4.5 Trends for Social Media in 2010 – Sarah Beeny
RISE
1) Social media will become more personal
. Ability to control the information you see in your network
(Twitter lists, Facebook friend lists, ability to hide friends news feed, niche networks)
. Ability to personalize your contacts even more
. Real-time search will make all of Your content searchable
2) Social media will become mobile
. Ubiquitous – always with you
. Mobile phones provide personal and easy access to social media platforms
. Social networks will become Location-aware
. Companies will keep banning social networks at work pushing employees to use their smartphones for “social media” breaks
3) Your Social network will follow you around the internet
. A Universal login will allow you log into any site with your Facebook or twitter account
. Making it easy to share content with your network
. And making sure you get personalised content
4) Corporate emphasize on the ROI of social media
. Metrics to measure your social media will be defined, and related back to cost.
. Monitoring/measuring social media conversations will become even more important
FLOP
5) Twitter won’t be able to commercialise it community , which begs the question, How is Twitter going to make enough money, for the service to continue to function?
RISE
1) Social media will become more personal
. Ability to control the information you see in your network
(Twitter lists, Facebook friend lists, ability to hide friends news feed, niche networks)
. Ability to personalize your contacts even more
. Real-time search will make all of Your content searchable
2) Social media will become mobile
. Ubiquitous – always with you
. Mobile phones provide personal and easy access to social media
platforms
. Social networks will become Location-aware
. Companies will keep banning social networks at work pushing
employees to use their smartphones for “social media” breaks
3) Your Social network will follow you around the internet
. A Universal login will allow you log into any site with your
Facebook or twitter account
. Making it easy to share content with your network
. And making sure you get personalised content
4) Corporate emphasize on the ROI of social media
. Metrics to measure your social media will be defined, and related
back to cost.
. Monitoring/measuring social media conversations will become even
more important
FLOP
5) Twitter won’t be able to commercialise it community , which begs the
question, How is Twitter going to make enough money, for the service to continue to function?
