and [...]
Feb 15, 2013 | Categories:Features, Insights, Trends | Tags: American Dialect Society, campaign, capitalism, dictionary, GIF, hashtag, Merriam-Webster, metrosexual, Open Dictionary, Oxford Dictionaries, Sandy, socialism, Stamford, terms, trending topics, Trends, trendspotter, vocabulary, words | Leave A Comment »
Originally posted on the Huffington Post. In my travels around the world, I’ve (over)heard a lot of ways for people to say they’ve reached a point of no return with their frustration, feeling so full of stress that they’re stirred from passive acceptance to action. Some cultures say it’s “the drop that makes the jar [...]
Sep 13, 2011 | Categories:Features, Insights, Politics, Social Media, Youth | Tags: #WakeUpCall, American Dream, anger, Arab Spring, Bob Geldof, brand, capitalism, change, consumer behavior, Crown Prince Haakon, Desmond Tutu, economy, Financial Times, frustration, global business, Howard Schultz, interfaith dialogue, Jamie Oliver, Joseph Stiglitz, leadership, Libya, Main Street, middle class, Middle East, Moammar Gadhafi, Mohamed El-Erian, One Young World, protest, riot, social justice, stress, trendspotter, trendspotting, unemployment, Vanity Fair, Wall Street, Warren Buffett, YouGovStone, Youth | Leave A Comment »
This is the sixth 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. We hear the word “reinventing” applied to systems all the time: reinventing capitalism, reinventing credit options. Reinventing health care, politics, journalism, food, [...]
Dec 06, 2010 | Categories:Features, Health and Wellness, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: airport security, Arizona State University, Barack Obama, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, capitalism, change, Cindy Sherman, credit, Daily Beast, entrepreneurs, Europe, Flint, Health and Wellness, innovators, Ireland, Jewish Museum, journalismf, Madonna, Marc Andreessen, Martin Luther King Jr., Maslow's pyramid, Match.com, Michigan, midlife, mobile photo sharing, mycasting, Netscape, online dating sites, ood, Oprah, optimism, Peace Corps, PicPlz, Politics, recession, recommitment, reflection, refocus, reinvention, resiliency, retirement, Roger Ebert, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Social Media, SoMe, Spain, tech, TED, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, U.S., we can, Yes | 3 Comments »
