Facebook is probably the best default for this as you can maintain the invites and funnel interesting tidbits related to a specific industry/company for story ideas. Will news be broken via Facebook or other similar tool, that will be interesting to see.  . Digg, MySpace, FaceBook) will survive as general purpose social sites, but smaller players will need to specialize in order to remain viable. Here are links to other Top Trends for 2008: Top Marketing Trends via CRM Blog. Ochman's 2008 Marketing Trends  - personally, I think privacy has been an issue. MORE >>

About | Advertise | Submissions | Write for Us CrowdsourcedFRD Home Advertising Branding Content Marketing Lead Gen SEO-SEM Social Media More Strategy Design PR eBooks Educational Facebook Guest Posts Twitter Tapping Social Networks for Business: Interview with Clara Shih, author of The Facebook Era November 9th, 2010 | By Deni Kasrel When Clara Shih says social networks are great tools for customer relationship management you can trust she knows what she’s taking about. If you go to Cisco’s Facebook page, they have a great page there and it’s largely B2B oriented. MORE >>

Are you really serious about privacy? The biggest complaint about Klout (recently) is the fact that they have had some privacy breeches, most notably “opting-in minors” who were connected to people who had legitimately participated in Klout. This privacy violation is intolerable. This is a serious issue, but to all the bloggers who are passionate about privacy, I’d like to ask a question — If you have so much energy around Klout, why aren’t you going absolutely ape-shit about Facebook? Are you serious about privacy? MORE >>

MySpace and Facebook sign real-time search deals with Google. Facebook Pushes People to Go Public. Time spent on Facebook by 18-24 year olds declines. Facebook is awarded $711 million in damages from Sanford Wallace, the notorious "Spam King".  Microsoft announces Looking Glass to let marketers look into a real-time social stream aggregating feeds from Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Flickr, and will connect with CRM’s and more. Facebook introduces @Mentions in Status Updates. Facebook announces real-time search. Top word of 2009: Twitter. MORE >>

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