Informed Consent

My husband and I are both on Facebook and share many—but not all—of the same online friends. I’m generally a more prolific user of social media than he is and update my Facebook status more often, with text, photos and location-based check-ins. I know that his universe of friends includes co-workers, friends and clients, so [...]
Jul 25, 2011 | Categories:Features, Social Media | Tags: children, consent, Facebook, Flickr, friends, Gogle, Google Chrome, parenting, photos, pictures, privacy, Social Media, social networks, Twitter, YouTube | 1 Comment »
No Photos, Please

I am not a picture person. Sure, I’m fascinated by everyone’s pictures on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and everywhere else in between. But in a world gone picture-obsessed and photo-sharing-wild, I wonder how I might be the only person on the planet who doesn’t document my life through photographs? I’m taking license here to try and [...]
Apr 20, 2011 | Categories:Features, Insights, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: blogs, Brown University, Cameron Diaz, celebrity, digital, Elf Yourself, Facebook, Fashion, Flickr, images, Kodak culture, LA Fitness, Middle East, New York City, OfficeMax, photos, physics, pictures, Richard Avedon, Richard Chalfen, Social Media, social media etiquette, Twitter | Leave A Comment »
Who’s in Control?

This is the tenth 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. Remember “The Gong Show,” where there was the loud bonnnnnng to save contestants from catastrophe’s bottomless pit? Hello, Central Casting…. Has anybody [...]
Dec 10, 2010 | Categories:Features, Politics, Trends | Tags: 24/7 news, addictions, Barbara Billingsley, Beatles, Blue Velvet, Bono, Christine O'Donnell, conservatives, control, David Cameron, Dennis Hopper, Europe, failed banks, FDIC, Flickr, France, G-20, Great Britain, Iceland, Ireland, Jean Monnet, June Cleaver, liberals, loss of faith, Media, nostalgia, pension funds, Portugal, Seoul, Spain, Tea Party, The Guardian, the Netherlands, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting | 2 Comments »
Rethinking the Presidency

Originally posted on the Huffington Post. President Obama’s latest poll numbers may be decent—a New York Times/CBS News poll found that he has higher approval ratings than the GOP, and that more Americans blame Congress, George W. Bush and Wall Street for our problems than they do him—but we hoped for better than decent from [...]
Feb 17, 2010 | Categories:Features, Politics, Social Media | Tags: campaign, economy, Facebook, Flickr, Health and Wellness, Media, men, Obama, recession, social networks, women, YouTube | Leave A Comment »
Social Media, Defined

In the PR business, our thoughts have turned to social marketing, social networks, the social Web and social media. That new line of thinking has happened so fast that we might not even know what the terms actually mean. Where does one end and another begin? As Trebor Scholz, assistant professor in the Department of [...]
Dec 02, 2009 | Categories:Advertising, Features, Marketing, PR, Social Media | Tags: blog, Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, social marketing. social networks, social Web, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube | Leave A Comment »






Cultivate Good Social Media Habits
This is the third in a series of 10 posts about different aspects of CEO branding. You might be sick of people talking about social media. That’s understandable. It can get tiresome when the hot topic of the month becomes the hot topic of the year and looks set to be the hot topic of [...]
Jul 18, 2012 | Categories:Brands, Features, PR, Social Media, Technology | Tags: Bill Gates, branding, CEO, CEO branding, CEOs, comments, controversy, employees, Facebook, Flickr, Forbes, humanity, Internet, investors, LinkedIn, Martha Stewart, Michael Dell, narrator, Pinterest, PR, Reddit, Richard Branson, share, Social Media, social platforms, Spotify, stakeholders, Technology, Tom Peters, Tumblr, Twitter, Vimeo, YouTube | Leave A Comment »