Prediction 10 was:
10. Mobile Phone Virus
More and more mobile virus stories will hit the headlines. Only for the real story to emerge that to catch one you’d have to be as unlucky as getting struck by lightening on a clear day while standing in a rubber suit at the bottom of a swimming pool.
Mobile viruses (to date) are non-stories. But as P2P file sharing takes off, who knows?
By the way, Prediction 9 if you’re following this was about blogging, not mobile. Bloggers writing stories about blogging can be very self-indulgent, so I skipped this one this time.
But, if you are interested, this is what I wrote:
9. Blogging
Continues to grow and dominate the news and opinion agenda. The age of the Pro:Am is upon us. Get involved in the conversation, corporately or personally as the revolution tightens its grip.
Business blogging will be the big thing this year. As Tom Peters says:
Blogging, I firmly believe, is the premier emergent marketing-brandbuilding-lovemarkcreating tool of our times! It is the premier way to have intimate-engaging-informative-WOWing “conversations” with Clients and prospects! This all goes double for small enterprises and niche enterprises; and goes triple for the Professional Services; and works wonders in the Public Sector as well.
Do you see Blogging in these exalted lights? If not, why not? Please…Blog-As-If-Your-Professional-Success-Depended-On-It. (Hint: I think it does.)
Begin today! Appoint yourself Chief Blogging Officer. Or, better yet, Chief Intimate Client Conversations Officer!
A little over the top perhaps, but the message is right, methinks.
Since then, I came up with the idea of auctioning ad space on this blog on eBay. There’s two days to go and it can still be had quite cheaply ($52).
So don’t forget to place your bids if you want to hit 40,000 readers interested in the mobile space.
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