All sorts of 2009 predictions have been popping up on blog posts (and in magazines and mainstream media sites, too) these past few weeks.  I’m guessing you’ve read at least one or two of them? (If not, check out the crystall-ball gazing submissions that Peter Kim compiled.)

But until about an hour ago, I hadn’t read a single entry from anyone assessing his or her forecast for 2008.

Enter Forrester Research analysts Jeremiah Owyang and Josh Bernoff (disclosure: my employer, LiveWorld, is a Forrester client), who actually play the roles of professors and grade each of the 7 predictions they had made for last year.

Really, I applaud Forrester for owning up publicly on where it seemingly missed the boat (the team was right on, though, on several fronts, including the expectation of the growth of the community manager position [something I hope continues throughout 2009]).

Now, who else is willing to follow suit?

Update on Jan. 6: Kami Huyse noted in the comment stream to this post that she annually reviews her predictions, publicly, from the previous year. And following in Forrester’s footsteps, she’s just published her 2008 Predictions Grade Card.

For the record, I made no pronouncements on my blog for what would happen in 2008, so I escape having to put my own words under a Forrester-type microscope!

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