Nixty launched an online educational service. The service provides software that allows teachers to aggregate material of their courses in a user-friendly interface. The service is free to teachers of public courses and under $10 for private courses.
By CherryPlanet.com As people are becoming more concerned about poverty and suffering around the world, Corporate Social Responsibility has become somewhat compulsory for many large corporations. According to the Giving Institute (www.givinginstitute.org), Walmart, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Exxon, AT&T, and many others are known for donating millions of dollars to charities each year. Yet, they […]
Hello Brainstormers, These notes are taken off my slides from the Trends Luncheon. In 2010 we have the Local Trend . It’s global and flat and connected out there. But. Except for a tiny minority of jet-setting, rootless, global nomads, most people spend their day-to-day life in the same place, with the same friends, peers, […]
Augmented reality is a term used to describe a live direct or indirect view of the physical real-world environment whose elements are merged with a virtual computer generated image – creating a mixed reality. More ‘real world’ developments (with a virtual twist):Expect to hear about Augmented Reality Reviews… We can all follow UDR’s experiments in […]
Perks is a sub trend of the Generosity trend . Perks are cool to receive, but not cool to have taken away. Prepare to be in it for the long run, or clearly communicate the temporary nature of the privileges you’re introducing. You will have to be creative, and you will need to reach out […]
Instant gratification has been a big part of consumerism for decades, it’s the online world that for better or worse represents Instantaneous on steroids. In fact, if there’s one defining theme for the online world in 2010, it’s ‘real-time’. It seems everyone lives in “On” and wants an on-demand world. They know no other. Want […]
Save the Date: Brainstorming Sessions September 15-17, Dallas Tx. Thoughts straight from my Trends Luncheon slides. People’s online behavior is changing enormously. We are becoming increasingly used to real-time interaction thanks to the social internet. Quoting Robin Grant of WE ARE SOCIAL “In the places that people choose to spend their online lives, constant interaction […]
Understanding the growing importance of generosity as a leading societal and business mindset is going to be very important in 2010. Many in the corporate world are so far removed from today’s better informed, more opinionated consumer that their (non-) communications, inter-actions, and overall behavior is deeply out of touch with what consumers really want […]
For 2009, when it came to online, we thought of 100%. As in: 100% accepted, 100% integrated, 100% lusted after. From mature consumer societies to fast-growing ones, everyone was online, or will soon be. Every young consumer definitely is. And no one is logging off. The impact? No excuse not to go ‘all out” when […]
The trends that are here and now and will move forward in 2010 have already changed the way consumers view and want to interact with us. There isn’t anything that you I will review from Houston that can’t implement today with success and in fact many of us are already moving in the right direction! […]
Trend Sources: Contagious, Razorfish, TrendsSpotting, Trends Research Institute, The Future Laboratory, Spring Wise, Monocle, Trendwatching, Tom Peters, Wikipedia, The Mature Market, Focalyst, Varsity Marketing. Recapping my opening statement from Wednesday morning: Webster’s dictionary defines Consumerism as “The theory that a progressively greater consumption of goods is economically beneficial.”There are four segments of Consumerism. You will […]