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A brief overview of social web trends that we can anticipate taking up increasing air-space over the next 12 months. Some trends (e.g. Big Data) have wider implications than 'social web' but are included for completeness.

Steve Dale shares some amazing facts and trends about social media

"Gamification has emerged as a significant trend in recent years. Gamification uses game mechanics and game design techniques in non-gaming context - it's a powerful tool to engage employees, customers and the public to change behaviors, develop skills and drive innovation. Our Special Report evaluates the trends, how gamification is being applied in various industries and explores its future opportunities."

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The Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2017 focuses on three emerging technology mega-trends: Artificial intelligence (AI) everywhere, transparently immersive experiences and digital platforms.

The Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2017 focuses on three emerging technology mega-trends: Artificial intelligence (AI) everywhere, transparently immersive experiences and digital platforms.

Workers looking for jobs in 2035 might consider retraining as remote-controlled vehicle operators or online chaperones. Those are two of the jobs of the future suggested in a report by the CSIRO that charts 20-year trends in increasingly digitally focused and automated Australian workplaces.

Every industry is becoming an analytics industry because of the inclusion of data-driven technology. Traditional industries, such as healthcare and finance, are actually purchasing analytic technologies with the intent of becoming digital leaders in their industry. IoT is regarded as a future trend, and according to Gartner, by 2018, six billion connected things will be requesting data support. This requires tools that are future-proofed to handle the mass and types of data that Gartner is forecasting.

AI being used for driverless cars, energy saving and personal assistants (bots)

"Gamification can turn otherwise unpleasant tasks like data analysis, setting through data, paying attention to specific code and other intense activities that can be quite tedious and boring and turn them into something fun. This is why Gamification is such a hot trend in technology because it can truly reinvent work."

The State of Community Management (SOCM) 2013 report is now available. This looks at ongoing research into the standards, trends and opportunities for community management.     This is one of several reports that will be released by The Community Roundtable. This one explores the role of community managers and their impact on organisations.

Jenny Ambrozek is a KIN Associate

Has Web 2.0 lost it's sparkle? Finding multiple posts suggest an intriguing trend.

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The focus is technology developments but a good resource if you are interested in industry trends and what's new from leading enterprise software providers

A great example of AI in action is on Wall Street, where traders and bankers are being slowly replaced with machines. Wall Street is now a lot more sedate and well behaved. Investment decisions and trades are based on algorithms, statistics and trends, rather than prevailing human emotion or gut instinct. Is this is a good thing or bad?

Suggestic, an application and Internet-based platform, is looking to fuse medical advances with a growing trend of personalized healthcare - making interventions specific to the individual patient. The company launched a beta version of its technology earlier this month and has a few thousand people signed up in their waiting list to try out the service.

"A look at what the technological terrain will look like in 2018"