It’s that time of year once again.

No, I’m not talking about pepper-spraying shoppers or mall riots, though it’s certainly been the time of year for that. No, it’s time to make a bunch of media predictions for the coming year.

Social Media Explorer has detailed 5 social media trends to watch in 2012, but Harvard Business Review ups the ante with 6. Not to be outdone, Simply Zesty has 7, while Ragan’s PR Daily comes up with 8. Maybe everyone was afraid that Herman Cain has copyrighted the number 9, since I couldn’t find any “9 Trends To Expect” articles or posts, but Thirty Three Digital slam-dunks the rest of the pack with 10 social media trends for 2012.

Here’s one social media prediction you can bank on: Companies will want to do a lot more of it, even if they don’t quite understand yet what it is.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 at 12:55 pm and is filed under Internet Stuff, Social Media.