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• Social Media Trends for 2010

  Can You Anticpate and Predict Trends? When it comes to Social Media Marketing, what are the latest trends? Where is the ROI? How can you use it to successfully reach your target audience and convert them to customers? After all?somebody?s got to answer to key stakeholders and bottom-line results. What effect will emerging technology applications have? What are the emerging technology platforms? These conversations are on the minds of business leaders all around the world and they are addressed in this blog. David Armano, Conversation Starter blogger for Harvard Business.org , stepped back from his Austin based consultancy delivering social business design services to contemplate and summarize Six (6) Social Media Trends for 2010 from a human behavior perspective. They are:

• Searching For Reasons To Use Google Wave

  If there were ever a need for a “Google Wave For Dummies” book this is the time. But until one is published it looks like a pretty darn good alternative is already on the market; it’s called, The Complete Guide to Google Wave. And it’s FREE! During my Social Media and Future of News class at [...]

• After Being Out Foxed On The Web, MySpace May Do An About Face(book)

  I recently received my monthly email newsletter from MySpace. And that’s about how often I interact with MySpace these days, once a month not on the site, but via its newsletter. Raise your hand if you visited your MySpace profile today? In the past week. Past month? Six months? I don’t see a lot hands up [...]

• Invited To The Google Wave Party

  This must be the week for me to get invites to try new online stuff out. A few days ago Twitter granted me access to test its new “Lists” feature. And today I finally got what some people are calling the toughest “ticket” to get anywhere. No, I’m not talking about a ticket to Michael [...]

• Twitter Lists

  Twitter has begun to roll out its much hyped Twitter Lists feature. As much as I really like Twitter, I can’t say I’m overly excited about Lists. Not sure how it will differ from my favorite Tweeter client, Tweet Deck. Also, what’s up with the no Tweet request? I’ll be checking Lists out to see if it’s worth [...]

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