[Originally posted on the Huffington Post.] This is the third 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, will be published on 12/12/12 and available at 120MBooks.com. Salzman [...]
Dec 07, 2012 | Categories:Features, Technology, Trends, Youth | Tags: austerity, Collaborative Consumption, college, consumer confidence, debt, double dip, education, Europe, food stamps, frugal consumption, Greece, millennials, poverty, sharing economy, Spain, Technology, the economy, the Huffington Post, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, unemployment, virtual, What's Next? | Leave A Comment »
[Originally posted on the Huffington Post.] Now that the recession has retreated just a bit from American shores, we’re being allowed a better look at its aftermath. To be frank, it’s not pretty, especially for millennials and their parents. Many of the latter co-signed on student loans and must cope with the loss of a [...]
Mar 23, 2012 | Categories:Features, Insights, Youth | Tags: American Dream, American optimism, AmeriCorps, college, education, helicopter parents, millennials, millennials unemployment, mortgage crisis, prime crisis, recession, STEM, STEM degrees, student loan debt, student loans, unemployment, value of education | Leave A Comment »
Those on the unemployment line who possess mad skills in social media or software and mobile development probably won’t be jobless for too much longer. In the U.S., the Labor Department says the IT job market has fully recovered from the recession, an indication of which can be seen in the top new job posting [...]
Dec 16, 2011 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: Android, Australia, careers, employment, HTML5, human resources, iOS, jobs, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, keywords, mobile app, MongoDB, Social Media, STEM fields, Technology, unemployment | Leave A Comment »
Mo’ Money, Mo’ Relationship Problems Why a full bank account may bankrupt a happy marriage, and other threats to the once-sacred institution Attention, single ladies: There appears to be a serious shortage of marriage-worthy men. A number of factors are at play, including women’s growing nonchalance about traditional marriage. Cold hard cash is a likely [...]
Oct 19, 2011 | Categories:Brainsnacks | Tags: careers, cultural trends, divorce, economy, gender relations, gratitude, jobs, marriage, married couples, men, money, relationships, socio-economic conditions, tradition, unemployment, women | Leave A Comment »
A Major Upheaval U.S. college students are encouraged to major in STEM fields to fill empty positions and rev the economy When it comes to the American job market, or lack thereof, there are some troubling incongruities. For instance: Why, with 14 million people pounding the pavement looking for work, do 52 percent of U.S. [...]
Oct 17, 2011 | Categories:Brainsnacks | Tags: college, cultural trends, economy, education, job market, jobs, majors, millennials, STEM degrees, students, Technology, unemployment, university, workers | Leave A Comment »
Originally posted on the Huffington Post. In my travels around the world, I’ve (over)heard a lot of ways for people to say they’ve reached a point of no return with their frustration, feeling so full of stress that they’re stirred from passive acceptance to action. Some cultures say it’s “the drop that makes the jar [...]
Sep 13, 2011 | Categories:Features, Insights, Politics, Social Media, Youth | Tags: #WakeUpCall, American Dream, anger, Arab Spring, Bob Geldof, brand, capitalism, change, consumer behavior, Crown Prince Haakon, Desmond Tutu, economy, Financial Times, frustration, global business, Howard Schultz, interfaith dialogue, Jamie Oliver, Joseph Stiglitz, leadership, Libya, Main Street, middle class, Middle East, Moammar Gadhafi, Mohamed El-Erian, One Young World, protest, riot, social justice, stress, trendspotter, trendspotting, unemployment, Vanity Fair, Wall Street, Warren Buffett, YouGovStone, Youth | Leave A Comment »
As the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11 approaches, we remember those who died, we try to give voice to the collective emotions we felt then and still carry today, and we consider how the decade since the attacks has shaped us. But it is especially enlightening to realize what it all means to today’s 20-somethings, [...]
Jul 22, 2011 | Categories:Features, Youth | Tags: 20-somethings, 9/11, 9/11 anniversary, Afghanistan, Call of Duty, CNN, college, economy, entrepreneurs, fallen soldiers, Fast Company, gaming, Generation Y, Ground Zero, Iraq, joblessness, Middle East, military, millennials, Navy SEALs, Osama bin Laden, Sept. 11, student loans, terror attacks, the economy, The Wall Street Journal, unemployment, video games, Youth | Leave A Comment »
This is the first in a series of five. See Euro RSCG Worldwide PR’s latest white paper, “Male in U.S.A.,” for more analysis about the state of men in America today. What is going on with men in the workplace? We’re already seeing one of the biggest shifts in the gender pendulum in recent times, [...]
Jan 25, 2011 | Categories:Features, Insights, Technology, Trends | Tags: American-made, Anthony Bourdain, Best Made Company, Biz Stone, building, Dennis Crowley, economy, entrepreneurship, Esquire, Etsy, Euro RSCG Worldwide PR, food trucks, Forbes, gender, gender roles, handmade, Jack Space, jobs, Larry Page, Maine, male bonding, Male in U.S.A., Male in USA, mancession, Mark Zuckerberg, men, men in America, mentrepreneur, New York, New York City, recession, reinvention, Sergey Brin, Sex and the City, Silicon Valley, startups, The Atlantic, Tony Bourdain, Trends, unemployment | Leave A Comment »
