One of the often overlooked aspects of social media is that it can often be seen a pointer for developing and emerging trends.
Google Trends Now Has Hotness
The experimental Google Trends site has added another measurement for searches, highlighting the hottest trends for site visitors.
Web Analytics Job Trends
To followup on my predictions here is the latest update on “Web Analytics” jobs.
This snapshot was taken on April 1st.
Starting this month, I chose to include simplyhired.com. They are also a job aggregator site like indeed.com but they also provide job boards called job-a-matic, like the Job Board I have on my blog.
Podcasting Trends of 2006
PodZinger has published the results of a study, revealing the top searches and trends on its site for 2006. The statistics showed that sports, talk personalities and world news topped audio search, while current events and pop culture accounted for the majority of online video searches.
Tracking RSS Reading Trends With Google Reader
Google’s added a nifty little tool to Google Reader that allows you to view stats on your RSS reading trends.
Marketing Trends for 2007
As the year comes to a close, it’s time to look forwards to next year and what are shaping up to be some key trends for marketers to track through the year.
Spot 2007 Trends with YouTube
Trend blog PSFK figured out a great way to leverage crowdscourcing and social media to round up 2007 trend predictions.
Online Video Trends & Contextual Advertising
PodZinger has announced the results of its proprietary research into consumer behavior and online video advertising viewing preferences. The research reveals that not only will viewers tolerate advertisements that appear during their search for online audio and video content, they willingly accept that short ads come with the territory.
Trends In Human Resources
The role of the Human Resources Department has changed dramatically over the past 30 years and will become increasingly more strategic in nature in the future, said a leading light of the HR community in the recent 2006 Annual Conference and Exposition of HR practitioners in Washington, DC.
New Online Shopping Trends
In this article, I am going to be talking about some new studies and reports that have been made available. I do not want to bore you with a bunch of numbers and statistics, but sometimes by looking at the numbers, we can realize certain areas that we can improve on for online businesses and realize areas that we do well in. We can give ourselves a big pat on the back and feel good about ourselves.