Every year, there are some key information technology people that make mostly sound and trustworthy predictions for the coming year.  I'll be updating this page through the week with links to these visions of what we may expect in 2009.  My own thoughts and vision for 2009 and CMS Report will come later in another post (I am not worthy to place my own comments here).

Content Management and Social Publishing Predictions

Dries Buytaert (Drupal Project Lead) - Drupal, Acquia, and Mollom

Ryan Thrash (MODx) - Evolution and Revolution

Open Source

Dave Rosenberg (Co-founder of MuleSource) - Open source as paid software

Assorted Tech Gurus - The Future of Open Source

Technology and Information Technology

Joe Zuccaro - Twitter, Blogging, Open Source CMS (Drupal), Government

Assorted Analysts - Cloud Computing, Windows 7, Collaboration, Patents

If you come across a posting regarding 2009 by an IT leader, please feel free to leave a link in the comment section below. 

"One of our main goals for Movable Type for 2007 is to make sure our community’s feedback is an even more integral part of product development. As a first step, we’re experimenting with getting your help fixing the plugin experience for Movable Type."

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"Starting two years, ago Intel CEO Paul Otellini began communicating with the team inside the company by using blogs as a direct channel to Intel’s staff around the world. When the blogs were first publicly discussed, the idea of such a prominent technology executive participating in a private internal..."

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"When we started offering professional support and paid licenses for Movable Type over two years ago, the idea of business blogging itself wasn't obvious. And the need for a reliable blogging vendor that a company could trust as a partner..."

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"Unlike business blog, people do not create a niche blog to support an existing business. It also serves different purposes as a common business blog. You can see a niche blog everywhere on the Internet. Chances are if you search on search engines, one of the results on the first page will possibly be a niche blog. It covers anything from photography, celebrity, scrapbooking, building construction, personal development, and so on."

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It's Okay To Screw Up! A Case Study -

"Okay, so we’ve been saying over and over that lots of companies are afraid of blogging, but they don’t need to be: It’s safe to get started! But we should talk a little bit about why they’re afraid. The truth..."

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