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Top : Trends - Whats Next: Where will social media go next? It's good to be prepared for changes in this fast paced cyber world, if you want to do business in it.
Articles:Social Media in 2011: We Still Have a Long Way to Go | Social Media Today - by Robin Carey’m going to kick the crystal ball way ‘cross the room. Who in his right mind could have predicted last year that WikiLeaks would become a global brand, or that its founder would be facing charges of sexual assault in Sweden for failing to fix a condom? (Where is James Ellroy on this?) That Sarah Palin would end up with over 340,000 twitter followers? Or that Delicious would die? Rather than make predictions that serve social media in general and our business in particular, I’m going to share with our members, followers, “like”-ers and random lurkers some of what we’re noticing as a business and what we think should happen, even if it doesn’t. (Added: 23-Dec-2010 Hits: 99 ) Is 2011 The Year of the Social Media Bubble - by Eric Brown everal camps are starting to chant that 2011 may well be the year of The Social Media Bubble. I would not proclaim to be able to predict the future by any means, but it sure seems more probable than not. While having little experience predicting the future, we have had an up close and personal relationship with the real estate bubble. Developing real estate used to be a pretty fun endeavor, however the past couple of years of operating our boutique apartment rental business in SE Michigan has had more challenges than we ever imagined. But as with all struggles, there has been a bright side, a bubble burst quickly trims out the weeds and the low hanging fruit. (Added: 28-Dec-2010 Hits: 130 ) 2011 trends: Social media marketing and ROI - by Urs E Gattiker Some good thoughts in this short article and some nice critical thinking, too. of course, predicting the future is guesswork, but what the heck. (Added: 28-Nov-2010 Hits: 106 ) How We Shared Content in 2010: Still More Facebook, More Email Than Twitter, MySpace Lives On - by na The link sharing service AddThis, which said this month that it's now tracking the interests of more than 1 billion people across the web, has published an infographic breaking down the most popular destinations for content shared through its little widget. Sites with an AddThis widget (like ours, above) allow readers to send pages of interest to friends through 300 different methods. What's the most popular way people share? (Added: 30-Dec-2010 Hits: 150 ) Buzz Kill : LOL: The Life of Leo Laporte - Must Read - by Leo Laporte Something happened tonight that made me question everything I've done with social media since I first joined Twitter in late 2006...says tech guru Leo Laporte on his blog. READ this! (Added: 22-Aug-2010 Hits: 42 ) Uncommon 2011 Predictions For Social Media - Ouch On Twitter - by Robert Bacal #1: Twitter Staggers, Trips, and Can Barely Get Up 2011 is the year that the darling of venture capitalists, Twitter, hits the skids. Faced with an inability to develop and implement a revenue generation model that actually works, and another year with limited return on investment, venture capitalists who have invested and own chunks of Twitter become angry and threaten to close the never-ending flow of fool's money. (Added: 23-Dec-2010 Hits: 142 ) TrendsSpotting's 2010 Social Media Influencers - Trend Predictions in 140 Characters Slideshow - by na Of course, it's all speculation but some of the folks weighing in on social media trends have some interesting things to say. Worth a look. (Added: 18-Aug-2010 Hits: 52 ) What Happens at the End of the Social Media Adoption Curve? - by Dana VanDen Heuvel As bloggers and social media pundits, we’re often scouring the data from reports to get a firm grip on what's really happening in the worth of social media. We look at reports like Forrester 2010 Technographics research and the recent data from Pew Internet’s Older Adults and Social Media research study that showed that social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled—from 22 percent in April 2009 to 42 percent in May 2010 to see how the demographics track with the behavior. The most recent work from Pew tracks with the expected trajectory coming off of Pew Internet's social media adoption study last August showed the greatest growth in overall social media usage occurred among older users as well with one in four (26 percent) users age 65 and older now use social networking sites. All great points for the social media culture to be sure. All that having been said, it shows, as Geoff Livingston pointed out in The End of the Social Media Adoption Road and Jeremy Victor backed up with data in Has social media for business hit the mainstream?. We’re approaching the 'end of the adoption curve, so to speak in the world of social media. (Added: 23-Dec-2010 Hits: 118 )
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