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Award-winning blogger, brand marketer, public relations executive and social media innovator
As featured on CNN, "60 Minutes" and "Good Morning America," and in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Telegraph (U.K.), The Times (London) and more
Read Marian's award-winning four-part series from the Huffington Post about the brain (including creativity, collaboration, the information onslaught and the new definition of braininess) here. |
June 21, 2012, 9:00 am
Originally posted on Euro RSCG’s Social Life and Social Media blog. If you happen to be home on any given weekday afternoon, you’ve no doubt noticed that there are a whole lot of dads pushing strollers these days while their wives are taking care of business at the office. We all saw the controversy that Time … [continue reading... ]  Comments: Leave a comment May 16, 2012, 1:38 pm
With anything and everything trending on Twitter and with Internet memes sweeping the Web waves faster than we can follow, I can’t help but wonder: Is the business of trendspotting overtrended? In an age of armchair newscasters, writers and videographers, it’s becoming harder to distill the stuff that will go from small blip to seismic shift … [continue reading... ] Comments: Leave a comment July 14, 2011, 9:43 pm
Originally posted on the Huffington Post. I recently spotted a stat on Ad Age about how today’s millennials (68 percent of them) ask friends for their opinion before they try a restaurant. I’ve done a lot of research on the Y set and know they are very codependent (why do anything solo except perhaps an … [continue reading... ] Comments: Leave a comment May 31, 2011, 1:25 am
Originally posted on eurorscgpr.com. In a world gone blurry (work/life, life/work and back again), what’s a PR or marketing professional to do in terms of messaging? Maybe you’ve noticed, as I have, the fantastic confusion pertaining to transparency these days, in an age of SarbOx gone mad. Take my household’s morning routine: We’re big banana eaters, … [continue reading... ] Comments: Leave a comment December 2, 2010, 5:00 pm
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 … [continue reading... ] Comments: One comment July 22, 2010, 12:20 am
Originally posted on the Huffington Post. I’ve been posting here about my adventures with a brain tumor in 2007, the ways it has changed me and the importance of brain health for all of us. Talking about brain health is part of what comes with 50 being the new 30: We’re all desperate to be young … [continue reading... ] Comments: Leave a comment February 11, 2010, 12:53 pm
Originally posted on The Huffington Post. The inaugural One Young World summit that concluded on Wednesday in London wasn’t just a gathering of hundreds of tomorrow’s world leaders. Don’t get me wrong: The energy of the more than 600 delegates from 100-plus countries, the passion of their debates and the progress that their resolutions made toward … [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 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 December 19, 2009, 10:31 pm
 Originally posted on eurorscgpr.com. It’s that time of year again. We’re all supposed to be nothing but joyful, yet magazines, newspapers and blogs are all offering their annual “survival tactics” for coping with holiday angst. This supposedly most wonderful time of the year has somehow become something that must be endured. There’s a great disconnect between … [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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