Now that all the college kids in my neighborhood are back at school after the year-end holidays and January terms, I’ve been thinking about parent-child connectivity. (My children are still small, but in our always-on world, I know I’ll have to address this sooner than I might think.) I heard a story not too long [...]
Feb 13, 2013 | Categories:Features, Insights, Social Media, Technology, Youth | Tags: cellphone, child, children, college, connection, connectivity, day care, email, Facebook, George Washington University, helicopter parent, involvement, National Survey of Student Engagement, NPR, parent, parenting, phone, preschool, smartphone, student, text, tweet, Twitter | 1 Comment »
[Originally posted on the Huffington Post.] This is the final post in a series of 14 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 [...]
Jan 25, 2013 | Categories:Features, Technology, Trends | Tags: 120M Books, Africa, American Indian, authenticity, Co, collaboration, connection, connectivity, creativity, dads, drought, England, extreme weather, fatigue, future, gender, Hurricane Sandy, India, mancession, Mediterranean, men, mind and mood, moms, native, peak water, prediction, reality, simple, the American West, the Netherlands, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, water, weather, What's Next?, women | Leave A Comment »
Originally posted on Fuel the Future. Let’s face it: We are living in an over-networked world, with very few boundaries between life, love and work. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what all this connection means to our already overly scheduled lives and what the payoff is from having thousands of Facebook friends or [...]
Jul 05, 2011 | Categories:Features, Social Media, Technology | Tags: blur, connection, connectivity, Facebook, friends, friendship, gay marriage, Inside Facebook, investment, job seekers, LinkedIn, network, networking, New York, online, ROI, Social Media, social networks, Twitter | 2 Comments »
As someone who has made a career of tracking trends, I have not let this whole notion of local gone loco escape my sights. I’ve talked for a while about global going local, due in large part not only to our newfound connectivity on all things social media, but also to our renewed interest in [...]
May 09, 2011 | Categories:Features, Social Media, Trends | Tags: antisocial, Bowling Alone, city life, city living, community, Connecticut, connectivity, global going local, Howard Hughes, local, Local is the new global, localism, Manhattan, Social Media, suburbs | Leave A Comment »
Originally posted on the Huffington Post. This is the first in a series of four. See Euro RSCG Worldwide PR’s latest white paper, “Love (and Sex) in the Age of Social Media,” for more analysis about how Americans think about online romance. It’s Valentine’s Day once again, when lonely hearts turn to thoughts of love, [...]
Feb 14, 2011 | Categories:Features, Insights, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: Classmates.com, connectivity, e-dating, eHarmony, eroticism, Euro RSCG Worldwide, face-to-face, Facebook, GreenFriends.com, JDate, love, mainstream, Match.com, matchmaking, mobile apps, Net Gain, online attraction, online dating, online relationships, online romance, Pew, preview dating, romantic desire, Serendipity, sex, Social Media, social networking, SoMe, soul mate, Trek Passions, Trends, Valentine's Day, Wired | 3 Comments »
This is the third 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. There’s a loss-of-faith crisis, and it’s as movement-ready as the one that led Jerry Rubin to pen the Yippie manifesto in 1968. [...]
Dec 01, 2010 | Categories:Advertising, Features, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: Amazon, Barbra Streisand, Brands, Chemistry.com, China, communication, connectivity, consumption, convenience, Copains d'avant, CPM, Diet Coke, divorce, Duck Sauce, e-commerce, eBay, eHarmony, Facebook, faith, Foursquare, France, FreshDirect, Google, Gowalla, India, ineractivity, institutions, Internet, iPhone, Japan, Jerry Rubin, LinkedIn, Match.com, Mentos, Microsoft, mobile, niche, Orkut, personal CPMs, QQ, Richard Nixon, self-reliance, smart phone, Social Media, Technology, Thumbman, Trends, trendspotting, Twitter, U.K., values, Yahoo, Yippie, YouTube | 8 Comments »
