[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 »
Today is exceptional for numerous reasons—just ask the thousands of couples who plan to get married on this special date: 12/12/12. For Havas PR, this day (the last triple date for 100 years) marks the finale of one terrific agency initiative and the debut of our next one. (120M Books is what it’s called; read [...]
Dec 12, 2012 | Categories:CSR, Features, PR, Trends | Tags: #GivingTuesday, 12 Days of Havas, 12/12/12, 120M Books, 2013, airbnb, Bob Woodruff Foundation, corporate social responsibility, CSR, David Jones, Delete Blood Cancer, e-publishing, education, event planning, GMHC, Havas PR, Havas Worldwide, Home Base Program, Hurricane Sandy, Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program, K.I.D.S., love, media relations, money, One Young World, Pajama Program, PR News CSR A-List, relationships, Ronald McDonald House of New York, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, University of Arizona, Venture for America, weather, What's Next? | Leave A Comment »
[Originally posted on the Huffington Post.] This is the third 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, will be published on 12/12/12 and available at 120MBooks.com. Salzman [...]
Dec 07, 2012 | Categories:Features, Technology, Trends, Youth | Tags: austerity, Collaborative Consumption, college, consumer confidence, debt, double dip, education, Europe, food stamps, frugal consumption, Greece, millennials, poverty, sharing economy, Spain, Technology, the economy, the Huffington Post, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, unemployment, virtual, What's Next? | Leave A Comment »
[Originally posted on Euro RSCG’s Social Life and Social Media blog.] It’s the end of the summer, and well-rested students are loading up their trunks and heading back to school. In the upcoming weeks, campuses will be abuzz again—the summer silence replaced with the energy of a new school year. Amid the summer stories recounted [...]
Aug 27, 2012 | Categories:Features, Social Media, Technology, Trends, Youth | Tags: Apple, Babson Survey Research Group, back to school, Bill Gates, Bloomberg.com, college, college debt, diploma, education, entrepreneurialism, Facebook, Internet, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, PayPal, Peter Thiel, Pink Floyd, Steve Jobs, students loans, Thiel Fellowship | Leave A Comment »
We already knew women were better educated than men; now, it seems they’re more ambitious, too, with two-thirds saying they’re chasing a high-paying career, compared with 59 percent of men. Don’t think, though, that means more women are giving up on hopes of motherhood: Six in 10 say being a good parent is one of [...]
Aug 08, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Insights, Marketing, Trends | Tags: ambition, attachment parenting, career trends, college corporate trends, education, female, feminism, mommy guilt, online freelancers, parenting, parenting trends, The Conflict How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women, women, women trends, work survey | Leave A Comment »
With leadership in crisis, work-life juggling acts getting tougher, and Twitter and Facebook leading conversations, ethical C-suite executives today have a great opportunity to stand out by showing their true colors and connecting with their employees, their customers and their communities. Marian Salzman, CEO of @erwwpr, is spearheading agency thought leadership on the issue with [...]
Jul 23, 2012 | Categories:Agency News, Brands, Insights, Social Media | Tags: branding, business leaders, C-suite, CEO, CEO branding, CEOs, conversation, education, Facebook, leadership, Social Media, thought leadership, Twitter | Leave A Comment »
This is the fifth in a series of 10 posts about different aspects of CEO branding. At every level, the future of America depends on raising the educational level of the whole population. Gone are the mass-production jobs that allowed low-skilled people to get work in a factory operating a machine and earn a pretty [...]
Jul 20, 2012 | Categories:Brands, Features, Insights, Youth | Tags: business leaders, business school deans, C-suite, Caterpillar, CEO, CEO branding, CEOs, college, early-childhood education, education, James Owens, labor, learning, M.B.A., management, North Carolina State University, strategic thinking, The Wall Street Journal, university | Leave A Comment »
In anything we do, I believe we begin as the underdog until we work hard to prove ourselves. To prove myself, over the past few years I have worked hard to maintain a consistent work schedule and use every second of time toward the success of my future. As I have come to my last [...]
Jun 07, 2012 | Categories:Insights, One Young House | Tags: education, freedom, internship, passion, résumé, work | Leave A Comment »
Lots of us remember grade school for the notes we passed under desks and the secrets we whispered on the playground … to best friends. But some English schools are adopting “best friend bans” to save their students from the pain of “breaking up” with a friend later on. This kind of practice is redolent [...]
May 22, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Social Media, Technology, Trends, Youth | Tags: best friends, childhood, children, education, education trends, elementary school, friendship, friendship trends, helicopter parents, parenting, parenting trends, psychology, psychology trends, smartphones, Social Media, text messaging | Leave A Comment »
[Originally posted on the Huffington Post.] Now that the recession has retreated just a bit from American shores, we’re being allowed a better look at its aftermath. To be frank, it’s not pretty, especially for millennials and their parents. Many of the latter co-signed on student loans and must cope with the loss of a [...]
Mar 23, 2012 | Categories:Features, Insights, Youth | Tags: American Dream, American optimism, AmeriCorps, college, education, helicopter parents, millennials, millennials unemployment, mortgage crisis, prime crisis, recession, STEM, STEM degrees, student loan debt, student loans, unemployment, value of education | Leave A Comment »
As more U.S. states look to legitimize cannabis as a medical treatment, new studies indicate that for their part teens are using less tobacco and engaging in less underage drinking but smoking more pot. (Teens’ misuse of prescription medications like Vicodin is also stable or declining.) Daily use of marijuana among teens is 7 percent, [...]
Jan 23, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Trends, Youth | Tags: adolescents, Australia, cocaine, drug abuse, drug trends, education, Georgia, heroin, high school, illegal drug trends, illicit drugs, Kenya, marijuana, medical marijuana, New Zealand, pot, prescription drugs, substance abuse, Teens, Vicodin, youth trends | Leave A Comment »
A Major Upheaval U.S. college students are encouraged to major in STEM fields to fill empty positions and rev the economy When it comes to the American job market, or lack thereof, there are some troubling incongruities. For instance: Why, with 14 million people pounding the pavement looking for work, do 52 percent of U.S. [...]
Oct 17, 2011 | Categories:Brainsnacks | Tags: college, cultural trends, economy, education, job market, jobs, majors, millennials, STEM degrees, students, Technology, unemployment, university, workers | Leave A Comment »
This is the ninth 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. “The dollies got restless.” This line from an article in Newsweek in March 2010 remembering the landmark 1970 class-action suit that 46 [...]
Dec 09, 2010 | Categories:Features, Trends | Tags: class-action suit, developed nations, education, female, fertility rates, gender bias, gender equity, gender gap, gender parity, gender roles, glass ceiling, Harvard Business Review, health, Hillary Clinton, male, men, Ms., Newsweek, self-empowerment, sex object, sexual politics, Title IX, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, women, World Economic Forum, worth | Leave A Comment »
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 »
