Now that all the college kids in my neighborhood are back at school after the year-end holidays and January terms, I’ve been thinking about parent-child connectivity. (My children are still small, but in our always-on world, I know I’ll have to address this sooner than I might think.) I heard a story not too long [...]
Feb 13, 2013 | Categories:Features, Insights, Social Media, Technology, Youth | Tags: cellphone, child, children, college, connection, connectivity, day care, email, Facebook, George Washington University, helicopter parent, involvement, National Survey of Student Engagement, NPR, parent, parenting, phone, preschool, smartphone, student, text, tweet, Twitter | 1 Comment »
Today, 1,200 delegates are making their way home to all points on the map from Pittsburgh, which our office there successfully pitched as the 2012 venue for this premier global young leadership conference. From the keynote address by Bill Clinton to the closing ceremonies featuring former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, from dinners with 200 families [...]
Oct 22, 2012 | Categories:Agency News, PR, Social Media, Youth | Tags: Bill Clinton, Kofi Annan, One Young World, Pittsburgh, presidential debate, tweet, young leaders | Leave A Comment »
As a communications professional, I value the importance of fully communicating to one’s public through various media during any type of crisis. We had a big weather crisis this week in the New York City tristate area with the arrival of Hurricane Irene, and for many Long Island residents it grew into a communications crisis, [...]
Sep 02, 2011 | Categories:Features, PR, Social Media | Tags: communications, crisis, Facebook, Hurricane Irene, Long Island, Newsday, power outage, PR, public relations, tweet, Twitter | Leave A Comment »
3. Samantha Jones is completely unrealistic. Other than the obvious reasons that this is true, Samantha (the PR executive on “Sex and the City” played by Kim Cattrall, for those of you out there who didn’t follow the show), from a public relations perspective, could not have done all her work alone. No one at [...]
Aug 15, 2011 | Categories:Features, Insights, PR, Social Media | Tags: Brown University, Candace Bushnell, diabetes, Euro RSCG Worldwide PR, Facebook, Google, intern, internship, Kim Cattrall, Marian Salzman, pharmaceuticals, PR, public relations, Samantha Jones, Sanofi, Sex and the City, Social Media, tweet, tweets, Twitter | Leave A Comment »
This is the 12th 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. As I wrap up my series of predictions for the very near future, I want to go a bit more personal. I’m [...]
Dec 15, 2010 | Categories:Features, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: alone time, alpha male, BlackBerry, brain, braininess, cancer, cell phone, clean water, clothing swap, concussions, Connecticut, craniotomy, credit, cyberbullying, debt, dopamine, e-mail, female, forecasts, home office, Indo-Chinese spices, juggling, listening, Madoff, male, Mark Zuckerberg, mobmedia, NFL, real estate, reunion, soldiers, Stamford, TBIs, Technology, Time, transparency, traumatic brain injuries, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, tumor, tweet, Tyler Clementi, water, WikiLeaks | Leave A Comment »
You’d have to live under a rock to not have been swept up by, or at least heard of, the latest culinary craze: food trucks. California has always had its taco trucks, but now you can find gourmet crepes, sophisticated meatball sandwiches and even schnitzel on a corner or curb near you. L.A., Austin and [...]
Dec 03, 2010 | Categories:Advertising, Features, Social Media, Trends | Tags: Advertising, Austin, Brands, California, consumers, Facebook, followers, food fests, food trucks, gourmet food trucks, Heavenly, Heinz, Lake Tahoe, Los Angeles, mobile billboard, New York, Social Media, The New York Times, tweet, Twitter, Zagat | Leave A Comment »
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 »
This is the first 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. Despite the relatively peaceable environment abroad—there’s a successful coalition, for now, in the U.K., and Australians still appear confident despite debt problems—the [...]
Nov 29, 2010 | Categories:Advertising, Features, Politics, Social Media, Trends | Tags: Alaska, anger, Aqua Buddha, AT&T, Australia, banks, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Boardwalk Empire, Brands, Buddhist, Chris Matthews, consumers, cyberstalking, Dalai Lama, defense, Denny's, digital media, domestic violence, eavesdropping, Election Day, elections, emotion, FP7 Doha, freedoms, Gap, government, iPhone, Jack Conway, John Yarmuth, Keith Olbermann, Kentucky, millennials, MSNBC, Nancy Pelosi, network, nostalgia, Politics, poor, privacy, Prohibition, Rand Paul, Saddam Hussein, Samsung, school, Seth Godin, Sigmund Freud, Social Media, SoMe, taxes, Tea Party, Trends, tweet, Twitter, U.K., U.S. | 11 Comments »
In our industry, new buzzwords pop up constantly, and lately it has been “authentic.” Last month, I attended AdweekMedia’s Social Media Strategies conference in New York and its What Teens Want conference in L.A. In normal conference manner, professionals described how they have managed to garner enviable results within their unique market. The lesson learned [...]
Nov 10, 2010 | Categories:Features, Social Media | Tags: AdWeekMedia, authentic, authenticity, brand, brand voice, conversation, Facebook, fan pages, Grayson Chance, H&R BlockThreadless, Honor Society, Lady Gaga, Los Angeles, MySpace, New York, online brand presence, PepsiCo, Pete Wentz, Social Media, Social Media Strategies, The New York Times, transparency, tweet, Twitter, viral content, What Teens Want | Leave A Comment »
After bar crawling with a few Euro RSCG Worldwide PR colleagues during Fashion’s Night Out, it was hard not to compare today’s fashion industry with the way it used to be. Even though I’m fairly young and a novice in this industry, changes are noticeable. It was about six years ago when I first learned [...]
Sep 13, 2010 | Categories:Features, PR, Social Media | Tags: Atlanta, Elite Model Management, Euro RSCG Worldwide PR, exclusivity, Factor Women, Fashion, Fashion Week, Fashion's Night Out, Forbes.com, Foursquare, Gap, Gucci, H&M, Hermes, luxury, Mashable, Media Caffeine, Mercedes-Benz, PR, prestige, Shenae Grimes, Social Media, Teen Vogue, tweet, Twitterville | Leave A Comment »
