- Corporations will look to leverage their social media efforts
- Social business becomes serious play such as Foursquare are touted for the focus on making networked activity local and mobile and has a game like aspect.
- Mobile becomes a social media lifeline with people accessing social media via mobile phone during breaks due companies banning social media access at work
- Sharing information no longer means e-mail
- The Social Media movement will desire to have quality, not quantity, as people cocoon in the face of the economic crisis.
- Obama-maniacs both for and against will spawn a new age of activism.
- Exclusivity trumps accessibility in Social Media
- Everyone becomes a marketer
- Facebook’s SocialRank algorithms emerge to drive the open social web
- Tools will develop to reduce noise and deal with RSS overload
- Friend synchronisation tools will develop
- Friend list sanitisers will keep your list clean
- Social Media tools will help you organise people based on location and business
- Organisations will continue to grapple with the social human web
- Social Media Indigestion will increase
- Social Media will become more personalised
- There will be consolidation and shuttering of Social media businesses
- Social Media Identity will become aggregated and segmented
- The social media gold rush won’t be as lucrative as everyone thought
- B2B goes social media
- There will be Social Media Multi-Channel Integration
- The transparency debate will continue
- Google will buy Twitter
- Blogger outreach from PR will get better
- Companies increasingly crafting content for Social Media SEO
- Sputtering economy will entice companies into the social media space
- Blogging isn’t dead
- Social Media mobile marketing takes off
- Social search will become increasingly important
- Live as it happens content search will become increasingly important
- Better metrics for social media measurement will continue to develop
- Twitter will continue to develop legitimacy
- Online social media video will come into its own
- Customer satisfaction driven by social media communities uprising will make companies see the light
- Social media will create Ad Agency disintermediation
- With the rise of social shopping the ease with which people are able to see feedback .. with confirmed identities will change the eCommerce online shopping game
- Social Networks Will Flourish As A Result Of The Economic Crisis
- Social networking will grow to provide social support to victims of the crisis
- Ranking The Influencers (the engagers) as a measurable tool for new media
- Twitter Will Get Recognized For Its Social Search Assets
- Twitter will start to emerge as a relevant and updated information source
- Twitter evolves as the ultimate human search
- Influence will be defined by measurable variables
- Google will “pagerank” and “map” peoples influence
- People will really become the media.