Thursday, January 20, 2011

Social Media Trends for 2010

I came across there six social media trends for 2010 while reading a blog for Harvard Business Review:
1. Social media begins to look less social (or it might seem that way because of all the clutter and noise that we can see on Twitter, facebook, etc)
2. Corporations look to scale (more companies are looking to provide customer support on twitter, etc)
3.
Social business becomes serious play (some networks, like foursquare, have a game-like component)
4. Your company will have a social media policy (and it might actually be enforced)
5. Mobile becomes a social media lifeline (as 70 percent of organizations ban social networks, employees might be looking to "feed their social media addictions on their mobile devices")
6. Sharing no longer means e-mail (for exmaple, "The New York Times iPhone application recently added sharing functionality which allows a user to easily broadcast an article across networks such as Facebook and Twitter.")

I thought it was interesting. You can read the full article at
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2009/11/six_social_media_trends.html

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