Kate Middleton and the Branding of a Duchess

[Originally posted on Forbes.com.] In what was undoubtedly old news to anyone who has been paying attention to the British royal family, St. James’s Palace issued an official statement last week to announce that “Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are delighted to confirm they are expecting a baby in July.” (Hello, [...]
Jan 29, 2013 | Categories:Brands, Features, Social Media | Tags: baby, brand, branding, British monarchy, British royal family, Cambridge, Carole Middleton, child, Cirque du Soleil, Daily Mail, duchess, E!, family, hair, Kate Middleton, Kim Kardashian, merchandise, Michael Middleton, MILF, Morrissey, personal brand, pregnant, Prince Harry, Prince William, Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth, royal, St. James's Palace, Today, Twitter, URL, Us Weekly, Windsor Castle, Yummy Mummy | Leave A Comment »
Trendspotting: #HashtagHoopla
Researchers are now looking to Twitter, 175 million users strong, to predict global mood, inform scientific research, make investment predictions, even spawn mighty protests—the Occupy movement can be traced back to a single tweet on July 13 urging people to #OccupyWallStreet. Thank not just Twitter but also the all-mighty hashtag for that one. The hashtag, [...]
Jan 04, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Social Media, Trends | Tags: #HurricaneBawbag, 2012 campaign, Babble, Barack Obama, daddy bloggers, hashtag, House of Commons, Kim Kardashian, Nancy Pelosi, Occupy Wall Street, Politics, Reince Priebus, Russian protesters, Social Media, Twitter | Leave A Comment »
The Future Faces of Hate

[Originally posted on the Huffington Post.] Since 9/11 (and long before, actually), the world and our nation have been obsessed with a collective hatred of individuals who threaten our ways of life and promote hatred of it. But now that bin Laden, Hussein and Gadhafi are dead, who will be the object of our obscenity-laced [...]
Nov 07, 2011 | Categories:Features, Insights, Media, Politics | Tags: 9/11, anger, China, gay marriage, hate, Iran, Kim Kardashian, like, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Moammar Gadhafi, Occupy Wall Street, Osama bin Laden, Politics, Raul Castro, reality TV, Saddam Hussein, Tea Party, terrorist, Wall Street | Leave A Comment »
Public Mycasting System

This is the fourth 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. Just ask Oprah: There is nothing stranger than human existence in all its infinite and frail variety. If it’s true, as they [...]
Dec 02, 2010 | Categories:Features, Media, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: 127 Hours, Andrew Sullivan, Augusten Burroughs, bloggers, blogs, channels, Chicago, connecting, desktop, Elizabeth Gilbert, Facebook, fanzines, Father Ray Blake, food diaries, gatekeepers, Global Voices, Hard Times, interactivity, Ivanka Trump, John Gilbert, Jott, Khloe Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, laptop, Little Women, mens' blogs, mommy blogs, mycasting, NaNoWriMo, Nouriel Roubini, novels, Pulitzer Prize, retweet, self-expression, sincerity, Social Media, SoMe, storytelling, Studs Terkel, Swiss Army, Technorati, The Apprentice, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Tolstoy, Trends, trendspotting, Tumblr, tweet, Twitter, War and Peace, William Styron, WordPress | 3 Comments »






