The latest Harvard Business blog published a new article featuring 6 social media trend for next year. As it is the Harvard Business blog, it’s always worth to mention in a conversation, just for the pleasure of using the “Harvard Business” keywords 🙂

1. Social media begins to look less social
2. Corporations look to scale
3. Social business becomes serious play
4. Your company will have a social media policy (and it might actually be enforced)
5. Mobile becomes a social media lifeline
6. Sharing no longer means e-mail

Surprisingly, there is no mention of the buzzword of this end of year – Real time web –
Does it mean that the Harvard Business blog consider we already are in the real time web, or is it just a fading buzzword ?
As for me, I would have add an additionnal observation – the split between the web of content (creation of articles, original stories, opinion) and the web of links (bookmarks, RT, quotes, etc) is ever more important … a trend to take in account.

And what would be your social media trend for 2010 ?

http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2009/11/six_social_media_trends.html