By Carol Phillips* Financial services are waking up to the potential of Gen Y consumers. Millennials may not have a lot of money now, but they are determined to pay down their debt and conserve resources for the future. Coming of age in an era of massive financial uncertainty, they may even come to be [...]
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Posted in Web on jun 14th, 2010
By Sarah Newton OK, I can hold my containment no longer and I have to shout from the rooftops. I am so excited about the coalition agreement made in UK politics between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, mostly because I am so excited to have Nick Clegg in a senior position. While I did [...]
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Posted in Generation, Generation Y, Web on mar 1st, 2010
*By Carol Phillips I recently finished reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s best selling book, Eat Pray Love. The book chronicles Gilbert’s literal and figurative spiritual journey toward a deeper relationship with God, but never actually reveals which if any religion speaks to her yearning. Gilbert, a Gen X’er, seems to have a lot in common with Gen [...]
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Posted in Generation, Generation Y, Web on fev 10th, 2010
By Carol Phillips* The premise of generational marketing is that each generation assumes a characteristic set of values and behaviors. While it’s not everything you need to know to market effectively, it provides a cultural foundation and helps avoid the ego-centric mistake of thinking other generations are just like you, only younger or older. While [...]
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By Renato Andrade Another edition of the “Results ON Day” took place in São Paulo, this time on the theme of social media. Besides for the latest tendencies, research, and case studies about social networks (Twitter, Orkut, Facebook, blogs, etc), Gen Y’s behavior and life online was a topic of frequent discussion. Here, I’ve made [...]
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Posted in Artikullocks, Generation, Web on out 27th, 2009
By Manuela Mesquita Parents are not teaching their children to be citizens with an attitude. This is the opinion of Dr. Içami Tiba, psychiatrist for whom, “There isn’t an ideal model for raising children.” The author of 27 publications, the majority focusing on young people, Tiba believes that parents are responsible for the unstable and [...]
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By Mauro Segura I asked a group of teenagers to estimate how many friends they talk to everyday via the Internet, cell phone, or texting. Most of them replied “several dozens.” Text messaging, Facebook messages, blog comments, tweets etc…Everything from a simple “hello” to a long conversation counts as talking. Their responses confirm what most [...]
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Posted in Artikullocks, Social Network, Web on out 21st, 2009
By Tatiana Kielberman In the last weeks a phenomenon has swept over social networks in Brazil. Nothing unexpected, especially because as social-network-addicts know, it’s impossible to predict what crazily cool thing they’ll come up with next. Allowing Orkut contacts (currently the most popular social network in Brazil) to be transferred to Facebook, is a monumental [...]
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An Interview with UT Dallas Prof Monica Rankin, creator of “The Twitter Experiment.” By Ines Schinazi Perhaps what makes Generation Y’s educational experience most different from the experience of past generations is the overwhelming presence of technology in the classroom, and all the implications this brings. While cell phones and laptops are often considered to [...]
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By Ines Schinaz I spoke with Penelope Trunk, the founder and CEO of Brazen Careerist.com Ines: You talk about how your own career never had a straight path. How did you get the idea for your blog? Was there a particular experience that made you decide to create it? Penelope: I was a columnist at [...]
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