The State of Social Media in 2010 / Social Media Club Omaha

SOCIAL MEDIA The state of in 2010 Trends, rants, and 10 predictions from Nathan T. Wright / Lava Row @NathanTWright male / 33yo / 6'2" Web designer gets poor offer for soul TheAge.com.au May 2002 #SMCOmaha So... how did we get here? Social media is now the most popular form of online activity... ahead of PORN. - Hitwise / Experian, September 2009 misserion / flickr 210 years of information Source: Baekdal.com 1.) The word 'social media' will soon go away. 2.) Facebook is an identity company. Project Titan Facebook Open Graph The 'Like' Button Facebook Credits 3.) Finance will be the next industry disrupted by the Internet. 4.) Newspapers are changing shape. Fast. 5.) "TV" will spread across many platforms and devices. 6.) Cars and planes will become mobile devices with amazing social apps. 8.) Twitter will evolve away from a social network into a mainstream publishing platform for media and business. 10.) Location-based networks will add layers of metadata to IRL situations. Thank you. 7.) All websites will be social. sicarr / flickr Customer service Public relations CRM Crisis communications Lead generation Sales / Marketing Human resources Talent recruiting 'Social' is inherent to business, and to the Web. Facebook buys Friendfeed for $50 million Paul Buchheit 400 million+ (Just a year ago: 175 million) Only China and India have bigger populations. Here comes mom... 8 billion minutes, each day www.myparentsjoinedfacebook.com $ Peer-to-peer currency exchange (The distributed Web) (Search implications) Is it Whuffie? Gary Vaynerchuk's "thank you" economy? The "cooling off" period: Engadget and Pantagraph both turned off comments for a bit. - "Cooling off" period - Enforce commenting policy - Staff participation - Ban anonymity - The "hopper" - Detach comments from stories - Reboot the system Silicon Prairie / TechCrunch / IowaFlood.com Twitter tip: Swing the Unfollow Hammer often. 9.) Social CRM is about to become a big industry. The average person holds down 7-8 different careers in their lifetime, and currently has 3 email addresses. glenbowman / flickr What else should we talk about? @nathantwright / nathan@lavarow.com / lavarow.com (BTW, have you tried nathansquare?)