Marian Salzman: 'Local will be the new global'

You have to hand it to Marian Salzman. For someone known internationally as a media futurist it takes some self-confidence to confess that you thought Facebook was just a pointless student fad, and that your initial reaction to Twitter was that it was

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Marian Salzman "Forward, Backwards and Sideways, Now Reboot"

Story by Marian Salzman, Porter Novelli. Published in CoolBrands, the CoolBrandsbook and seeded online by CoolStoryTelling.

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Marian Salzman PN Seattle 3/10/09

Porter Novelli's CMO and trendspotter Marian Salzman discusses consumer and business trends for Seattle and beyond.

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Porter Novelli Presents Marian Salzman

Marian Salzman of Porter Novelli discusses tomorrow’s trends and influences.

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Marian Salzman Proves Peroxide Causes Brain Damage

Who’s to blame for the economy going into serious decline? The short and easy answer is: Greedy Boomers. Short and easy? Is that what Marian Salzman gets paid big bucks to do? Come up with the short and easy answer? I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. That she was making such a wide-sweeping generalization and then would debunk it. Wrong.

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Marian Salzman

Marian Salzman, the EVP and director of strategic content at JWT (J. Walter Thompson), is one of the world’s leading futurists and strategists. Most recently, she spent nearly four years at Euro RSCG Worldwide,

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Consumer Trends 2008: Radical Transparency, E-ddiction

Even if you don't put a great deal of store in the pronouncements of trendspotters, it's still fun to see what they're predicting. Here we have the thoughts of JWT Worldwide's CMO Marian Salzman, who claims to have predicted the rise of metrosexuals, among other trends

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How They Hear the Buzz Before It's Buzz

What's the next hot thing? For these market researchers, the future is now. Meet Marian Salzman, a futurist. She is one of them and she knows...

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