[Originally posted on the Huffington Post.] This is the sixth 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 18, 2012 | Categories:Features, Trends | Tags: dads, families, family, Fast Company, gender discrimination, Havas Worldwide, men, moms, parents, stay at home, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, What's Next?, women | Leave A Comment »
Time’s controversial breastfeeding cover gave further ammunition to the ongoing mom wars, but did you know there are dad wars, too? It’s true; 16 percent of American preschoolers are cared for by stay-at-home dads, and many of these dads complain that they’re plagued by assumptions that they’re not cut out for the job or that [...]
Aug 22, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Marketing, Social Media, Trends, Youth | Tags: American dads, Australian dads, breastfeeding, dad, dad wars, fatherhood, fathers, Filipino men, mom wars, moms, mothers, parenting trends, parents, Time breastfeeding | Leave A Comment »
[Originally posted on Euro RSCG’s Social Life and Social Media blog.] This week, Facebook confirmed that it is developing parental control technology that will allow children under the age of 13 to use the site. My first question: What took it so long? Currently, those aged 13 and under are supposedly prohibited from creating a [...]
Jun 11, 2012 | Categories:Advertising, Features, Social Media, Technology, Youth | Tags: bullying, children, Consumer Reports, cyberbullying, Facebook, Federal Trade Commission, Jon Leibowitz, parental control technology, parents, social network, tweens, Wall Street | Leave A Comment »
A mother might get away with forgetting the juice box a time or two, but shudder to think she’d neglect to tuck a note inside her child’s lunchbox before sending him off on the school bus one morning. Otherwise, it’s possible that her kid could be the only one without a syrupy sweet note to [...]
Dec 07, 2011 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Social Media, Trends, Youth | Tags: bento box, cafeteria lunch, child lunch, children self-esteem, cultural trends, lunchbox, mommy bloggers, nutrition, parents, public schools | Leave A Comment »
Far be it from me to condone the nutritional value of the food at McDonald’s (although they have been trying a little harder lately), but when it comes to Ronald? Hands off! In one of the more potentially forgettable yet memorable points in my early public relations career, I spent several days chauffeuring a Ronald [...]
May 18, 2011 | Categories:B2B, Features, Health and Wellness, PR | Tags: children, health, McDonald's, nutrition, parents, public relations, Ronald McDonald | 1 Comment »
We approach next year having lived through the worst economic meltdown since the crash of the 1930s and are now navigating the waves that this has sent through every aspect of life—social, political, ecological. One phenomenon will weave through all of them: social media. It will be the greatest driver of all trends worldwide next [...]
Dec 11, 2009 | Categories:Features, Insights, Politics, Social Media, Trends | Tags: 2010 trends, Balloon Boy, bonuses, brain health, brain injuries, celebrity, Cold War, community, David Letterman, DIY, economy, fundraising, higher education, hyperlocalization, hyperpolarization, insourcing, Iran, J. Crew, Jon and Kate, Media, mobmedia, North Korea, Obama, Octomom, Pakistan, parents, peace, post-traumatic stress disorder, religion, sexual misconduct, Social Media, soldiers, terrorist, the bomb, traumatic brain injuries, tuition, world economy | Leave A Comment »
