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Gartner points out that the world of work will probably witness ten major changes in the next ten years. Interesting in that it will change how learning happens in the workplace as well. The eLearning industry will need to account for the coming change and have a strategy in place to deal with the changes.

1. “De-routinization” of work.

2. Work swarms.

Intention Web Information that provides explicit predictions of who will do what next, although it’s not happened yet.  Examples: Upcoming.org, Facebook events, Plancast. Update: Silicon Valley Insider writes about Tweetmeme, Topsy, Sency, OneRiot People can connect to each other, improving experience. Businesses can provide a more contextualized experience for customers or prospects using Social CRM Explicit intentions may not be true, the future is always uncertain. Companies can barely keep up with real time web –let alone predict the future.

In recent months we have seen an explosion in demand for .TV domain names major professional sports leagues and sports network ESPN have started to acquire of develop .TV domains. For example look at: ESPN.TV MLB.TV NHL.TV These new online video sites are not to replace the existing dot com properties that have been developed. Instead they are online extensions to their dot-com Websites.

Privacy is not about control over data nor is it a property of data.  It's about a collective understanding of a social situation's boundaries and knowing how to operate within them.  In other words, it’s about having control over a situation. It's about understanding the audience and knowing how far information will flow.  It’s about trusting the people, the situating, and the context.  People seek privacy so that they can make themselves vulnerable in order to gain something: personal support, knowledge, friendship, etc.

1) Security Through Obscurity Is a Reasonable Strategy 2) Not All Publicly Accessible Data is Meant to be Publicized 3) People Who Share PII Aren’t Rejecting Privacy 4) Aggregating and Distributing Data Out of Context is a Privacy Violation 5) Privacy is Not Access Control

Social norms can and are changing, but that doesn't mean that privacy has been thrown out the door. People care deeply about privacy, care deeply about maintaining context.  But they also care about publicity, or the right to walk out in public and be seen. 

Based on these projections, what do you think there’s gonna be a saturation point with blogging & social media marketing?