It's getting close to the end of the year, so the prediction postings have already begun.
Joel Postman's posting on Social Media Today (and Socialized) offers the following 5 social media predictions for 2010 – briefly listed below – but read the posting for more detail:
- Augmented Reality Applications Will Start to Go Mainstream
- Location-Based Applications Will Dissolve Into General Social Networks
- Enterprise Social Software Applications Will Become Commonplace
- More Social Media Regulation Will Follow the FTC’s October Endorsement Guides
- Social Search Will Shake Out, and the Search Metaphor Will Change
I'll post about more when I find them.
Anybody want to add their own in the the comments below?
Great thoughts! I would add more integration of applications.
Increasingly, our favourite social media apps are meeting in single locations: for example, my TweetDeck and Posterous postings automatically show up on Twitter, FaceBook and other locations of my choice. This way I don’t have to visit them all.
The other Big Integrator will be Google Wave, which has tremendous potential for blending the best of chat, email, wikis and file sharing. It is a new paradigm and a steep new learning curve, but it is going places.
Marie-Therese, thanks for your thoughts. Integration would certainly be on my “wishlist” too.
Hi Jane
I like Joel’s post. Maybe I would also add some specific predictions regarding the usage and trends when it comes to social media marketing:
2010 trends: Social media marketing
http://commetrics.com/articles/leverage-best-practice/
Thanks for sharing this
Regards
Urs
@ComMetrics
I think that Marie-Therese is on the mark (and I find Urs’s predictions of social media marketing trends fascinating). My crystal ball, foggy as it is, foresees an interesting intersection of two forces—an influence from K-12 teachers who are far ahead of most college/university faculty in awareness of and use of social media AND many social media apps becoming more MAINSTREAM as commercial software vendors become enlightened and threatened.
I enjoyed this post greatly. I believe that, some years from now, we will look back at 2009 as the year web search got transformed in a big way and by the end of 2010 the world of search and related industries will begin to look very different.