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January 30, 2010, 11:55 am
Originally posted on The Huffington Post. Every generation assumes it has been handed the world’s problems because the one that preceded it didn’t quite master the agenda. In the rebellious 1960s, the baby boomers demonstrated noisily against established powers and ideas. But in the case of today’s energetic and engaged 20-somethings—the Real-Time Generation—I think assuming responsibility … [continue reading... ]  Comments: Leave a comment January 29, 2010, 10:36 am
Originally posted on eurorscgpr.com. Much has been written about the study published in Science last month that ranked the happiest states in the U.S. Economists Andrew J. Oswald of the University of Warwick in England and Stephen Wu of Hamilton College in New York analyzed data from 1.3 million Americans in all 50 states and the … [continue reading... ] Comments: Leave a comment January 28, 2010, 11:07 am
Originally posted on The Huffington Post. A few years ago I was publicly fretting over the arrival of millennials—young people in the generation after X—in the workplace. I described how these new adults would bring with them a sense of entitlement, a need for constant praise, a habit of multitasking to the point of distraction and … [continue reading... ] Comments: Leave a comment January 27, 2010, 12:55 pm
Originally posted on eurorscgpr.com. “Multinational corporations have too much power.” It’s a meme that has been around since the Vietnam era, when bra-burning, festival-going hippies chanted about the evil deeds of “the corporations.” Today, however, it’s no radical fringe expressing the view, and it’s no simplistic view they’re expressing. In the newly released Global Youth Study, 64 … [continue reading... ] Comments: One comment January 25, 2010, 8:45 pm
Originally posted on eurorscgpr.com. If I had to pick a single symbol of American politics in 2010, it would be the Tea Party, the movement of vitriolic conservative protests that started on tax day last year. Inspired by the Boston Tea Party (“no taxation without representation”), it criticizes big government, the stimulus package, increases in the … [continue reading... ] Comments: One comment January 20, 2010, 11:03 am
Originally posted on eurorscgpr.com. A few weeks ago, The Independent published an interview with me under the headline “Local Will Be the New Global.” I told their reporter that I read several print newspapers on my morning commute, including my hometown paper, the Stamford Advocate. I read it partly for the restaurant reviews and advertising, things … [continue reading... ] Comments: Leave a comment January 18, 2010, 10:57 am
Originally posted on eurorscgpr.com. A little over a year ago, I was arguing that Illinois was the new trend capital. Trendspotters like me had looked at New York and L.A. to death, and the time had come to look at the Midwest. Illinois is, after all, the state that gave us Oprah and Obama. Its residents … [continue reading... ] Comments: Leave a comment January 3, 2010, 12:11 am
Originally posted on eurorscgpr.com. In my last post I shared The Futurist magazine’s top trend forecasts for 2010 and beyond. Admittedly, some of it seems a little out-there, from brain-to-brain telepathy to extraterrestrial life. But one person’s science fiction is another person’s getting to the future first. The Futurist has a compelling track record—its editors have been … [continue reading... ] Comments: Leave a comment January 2, 2010, 9:56 pm
Originally posted on eurorscgpr.com. We’ve just spent the past week counting the days, hours and minutes until we could finally put the last decade behind us, but many of us have been looking toward 2010 for months. This will be a year in which social media continues its reinvention of all facets of global society, and … [continue reading... ] Comments: Leave a comment |
This year, Marian’s annual trends report is the debut e-book of 120M Books, the publishing arm of Havas PR, where Marian is CEO. Click here to download a copy of What’s Next? What to Expect in 2013 and read about changes coming in categories ranging from Africa and education to alternative economies and your psyche. 
Marian has observed some clear patterns in our culture over her 20 years of trendspotting. One that she sees now is the new discipline of newscrafting. Read this paper to find out why and how she believes PR should be creating and shaping news for clients. |
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Bash, Bash and More Bash
Originally posted on eurorscgpr.com.
I’ve been watching the trend of mobmedia for some time now—it’s one of my top 10 trends for 2010—but it really hit home for me last week. I got a vicious, hateful (hate being the operative word) phone call, possibly from someone I know. I’ve done a number of TV appearances in … [continue reading... ]