It's that time of year when reporters, bloggers and companies take out their crystal ball to predict trends for 2008. Here are my top three trends that will impact the PR industry: Digg, MySpace, FaceBook) will survive as general purpose social sites, but smaller players will need to specialize in order to remain viable. 1.     Let a 100 Blogomerates Bloom: With the relaunch of Industry Standard (I believe as a blog) and the popularity of GigaOm , VentureBeat and TechCrunch , I envision more blogomerates gaining prominence and influence on the media landscape. "Traditional

Good recap of sites like Digg, Del.icious.us, YourElevatorPitch, Shoutwire, StumbleUpon, Ma.gnolia and others… CoTweet :   Self proclaimed: “how business does Twitter”  a beta app providing for multiple accounts/multiple uses; keyword monitoring and trend tracking, duty cycle alerts, click tracking, tweet scheduling, threaded conversations, and more. Posted in Client Side, Marcom for B2B, Statistics/Factoids/Trends Tagged: B2B Marketing, Marketing Communications, Other Popular Posts:      DIY Media Buying Or Use A Pro ?   Twitter Deivers A PR Gem       Email Scoop +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (Read time: 3 minutes) I’ll try not to boil the “tool” ocean. 

We continue our series of posts about the biggest trends in Marketing Automation for 2010 with a trend that may sound contrarian. Trend 3. So, we all need to provide expertise and advice in the form of quality content so that we’re seen as thought leaders and that trend will clearly continue, right? Go Farther with Community Leadership Read on, and please let me know what you think. Community Leadership Trumps Thought Leadership

Twitter Trends and Search = Watercooler Gossip (the most talked about topics rise to the top) MySpace = Slumber Party for Consumer Brands (Teens, young adults discussing preferences, trends) Digg = Cocktail Party (What’s the latest topic, hottest new trends) Other Popular Posts: DIY Media Buying Or Use A Pro ?      Twitter Deivers A PR Gem            Email +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (Read Read time = 2 minutes)   For me – getting a handle on the “social media” marketing landscape is easier if I simply

We continue our series of posts about the biggest trends in Marketing Automation for 2010: Trend 5. Not only is branding possible and accessible with Social Media, it’s also quite trackable and helps generate demand as well (see trend #1 from this blog, Inbound Marketing Meets Marketing Automation ). In case you missed it, here’s Branding Goes Social HUGE news last week from the B2C marketing world: Pepsi drops Super Bowl for Social Media .

Trends IdeaScale ( our coverage ) does for research and development what Get Satisfaction does for customer service by providing Digg-style feature request boards. Large-scale inducement prizes arent easy to organize, though, so BigCarrot hopes to make it easier by crowdsourcing the prize creation process and letting anyone create or contribute to a prize Posted in Crowdsourcing , Features , Trends and tagged with crowdsourcing Subscribe Print ReadWriteWeb

Trends Soon-to-be sophomore and official Yale blogger, Sam Jackson , puts this concept to work on his own site, where he blogs about higher education marketing trends. You graduated! Posted in Features , Social Web , Trends and tagged with classroom , education , gen y , opml , social media Subscribe Print Digg Share Related Entries ReadWriteWeb

Trends The example pipe below would filter our feed and return only posts that talk about "Facebook" in the title. Posted in Products , RSS & Feed Management and tagged with blastfeed , feed rinse , feed sifter , filtering , filtermyfeeds , rss , yahoo pipes , zaptxt Subscribe Print Digg Share Related Entries Whats Next on the Web:

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ClickPredictions: Key Content Marketing Trends and Predictions for 2010 , an intriguing ebook just released by Marketo and ClickDocuments , attempts to provide some answers. To compile the ebook, the sponsors asked 38 of the world’s top b2b marketers (and me) to offer insights on key marketing trends and predictions for the coming year. Content marketing is, in many ways, the new advertising. What does 2010 hold for content marketing? Prospects, particularly for complex b2b products, don’t care about marketing copy, they care about solving their problems.