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Six Social Media Trends for 2010

In the new year, online communication will get even more popular, more mobile, and more exclusive, according to David Armano

In 2009 we saw exponential growth of social media. According to Nielsen Online, Twitter alone grew 1,382% year-over-year in February, registering a total of just more than 7 million unique visitors in the US for the month. Meanwhile, Facebook continued to outpace MySpace. So what could social media look like in 2010? In 2010, social media will get even more popular, more mobile, and more exclusive—at least, that's my guess. What are the near-term trends we could see as soon as next year? In no particular order:

1. Social media begins to look less social
With groups, lists and niche networks becoming more popular, networks could begin to feel more "exclusive." Not everyone can fit on someone's newly created Twitter list and as networks begin to fill with noise, it's likely that user behavior such as "hiding" the hyperactive updaters that appear in your Facebook news feed may become more common. Perhaps it's not actually less social, but it might seem that way as we all come to terms with getting value out of our networks—while filtering out the clutter.

2. Corporations look to scale
There are relatively few big companies that have scaled social initiatives beyond one-off marketing or communications initiatives. Best Buy's Twelpforce leverages hundreds of employees who provide customer support on Twitter. The employees are managed through a custom built system that keeps track of who participates. This is a sign of things to come over the next year as more companies look to uncover cost savings or serve customers more effectively through leveraging social technology.

Here is short list of the best 150 Social Media Networks, Websites where you need to protect identity if you are serious abt New Media and Social Media.

http://www.12seconds.tv/

It's in Beta stage. They say it is a tweetable commercial(Broadcast videos to twitter). You can sell your bike car or even a sock monkey.

http://www.43things.com/

Discover what's important, make it happen, share your progress. Find your 43 things.

http://www.activerain.com/

This is a real estate network site.

http://www.ask.com/

Hola! People,

Below are some of my all time Fav. and most effective Social Media Marketing Websites and tools.

If you use them effectively chances are you don't need a Social Media Consultant (Or shall I say so called Guru's!)  Go thru all of them one by one, create a common identity on each of them, post content which is current and relevant for your Business today, post your website and Blog links, just try this to start with and see your visibility factor skyrocket within weeks!

Ofcourse there are Zillion more intelligent things to do, but this is a great start. I strongly believe for each customer, brand, firm the online marketing strategy must be totally unique and fresh and focused completely on what client wants to achieve the end goal, period!

Don't get carried away with online Jargons and too many things you could get lost in, relax, breath well and drink lots of water :)

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

YouTube

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Qalias

MerchantCircle

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