Based on insights from her book , the podcast looks at trends and predictions about what the workforce will look like in 2020. By 2020, the workplace will be highly personalized and social. Social networks will be the first point of contact between companies and their future employees and internal social networks will be the primary way that workers communicate, connect and collaborate. For Millennial and 2020 employees, smart mobile devices are appendages and social networking is second nature. By Jeffrey Katzman. MORE >>

Since 2004, many Analysts have written about how social-media is just a fad and how twitter and facebook status messages will eventually take over blogging. If we were to believe reports, then in 2007 Gartner predicted that blogging will peak in 2008 and then it will fizzle out. Blogs will continue to create clouds of meaningful social discussion. Tags: social networking blog trends twitter I recently read an article in The Economist highlighting a report that shows that "the rate of growth of blogs has slowed in many parts of the world. MORE >>

His post was entitled ' Twitter drives traffic to blogs and social networks ', and in it he claims that Twitter is the semantic web. The key presumed attributes of the semantic web are its psuedo-intelligent predictive and filtering capabilities: Back in 1999 Sir Tim Berners-Lee declared: "I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers." Tags: social network AJ Cann semantic web Twitter Although the Semantic Web (Web 3.0?) MORE >>

It is time once again to ponder the research, extrapolate on recent experience, and attempt to read the tea leaves so we can predict the future of enterprise mobile learning in 2011. After such an exciting and rewarding 2010, my predictions for the coming year seem broader and more varied given the fast changing dynamics of the marketplace and accelerated adoption of mobile learning by organizations of all sizes. Private Social Networks Win Over Public. mLearning Engagements Expand. If 2010 was the year of the pilot, then 2011 will be the year of the deployment. MORE >>

In follow-up of the predictions I made in 2009 , I take a go at predicting the learning evolutions for 2010 (oh, how I wish I had an oracle to advise me). In a more elaborate sense, here are my 8 predictions for 2010: Semantics : Learning will become the rave again. Social media will become more streamlined, and all present: the last couple of year’s new social media applications sprung up. Social media will become normal for any type of learning, because it favors networks and connections. What are your predictions for 2010? education2.0, MORE >>