Today I read in MediaPost’s Online Media Daily that insurance companies are going to spend about $980 million on internet marketing in 2007. That’s a lot. The breakdown will be about 50% to search, 30% online video and other forms of rich media, and 20% display.

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Kids these days are super-demanding. They’re smart, they’re savvy, and they have us employers over the barrel. These kids will quit. They jump from job to job, increasing their compensation by 20%-50% each time instead of the paltry 4%-5% raises of yore. Loyalty doesn’t pay because employers aren’t loyal to them. Employers must adjust and comply. Too many opportunities and too many options!

“The UK’s business leaders are being warned they must embrace flexible working and consumer technologies if they are to attract and retain the next generation of workers.” Via Silicon.com

My former employer, a so-called new media company, fancied its employees spoiled, entitled, and needing to become more realistic or they would be forever unemployable. Trick is, things will never be the same again.

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