Trend Letter / Briefings
Trend Letter: May 2007 [Briefings Publications]
Managing Editor: Hope Katz Gibbs
Volume 26, Number 5
Trend Letter
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IN THIS ISSUE
Telecom Outlook …. 3
Living Wills … 6
Intern Conversion … 7
Overseas Retirement: A special report by futurist Tom Conger … 8
Cybersafety Shift … 11
Mass Customization … 12
Thinking about the Future: Spotlight Interview with Andy Hines … 14 [Read by Viewing Entire Article}
Plus, Trendspotters and Audio Report Summaries
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Trend Letter: April 2007 [Briefings Publications]
Managing Editor: Hope Katz Gibbs
Volume 26, Number 4
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IN THIS ISSUE
Generic Rx Price Wars …. 3
Death in the Workplace … 6
Classroom Tech … 7
Women as Breadwinners: A special report by futurist Tom Conger … 8
Business Blogs … 10
Pure-Water Cafes … 11
Robot Workers …12
Right-Brain Domination: Spotlight Interview with Dan Pink … 14
Plus, Trendspotters and Audio Report Summaries
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Trend Letter: March 2007 [Briefings Publications]
Managing Editor: Hope Katz Gibbs
Volume 26, Number 2
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IN THIS ISSUE
Vertical Searches …. 3
Bustling Downtowns … 6
Green Buildings … 7
Digital Creatives: A special report by futurist Tom Conger … 8
Katrina Cottages … 10
Happy Workaholics … 11
New Pharmaceutical Rx …12
X-Engineering Success: Spotlight Interview with James Champy … 14 [Read by Viewing Entire Article]
Plus, Trendspotters and Audio Report Summaries
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Trend Letter: February 2007 [Briefings Publications]
Managing Editor: Hope Katz Gibbs
Volume 26, Number 2
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IN THIS ISSUE
Growing role of multilingualism …. 3
Financial supply chain revamped … 6
Dems won’t harm business … 7
Power of participatory media: A special report by futurist Tom Conger … 8
Everything old is not new again … 11
Indispensable cell phones … 12
Nanotech revolution is here …14
Plus, Trendspotters and Audio Report Summaries
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Trend Letter: January 2007 [Briefings Publications]
Managing Editor: Hope Katz Gibbs
Volume 26, Number 1
Trend Letter
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IN THIS ISSUE
The aerotropolis: Coming to a city near you … 3
Slow going for entry-level workers … 4
The power of crowdsourcing … 6
Product rating services put customers to work … 7
Combating cognitive overload … 8
Employees use vacation time to test new careers … 10
Next real estate boom: South of the border … 11
Small, independent candymakers make a comeback … 11
Paradigm shift: Jobs will follow workers by 2020 … 12
Here comes the rain … again … 13
Internet security hardware grows in popularity … 13
*Spotlight Interview: Is the global corporation doomed? ... 14
Trendspotters … 5 [Read by Viewing Entire Article]*
Audio Report Summaries … 16
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Social Technologies ) Trend Letter / Special Report
Special Report by Social Technologies
Contributing authors: Futurists Josh Calder, Chris Carbone, Laura Hudgins
Managing Editor: Hope Katz Gibbs
Outlook 2007
For this Special Report, I was the managing editor of Trend Letter, a newsletter by Briefings Publications. I commissioned Social Technologies founder Tom Conger and a team of his futurists (Josh Calder, Chris Carbone, Laura Hudgins) to provide information for this Outlook issue. They came up with the Top 15 Drivers for the Economy (see list below), and continued to flesh out the drivers’ applications in subsequent monthly columns by Tom—who continues to provide monthly columns for Trend Letter.
Aging / Family / Asia / Immigration / Culture / Time / Monetization / Ethics / Transparency / Personalization / Networking / Health / Creativity / Women / Simplicity
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