Many American plates this week will be filled with hot dogs, potato chips and pickles, followed by apple pie à la mode. But many might actually look more like this: uncured turkey dogs in whole-wheat buns, sweet potato chips, locally canned pickles, gluten-free pie stuffed with unsprayed apples, and ice cream made from scratch with [...]
Jul 02, 2012 | Categories:Agency News, Health and Wellness, Trends | Tags: annual trends report, community, economy, farmers markets, food, GMO, health, local, Trends, U.S. | Leave A Comment »
Though plasma donation has practically become a business exchange stateside, the concept of blood for money (or, you know, plasma) doesn’t sit well with many in the U.K. However, with young people increasingly opting out of blood donation and the demand ballooning—especially as the U.K. preps for the Olympics and its 1.2 million expected tourists—Europeans [...]
Jun 20, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Social Media, Trends | Tags: America, blood, blood donation trends, blood donations, Chen Zhu, China, Chinese health, Facebook, Facebook organ donation status, health trends, healthcare trends, Olympics, organ donation trends, organ donations, organs, plasma, plasma donations, Social Media, U.K., U.S. | Leave A Comment »
It might be early August, but a part of me is already fixated on one month from today: 9/11. My head tells me it’s an important milestone, but my heart is telling me I must somehow rise to the occasion and make Sept. 11 this year something more. It’s hard not to think what a [...]
Aug 11, 2011 | Categories:B2B, Features, Insights, Social Media, Youth | Tags: 9/11, Aspen Ideas Festival, engaged, enraged, Facebook, global warming, high school, Paris, pessimism, Sept. 11, September 11, Shanksville, terrorism, TFWNF, the economy, The French Will Never Forget, Time, TV, Twin Towers, Twitter, U.S., United States, YouTube | Leave A Comment »
How do you conduct your client meetings? What if your client is located across town? What if your client is located across the country—or even across the globe? I’m a firm believer that, if possible, meetings should be done face to face (especially the important ones). But today’s technology makes it so easy to conference [...]
Jul 11, 2011 | Categories:Features, PR, Technology | Tags: clients, conference calls, Disney, face-to-face, International Association of Business Communicators, Japan, phone calls, Pixar, social Web, Technology, Tokyo, U.S., WALL-E, WebEx | Leave A Comment »
This is the sixth 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. We hear the word “reinventing” applied to systems all the time: reinventing capitalism, reinventing credit options. Reinventing health care, politics, journalism, food, [...]
Dec 06, 2010 | Categories:Features, Health and Wellness, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: airport security, Arizona State University, Barack Obama, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, capitalism, change, Cindy Sherman, credit, Daily Beast, entrepreneurs, Europe, Flint, Health and Wellness, innovators, Ireland, Jewish Museum, journalismf, Madonna, Marc Andreessen, Martin Luther King Jr., Maslow's pyramid, Match.com, Michigan, midlife, mobile photo sharing, mycasting, Netscape, online dating sites, ood, Oprah, optimism, Peace Corps, PicPlz, Politics, recession, recommitment, reflection, refocus, reinvention, resiliency, retirement, Roger Ebert, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Social Media, SoMe, Spain, tech, TED, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, U.S., we can, Yes | 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 »
