Corporations will look to leverage their social media efforts

Social business becomes serious play such as Foursquare are touted for the focus on making networked activity local and mobile and has a game like aspect.

Mobile becomes a social media lifeline with people accessing social media via mobile phone during breaks due companies banning social media access at work

Sharing information no longer means e-mail

The Social Media  movement will desire to have quality, not quantity, as people cocoon in the face of the economic crisis.

Obama-maniacs both for and against will spawn a new age of activism.  

Exclusivity trumps accessibility  in Social Media

Everyone becomes a marketer 

 Facebook’s SocialRank algorithms emerge to drive the open social web 

Tools will develop to reduce noise and deal with RSS overload 

Friend synchronisation tools will develop

Friend list sanitisers will keep your list clean

Social Media tools will help you organise people based on location and business 

Organisations will continue to grapple with the social human web  

Social Media Indigestion will increase

Social Media will become more personalised 

There will be consolidation and shuttering of Social media businesses

Social Media Identity will become aggregated and segmented 

The social media gold rush won’t be as lucrative as everyone thought 

B2B goes social media 

There will be Social Media Multi-Channel Integration 

The transparency debate will continue 

Google will buy Twitter 

Blogger outreach from PR will get better 

Companies increasingly crafting content for Social Media SEO

Sputtering economy will entice companies into the social media space 

Blogging isn’t dead 

Social Media mobile marketing takes off 

Social search will become increasingly important 

Live as it happens content search will become increasingly important 

Better metrics for social media measurement will continue to develop  

Twitter will continue to develop legitimacy 

Online social media video will come into its own 

Customer satisfaction driven by social media communities uprising will make companies see the light 

Social media will create Ad Agency disintermediation 

With the rise of social shopping the ease with which people are able to see feedback .. with confirmed identities will change the eCommerce online shopping game

Social Networks Will Flourish As A Result Of The Economic Crisis

Social networking will grow to provide social support to victims of the crisis

Ranking The Influencers (the engagers) as a measurable tool for new media

Twitter Will Get Recognized For Its Social Search Assets

Twitter will start to emerge as a relevant and updated information source

Twitter evolves as the ultimate human search

Influence will be defined by measurable variables

Google will “pagerank” and “map” peoples influence

People will really become the media.