Social Media and Internet Trends for 2010
This is for the new book “Socialnomics.” You can find the social media statistics in the video by clicking.
Feel free to check out my social media trends for 2009 to 2010. Enjoy.
Here are the top ten trends according to 10 Golden Rules:
1) Micro communication (iPhone, Twitter, Qik video, iGoogle and RSS subscription)
2) Virtualization (virtual training like USF, Kaplan, Phoenix, and IBM theatre in Second Life)
3) Free (Ning, Jott, WordPress, Twitter, Flickr, iTunes podcasts and iTunes University, UStream, Linked In, Compete, Google Analytics, Quantcast, Spy Fu) Upgrade model built on freemium business model
4) Social Search (Linked In, Twitter, Facebook, Trip Advisor, Yelp, Angie’s List, Bazaar Voice, Pet Co, Amazon) Ratings, reviews and get listed in maps. [see also Google's version of social search]
5) Social Media Monitoring Technorati, Radian 6, Google Blog search (best practices: Zappos) (“Monitor your brand message. Join the conversation. Be genuine. Be transparent. Experiment.)
6) Disentermediation Help a Reporter Out (HARO) Take advantage of “news holes”
7) Micro-communication via dashboards and widgets: Twitterverse, We Follow, Twitter deck, Amazon Associates, Amazon widgets, Mac OS Dashboard (ie Woot.com), Widgetbox, blidgets (4 types: desktop, Facebook, iPhone, and blogs]
8] Video
9) Personal Brand
10) Semantic Web
(thanks to: Ten Golden Rules.com for an impressive prezo)
What do you think are the biggest social media trends for 2010 and beyond?
Thank you for including us in your list of monitoring tools. Engagement is not just a trend, but is becoming a way of life for companies/brands.
Lauren Vargas
Community Manager at Radian6
@VargasL
Glad to Lauren, although i wish I could take credit for the list. Great work you are doing at Radian 6. Thanks for stopping by.
For others in the Twitter realm and interested in Twitter trends and sites of interest you can find via Twitter, check out:
http://topsy.com/
It is amazing that “semantic web” is again a trend for 2010. In fact it is mentioned as a top topic for business strategies in the last years. So I think sematic web offers a wide range of possibilities for feature-rich applications. But not it does not appear in the near future unless there comes the killer-app which enables users to use it.
For more social media stats check out these social media industry reports (note: you have to scroll down):
http://designdamage.com/blog/index.php/resources/