This is the time when business, marketing and social media bloggers make predictions and lists of what’s hot for the coming year. I want to pass some of my favorite lists to you for consideration while you plan your 2008 web marketing strategy.

• Jeremiah Owyang, a Forrester Analyst in social media gives us his Complete List of the Many Forms of Web Marketing for 2008. You won’t implement initiatives in all these areas, but your strategy should include considering which are right for your company.

• TechCrunch lists 2008: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without. These are social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, Digg and many, many more. Don’t know all the companies TechCrunch lists? Time to familiarize yourself, because the social media wave is only going to get bigger. Ride it, don’t drown in it.

• Mashable’s 2008 Predictions touch on NBC’s online strategies, Google’s mobile plans, social media, women and technology, and the increasing status of bloggers. Watch the trends so you can see the opportunities.

• All those marketing conferences and not enough time? See iPlot’s Most Important Marketing Conferences of 2008.

• Facebook is increasingly important for business, and if you’re not there, you should be. (Needless to say, you already have a vibrant presence in LinkedIn.) Check out FaceReview’s 13 Facebook 2008 Predictions.

• See John Battelle’s Search Blog for 2008 predictions in search, media and technology.

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