Futurist Thomas Frey: By 2025, over 75% of the workforce will be comprised of Millennials, a group many refer to as the Facebook generation. That’s just over 11 years away.
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Social scoring isn’t the future of influencer marketing – far from it, according to this recent study sponsored by ArCompany and Sensei Marketing.
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Shane Snow and his cofounders started Contently in 2010 because they saw the world of journalism shifting. Where newspapers and magazines once provided stable, salaried jobs for reporters, writers and editors, they now largely shun fixed costs for an employment model that relies on an increasing percentage of freelancers.
Continue reading… “6 reasons why half of us may soon be freelancers”
Sixty-one percent of Internet users bank online.
Sixty-one percent of Internet users in the US now access their bank accounts on the Web. While, 35 percent of cell phone owners in the US bank using their mobile phones.
Continue reading… “51% of adults in the U.S. now bank online”
Fear of failure and lack of self confidence holds women from entrepreneurship.
One reason there are significantly fewer women entrepreneurs than men entrepreneurs is because women often don’t think they are capable of launching their own businesses, according to a new report released by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2012 Women’s Report.
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Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, was arrested in 1977 for a traffic violation.
We see entrepreneurs as successful, self-made men and women. We value their innovation and charitable endeavors. Yet we also associate plenty of negative characteristics with entrepreneurs,stereotyping them as selfish and out to make a profit at whatever cost.
Continue reading… “Entrepreneurs were more likely to cheat and shoplift when the were teens: Study”
Do you need to go off the grid for a little while? You can turn your phone off or you can just slip it inside the OFF Pocket. It’s a portable privacy pocket of sorts that makes your phone untrackable and unhackable. It can successfully shield 100dB of signal in the 800MHz to 2.4GHz frequency range. That includes cellular signals, GPS, and WiFi.
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Gender-based jobless rates change household dynamics.
The European Union’s unemployment rate fell in June for the first time in more than two years — that is, until you consider that 10.9 percent of the union’s workforce is still jobless, and that number for countries that use the euro is 12.1 percent.
Continue reading… “When unemployment rises among men, domestic violence falls”
Fast food workers at dozens of fast food chains are walking out on strike for better wages.
When you think of a typical fast food employee do you think of a teenager working for extra cash, some guy who couldn’t get past high school, or a single mom trying to provide for her kid? Whatever your answer is it will say a lot about your feelings towards the fast food workers who’ve been striking these past months for a $15 hourly wage.
Continue reading… “More that 26% of fast food workers are raising a child”
A great public speaker is authentically present and ready to connect with their audience.
Speakers are so last century when they stand behind a podium glued to the floor, reading from slides and addressing a less than enthusiastic audience. It’s 2013, and successful speakers need to be aware that audiences have changed. They are better informed, crave connection and expect to be actively engaged in the “conversation.”
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An 1875 flower stand.
The key battleground in today’s high-tech lawsuits may be the US Patent and Trademark Office, but it is also home to a trove of inventions that have fallen into the public domain. Martin Galese, a patent lawyer, is trying to bring some 21st century tech to the charming ideas patented in the 19th and 20th centuries. He’s dug up eccentric creations — from an Escher-esque building block to a combination comb and hair clip — and is rebuilding them using digital modeling tools, allowing anyone with a 3D printer to own a once-patented work from the past.
Continue reading… “3D printing brings new life to old inventions”
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Staples is an example of a major retailer that jumped on the trendy tech bandwagon when it began selling 3D printers. But as developments in the 3D printing space continue to move forward (such as the Stratasys acquisition of MakerBot for $604 million), it’s becoming clear that 3D printing is not temporary trend, but an emerging industry. Keying in on this development, UPS has decided to enter the space by offering 3D printing services at select U.S. locations.
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