Calling all gossip girls—and boys! While it’s true that both genders gossip, a recent study found that we gab about very different things—women about physical appearance and social information, and men about achievement-related topics. Most notably, the study revealed that the effects of gossip on female friendships and male friendships are very different; gossip helped [...]
Jul 30, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Marketing, Technology, Trends | Tags: female friendship, friendship, friendship trends, gender differences, gossip, gossip trends, male friendship, psychology, small talk, social media trends, social mores, sociology, texting | Leave A Comment »
Sharing is no longer just a playground tactic. CEOs are being advised to share information and power and to play well with fellow executives and employees, even competitors, to better exchange diverse ideas and experiences. With our hypercompetitive marketplace, shaky economy and the networking experience most of us have picked up from time spent online, [...]
Jul 13, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Technology, Trends | Tags: 21st century, C-suite leadership, CEO leadership, collaborative leadership, crowdsourcing, Facebook, human resources trends, leadership, leadership trends, Mark Zuckerberg, organizational development, sociology, Technology | Leave A Comment »
Might millennials be the most perplexing—and intriguing—demographic group ever? Made up of 18- to 34-year-olds, they’re bound by few commonalities; one being a fondness for social media and another, an overarching fear of commitment. This commitment issue is big news these days, as scorned bosses, lovers and advertisers everywhere ponder what went wrong. Some of [...]
Jan 30, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Social Media, Trends, Youth | Tags: Australia, automobiles, baby boomers, children, divorce, Gen Y, Generation X, Generation Y, generational trends, hiring, homeownership, HR, job trends, marriage, millennial, parenthood, professional trends, psychology, sociology, young adults | Leave A Comment »
Ever experienced a peculiar surge of elation when you watch the “likes” pile up on one of your Facebook statuses? This particular joy—triggered by, say, a small video-game victory, clever tweet or kind text message—is probably derived from the neurotransmitter dopamine, which sets our brains’ pleasure circuits ablaze. More scientists today are comparing this biological [...]
Jan 24, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM, email, Facebook, Internet, Internet addiction, Internet Compulsion Disorder, pathological Internet misuse, psychology, smartphone, Social Media, social media trends, sociology, Technology, Twitter | Leave A Comment »
Earlier this week, I went back to school and back to a CBI—the ultimate distinction at Euro RSCG Worldwide and ERWW PR. That’s our shorthand for Creative Business Ideas, those big leaps that rewrite a brand’s potential and give it new probabilities. Back in the early days of aspiring to CBIs, we defined them as [...]
Oct 08, 2010 | Categories:Features, Insights | Tags: Africana studies, Brown University, Creative Business Ideas, Edwidge Danticat, Euro RSCG Worldwide, Financial Mail, Haiti, Haitian Initiative, Ivy League, Johannesburg, market research, Nelson Mandela, sociology, Stamford, virtual, Wyclef Jean | Leave A Comment »
