“>Halo!

And just like that several articles popped up to exactly illustrate how life as we know it, well let’s just say 2012 is coming faster than you think, but in a way you haven’t considered (I wonder if the Mayans had insight into the Googled world?).

Privacy Is Dead and Social Media Is the Smoking Gun by Pete Cashmore, founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about social media.

10 things Google has taught us by Ken Auletta, author of Googled The End of the World as We Know It.

4 Emerging Trends of the Real Time Web by Bernard Moon, Mashable.

Just a little of that serendipity I was talking about on the video.

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For some very luscious rooms done in pink, head on over to Style Rumors.

It’s hard to say which take on it is my favorite, but I’m loving this soft pink made even softer with the dove grey, and that retro look–very cool.

Great post all about pink!

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No longer just a space for geeks and tweens, Twitter founders plan to hit 1 billion users by 2013. If that’s an impressive enough number for you to finally figure out how to get on it and use it, here are several links I recommend to help get you started. After that just go to www.twitter.com, open up a profile and step in.

If you are anything like me, you’ll get addicted. Or just maybe you’ll start a revolution.

Twitter Traffic: 3 Solutions to Twitter’s Growth Problem: tells you about what Google and Bing are doing to do for Twitter and you.

Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter: Stephen Levy writes in Wired Magazine about the rise and rise of the Twitverse and how it’s biggest problem may well be not becoming as ubiquitous as email.

So, if you are convinced, here’s how you can get up to speed (and don’t worry about reading it all at once before you get started):

Mashable’s Twitter Guide Book 2009

Happy Tweeting!

Note: Twitter Icon Image Set can be downloaded from JungleJar.com.

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First I object to calling the consumer a Post Crisis Consumer as we know the worst is still happening……

Secondly there’s some arrogance about the assessment of the trends; I don’t dispute the trends just some of the assessments. There’s a notation on a yacht club becoming blue collar because to join you have to actually work on the boats. I’d say this lacks some transparency. To turn being down trodden into something fashionable is only a continuance of surface living; but there’s hope. In due time the charade may become more real as Main Street takes flight, and we all know it will.

“>John Berzema on the Post Consumer Crisis:

If you’d like to know how to apply these trends to your company’s initiatives, call me.

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I’d like to be the one credited with discovering this great new young talent, but she’s been working on accumulating her own credits, not to mention her own business, for a few years now. Cindy Brown of St. Louis not only has her own design business, LookyLuClothng but she’s also a student in Washington University’s fashion school.

Along with talent, Cindy has an eco conscience and a costumer’s mind so she created this incredible (the above image) from toilet paper rolls. Genius, huh?

But that’s not all, Cindy has a full page of her costumes on her website as well as her original designs and more eco fashion (she has another beautiful one made out of a shower curtain) that can be purchased online.

I’m proud to call Cindy a native of St. Louis, MO but I doubt she’ll be one for very long &;)

In full disclosure I’ve never met Cindy nor do I own any of her clothing……image by Michael Pearce of Black Magic Studio.

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Self described Mediatician Mike Sansone of Converstations points out “>the difference

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No longer the realm of that 60’s stereotype Madison Avenue adman represented in AMC’s popular series “Mad Men,” marketing itself has become democratic (as has most everything else, non?).

For example, consumers now by a wide margin get to decide the fate of a company’s future based on how a company is responding. Today, trending on Twitter is “#TMobileStillSucks.” And sadly, I understand why that particular Tweet is trending.

In the process, several of these tweeters have remarked how TMobile is failing to respond to the tweet outcry.

Enter the era of the consumer having the last word.

Ahhh, the fun of it.

So, marketer, CEO, customer service guy gal, revenge is sweet, sayeth the Tweet.

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Alexander McQueen delivered his SS 2010 collection today with evolution as its theme and he picked snakes to get his point across. I don’t have the full inside scoop on that particular detail, but he certainly represented fashion, snakes and the process of evolution flawlessly.

And if that weren’t enough, he really made (air) waves by going direct to the cyberspace fashion collective by tweeting about his video of the collection done in conjunction with fashion photog Nick Knight. Just prior to the runway show, Nick Knight did an up close interview with McQueen sitting at a kitchen table drinking from a very proper cup of tea and truly I felt as if I were right there, sitting with Mr. McQueen himself listening to him explain some of his thinking behind fashion, the internet, and his own visions.

Marvelous, marvelous, marvelous stuff. If you ever wanted to know the definition of engagement (that thing all marketers are looking for when they combine mediums to reach their targets), this would be it.

The only hitch was that they had so many visitors to the site, (Lady Gaga tweeted the event) not everyone got on, and so were left disappointed. No worries…bright minds like that leave it on line for everyone who didn’t get to see it the first time. Check here at ShowStudio Alexander McQueen SS2010 Live.

Today marked a shift in fashion history by Alexander McQueen creating a presentation for the world direct to them, not just for that select group of editors and buyers and celebs. Not only was there an evolution in Mr. McQueen’s work, there was an evolution in how a luxury fashion designer presents his runway collection to market.

It’ll be interesting to see what happens after this.

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To be fair and balanced about what is happening in this economy one has to take a look at what is currently up with the retail behemoth Wal-Mart and David Faber, a CNBC anchor and reporter, has done just that in his special report “The New Age of Wal-Mart” airing several times throughout October.

Preview The New Age of Wal-Mart.

He covers everything from their new site explorations to their growth overseas and plans for growth in the United States and in the process uncovers the issues Wal Mart is facing as they try to continue this massive expansion. It’s not a bed of roses for the king of retailing and one wonders if in their attempt to solve problems if they aren’t creating more.

I give Faber lots of credit in how he covered the story, being very fair to Wal Mart, covering both its pluses and its minuses while allowing us as viewers and consumers and citizens of the United States to determine for ourselves whether or not Wal-Mart actually is a good thing for this country. Its debatable and is debated in every community they try to move into.

One thing I didn’t fully understand until I saw this report, was how instrumental Wal Mart is right now in the passage of a health care reform package. Their employees for the most part can’t afford the health plan Wal Mart has; according to first hand accounts, it’s expensive and not very good so most don’t carry it. Given the sheer number of employees and size of Wal Mart in the world let alone the United States you would think they alone could bring down pricing on insurance…..I mean they supposedly have on product.

Which begs the question, what kind of buying power does it take to create a good insurance plan for your employees? What’s really at issue here when the largest corporation in the world doesn’t or can’t provide decent health benefits for its employees?

For times and listings of show dates, check CNBC’s site here.

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