The Smartest Person in the Room is THE Room. Crowdsourcing 20 Trends for Social Business!

I love the saying "The smartest person in the room, is THE room!"   And so this New Year's I decided to crowdsource the top 20 Predictions for 2015.

See if these help you to make your New Year's Resolution for you and your business.  And from me to you, have a super New Year!!!

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30 Words on Dec 30th To Articulate Social!

I was playing around with thoughts of Social .. and since it is December 30th .. I decided to try for 30 words.  I'd love for you to add to and delete from the list below!  (Notice that most of the words start with a C...interesting!

Ready, set, go!!!

  1. Relationships
  2. Content
  3. ROI
  4. Visual
  5. Mobile
  6. Analytics
  7. Engagement
  8. Advocacy
  9. Community
  10. Crowdsourcing
  11. Friend/Fan
  12. Reach
  13. Governance
  14. Reach
  15. Authenticity
  16. Connections
  17. Influence
  18. Sentiment
  19. Infographic
  20. Citizen journalism
  21. Internet of things
  22. Scaled intimacy
  23. Leadership
  24. Branding
  25. Voice
  26. Learn through monitoring
  27. Data
  28. Collaborate
  29. Conversation
  30. Fun!

Trends on Social ! Pacesetters are more than 6X more to use social to improve experience

We just published our new Business Tech Trend report with over 1400 decision makers.    From this report, take a look at gains in Social deployment over the last 2 years.   It is up 106%

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Then we studied the Pacesetters.  Pacesetters are those who have dedicated their competitive focus through technology and are seeing better business value.

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But what I find most exciting -- is the way these Pacesetters are using Social.   They 6X more likely to use Social for communication and to improve client experience.    In addition, they use social 3X more than those laggards for expanding into new segments and markets.

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Please join us on the Entrepreneur huddle to learn more!   https://ibm.biz/techhuddle  

The 3 key take aways to help You become a pacesetter  are:

  1. Understanding the Pacesetters secrets.   Download the picture book:  https://ibm.biz/IBMBTT14
  2. Leverage the data in the study and experiment Developing an App on Bluemix : https://ibm.biz/biztechjam
  3. Register now for Watson Analytics Beta!  This solution brings predictive capability to the non techy! http://www.watsonanalytics.com

Saturday and my Favorite Infographic of the Week!! Millennials

Happy Saturday !    This one of my favorite infographic of the week on the new client -- the Millennial!   These folks are wed to technology -- so much so that 53% of them would rather give up their sense of smell than of technology!  WOW!

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14 in 2014! My 14 Predictions of Trends for the New Year! Vblog

Happy New Year!

I will have a detailed written blog at midnight tonight but in the meantime, here's my Vblog to get you thinking!

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