Which communications trends will your NGO be pursuing in 2016?
Nationwide, about 23,000 — or one in four — public primary and secondary schools are using videoconferencing, according to Alan D. Greenberg, a senior analyst at Wainhouse Research, a consulting company that tracks communications trends.
Brands are using emojis to communicate with their target audience, to infiltrate their mobile phones, to demonstrate that they are on top of the latest communications trends, and also to convey messages in elegantly simple ways.
Rik Ferguson, director of security research and communications at Trend Micro, said the existence of Dedicatexpress showed how sophisticated the underground economy had become.
And most of the services that lobbyists provide to clients these days fall under the broad title of "public affairs" or "political communications"—forecasting trends, advising on policy and teaching them to "speak the language of government".Nor are profit-seeking businessmen the only folk who lobby.
We already live much of our lives through digital communications, and the trend will only accelerate, so we need swift reform, or the problems will escalate.
We feel strongly that Twilio's success in enabling developers to build creative and engaging applications in an area with clunky, inefficient alternatives — e.g. communications — is a trend we are going to see more and more of in the future. .
The quantitative measure of MOVE! communications shows a trend similar to the other measures.
Social psychologists like Sherry Turkle, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has studied the social impact of mobile communications, say these trends are likely to continue as cellphones morph into mini hand-held computers, social networking devices and pint-size movie screens.
This article is a part of a series exploring communications and media trends in honor of the second annual Communications Week, a week-long series of events celebrating the communications industry, held from October 19-23, 2015.
