1. Social Media Trends Continually rethinking the social space

2. Trend 1: Social media is embedded within people’s lives

3. Your journal Your scrapbook Your research Your newspaper Your phone Your coffee companion Your pillow companion? Social media is embedded in lives

4. Trend 2: Impacting mainstream culture and politics

5. Organizing Raising money Public opinion Bringing widespread few together Impacting culture and politics

6. Trend 3: Content curation makes social media easier

7. Pull in other content Organize it Add your thought leadership Redistribute Become the source Content curation

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9. Trend 4: Social spreads within businesses

10. HR recruitment Sales prospecting Operational transparency Customer service support Marketing and advertising Social businesses

11. Trend 5: Fragmentation and Acquisition

12. New and sometimes even better ideas New networks and even entirely new technologies Facebook and Google will copy or acquire what they can Fragmentation and acquisition

13. Trend 6: Social Gaming Grows

14. 100 million gamers on social networks like Facebook 148 million will be gaming online through Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 26 million playing social games on mobile devices 11.1 million subscribers for World of Warcraft Social gaming grows

15. iPad + toys + 4 year olds = Good?

16. 1.Social media is embedded within people’s lives It isn’t new. You need a plan or at least know why you don’t have one. 2.Impacting mainstream culture and politics Use social media to engage constituents behind your programs. 3.Content curation makes social media easier Show much more activity with less time and people resources. Social trend insights to work with

17. 1.Social spreads within businesses Social media needs to be embraced throughout the organization. 2.Fragmentation and acquisition You’ll never catch up… You’ll never know it all... That isn’t an excuse! 3.Social gaming grows Be creative. But just because it is social doesn’t mean it is good for you! Social trend insights to work with