Dating coaches are a growing industry. It’s a high-tech, high-touch phenomenon spurred by the explosion of online dating. Amy Alkon began her love-advice giving on a street corner in Manhattan. It was an experiment. She set up a table, made a sign, and waited to see what would happen. Remarkably, people...
Author Archives: Patricia Martin
Cool Campaign: Nature Speaks Up
Nature is coming in loud and clear thanks to Conservation International’s new campaign: Nature Is Speaking. The thrust of the message is that nature is not dependent on humanity; we are dependent on it. A gang of A-list celebrities including: Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts, Penelope Cruz, and Kevin Spacey, have chimed in...
The Ugly Truth About Meetings
No matter where you work, chances are that you spend a lot of time in meetings. But are meetings a good use of time? Do they help us accomplish things, or distract us from getting real work done? We found this clever infographic from Fuze called, The Ugly Truth About...
Pocket Zones: How to Build Livable Megacities
The key to smarter cities will not be technology, but the existence of dense walkable zones made for easy living. The MIT Tech Review speculates that in the coming decades, much of the population growth will happen in cities. By 2050, some 75 percent of the world’s population is...
Cowbird: Making the Web Better for Humans
Three years ago, on the eve of unveiling his storytelling and photo-sharing platform, Jonathan Harris called his investors and gave back their $500K investment. Rather than caving into pressure to maximize profitability at the expense of the user experience, Harris stuck to his vision for Cowbird….full story at Huffington Post.
Smart Social Brands Keep it Real with Instagram
The best people I know are real. Never phony. Oh, they may strut and turn up the volume at times. But mainly, they’re reliably natural in the way they communicate. You can believe in them. In the same way, better brands know that keeping it real earns trust when it comes...
The Future of Voting–Millennials and Politics
Who will lead next? My team compiled this handy infographic that points the way. It’s the hand out for a non-partisan policy retreat I’ll be speaking at next month. Hard to see? Go here and download the PDF.
Trending: Millennials Still A Moving Target
The behaviors and preferences of Millennials fascinate us because they are the future. Lately, we’re paying close attention to what they adopt and shed to see more enduring trends to separate fad from frontier.Millennials appear to shed a channel or platform that becomes too intrusive, too commercial or just too...