Now that I have a blog it will be much easier to see if any of these come through. Happy New Year everyone.
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9) Barack Obama will continue to innovate government communications with integrated branding and new media ideas, but will fail to appoint me to his cabinet as Secretary of Branding after several of my repeated requests.
8) Sometime after Spring Break '09, the brand managers at Pepsi will stop mixing whiskey in their drinks and realize what they've done to their identity. It's going to be a hell of a hangover.
7) wii and twitter form a partnership titled twiittiiwt.
6) Blagojevich will declare Illinois' independence from the union.
5) Brand managers will finally recognize the print campaign they developed in '08 didn't shift their customers beliefs.
4) The Blackhawks event at Wrigley will be the largest single sporting event uploaded to flickr in '09.
3) Ideas will become bigger as teams get smaller.
2) I will tweet early and often.
1) Google will evolve their brand identity.