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Most interesting. Based on what you say, do you believe that marketers are mostly marketing to men, even when they think they are marketing to women?
In my experience almost everything is filtered through males' eyes, not in any deliberate sense but because men control most of the avenues of expression, including advertising & marketing.
I don't say this in an accusatory way. If women controlled as much of cultural expression as men do, no doubt we'd see everything filtered through a woman's eyes.
How Brands Should Appeal To Women
In my work as a cognitive anthropologist I study how the mind works, how people "make meaning," how people form attachments to things (brands), and how people make decisions. Decisions like how to select what to invest in, whether stocks or mates; why and under what conditions, people prefe...
Some of us are already doing it, with Twitter, casually.
Could futurists make scanning a social activity?
In my article "Futures 2.0," I briefly described an idea I've been playing around with for a while: using social software to make scanning more powerful. I've been thinking about how this could work. Scanning is one of the fundamentals of futures practice. Futurists regularly scan the news, maga...
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