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9 social media trends to keep your eye on in 2012

Akamai Marketing

I’m putting my Carnack hat on and writing down the trends I see in social media for 2012. Social CRM: I predict in 2012, I think we’re going to see an increasing attempt to translate digital profiles back to a customer. By the end of 2012, we’ll start to see some beginnings of what makes up social ROI.

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Why Influence Mining is the Next Gold Rush | social crm | Social.

Convince & Convert

Combine that with location and mobile data, and you get real-time smart agents that tell you whom you should approach in a restaurant to buy a drink. But there is going to be an explosion of other smart agents. “Who Should I Know&# for example, is a relevant and important question that needs to be better answered. JF : Hyper-targeting.

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102 Compelling Social Media and Online Marketing Stats and Facts for 2012 (and 2013)

Webbiquity SMM

Find the answers to these questions and many, many more here in over 100 engaging and intriguing social, search, content, inbound, email, mobile and other marketing stats and facts from the past few months. 25 Social Media Facts and Statistics. Social CRM is still confusing. e-Strategy Trends ). eMarketer ).

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Link Love Monthly: Best of March 2011

SocialFish

bitly’s Got a Brand New Mobile Site! Real-Time Analytics For Social Plugins (Facebook Developer Blog). The State and Future of the Social Media Management System Space (Jeremiah Owyang). 29 social networks that have at least one million visitors per day (Royal Pingdom). New in Gmail Labs: Smart Labels (Gmail Blog).

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

As mobile browsers become more powerful, Google and its partners decided to do things their own way. I believe the mobile Web will eventually win, and that apps are here as a transitionary measure until we can sort out browsers that are good enough to emulate the Web experience on mobile.”

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Would You Try It With a Fox?

Convince & Convert

I feel like the other guy in the story- will you try social media if I give you some great case studies? Will you embrace Twitter if I can show you ROI? link] marionguthrie I read a forecast about the huge growth in mobile advertising in just 5 years, by 2015. Why are you being soooo stubborn?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

I believe Twitter will ultimately be the way that we interact with brands, and will power the social CRM movement. Tom Webster theorizes this may be due to Twitter’s functional similarity to text messaging, as several studies have shown Black Americans use the mobile Web at rates roughly double that to non-Hispanic Whites.