Is Thought Leadership The Future of Marketing?

In our last interview, Steve McKee asked if Big Data was the future of marketing. In previous interviews, Doug Kessler talked about creating a  content culture , Todd Wheatland predicted that  content and technology  would combine to drive the future of marketing. Mark Schaefer discussed culture and  the future of search . Marcus Starke predicted the rise of the  science of marketing . Ann Handley called for more brands to become  Content Brands . And [...]

Your Office Is In Your Pants, Part III : How The Smart Phone Is Changing The Way We Live And Work

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People tend to think that the future is going to be pretty much like the present, but with antennae. In fact, technology has changed the way we work and the jobs that we do, and I think we are about to go through the biggest change in years. Two years ago I wrote about how [...]

Mindfulness as a Path to Personal Sustainability

Everything you do actively creates your experience, in the past, now and in the future. Practicing mindfulness in your everyday living and adopting a mindset of sustainability allows you to live in harmony with yourself and the world around you.   In relation to sustainability, it involves developing a consciousness of cause and effect. In [...]

A Doctor in Your Pocket

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards What will the future of medicine bring? Tiny body monitors, large patient databases and the end of illness, says David B. Agus.   Take a moment to imagine what it would be like to live robustly to the ripe old age of 100 or more. You wouldn’t die of any particular [...]

These 12 Startling Statistics Show What Our World Could Look Like In 2030

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Not a pretty picture…. As the world continues to change, the only predictor of the future is where we’ve been.With that in mind, we have taken trends from 2000-2010 and extended them out to get a feel for what the planet could be like if the following two decades are like [...]

The Future of Information is About Curating It: Media Futurist Gerd Leonhard at Google Australia

Via Scoop.it – Real-Time News Curation The future of information is about curation says media futurist Gerd Leonhard in the introductory part of his Conusmer of Tomorrow presentation.More than consuming and gathering information, we now need also someone that makes sense of it. Show original

The Future of News is Curated and Branded

Via Scoop.it – Content Curation, Social Media and Beyond Business Insider talked to a group of media “mavens” about the future of news.   I think the selection of who is an “expert” today is interesting of itself, and a related story about the top ten brands to be big in the future gives even [...]

Futurist Conversation & how it can be Applied to Content Curation

Via Scoop.it – Content Curation, Social Media and Beyond ‘This is a great discussion by two of my favorite people, Ross Dawson and Gerd Leonhard. They’re talking about how they help their clients understand trends in the future so they can make better decisions today. Listening to this talk, made me look at the role [...]