Top 3 trends for 2011: New Years Series Part 2

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Ali Cochran

Here at Ultraspeed while we can certainly say we provide some of the best Managed Hosting services on the market – we can’t lay claim to predicting the future. Which is why we’ve asked some of the our friends and clients who are doing wonderful things in the online world to let us know what they think are the top three things to look out for in 2011.

In the second part of the New Years Series, Claudie Plen of Edge Thinking kindly shares her top 3 online tools to look out for in 2011.

1. Online Privacy:

I’m pleased to note the rise of new privacy based social networks, a backlash on Facebook’s policies on ownership and information sharing. Diaspora might be the first real competition to Facebook for people who value their privacy and intellectual property.

2. Location, location, location

I’m also quite interested in realtime location based networks too, such as Like Ourselves. More about encouraging on AND offline networking culture compared to Facebook and Foursquare’s ‘checking in’ technology.

3. New LinkedIn tools

LinkedIn’s beta job finder is changing the way people look for jobs and recruit. I’ve always thought that finding a new job should be about growing your network rather than relying on job ads, so this makes perfect sense as a development of their functionality, I’m interested to see how it grows!

>”Claudie Plen is a founding partner of Edge Thinking; a unique consultancy specialising in change, coaching and training for creative environments. Claudie also has specific expertise in network development, having founded two successful Creative Industries networks including Digital Futures, for senior leaders in marketing, advertising and design to explore and brainstorm ideas around cutting edge media technology. She is regularly asked to speak on the subject of building networks to enable partnership, collaboration and knowledge sharing, and to teach networking strategy in a variety of environments. In partnership with Ultraspeed, Claudie will be launching a third network, Digital Futures NFP (Not for Profit) at the end of January”

Click here for Part1 & Part3

About Ali Cochran

Ali is a Marketing Executive at Ultraspeed. You can follow her on Twitter at @alilouisa