The women of LinkedIn's Connect: Professional Women's Network share their predictions for what will change the world next year. For more big ideas, check out www.linkedin.com/today/se/bigideas. To learn more about the Connect group, visit www.linkedin.com/womenconnect.

1. Where Women Want 2013 to Take Us
The women of Connect: Professional Women’s Network share
their predictions for what will change the world next year.
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2. Everyone worldwide accepts global warming as a reality and gets
together to work together for the betterment of our world!
Nancy Ploeger
President, Manhattan
Chamber of Commerce
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3. I'm really hoping that the big thing next year is face to face
communication. To quote a friend, it is the new social media.
Sherry Alexis
Owner, Fixed
Impressions
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4. The addition of virtual education programs will enable school
systems to address student needs more efficiently and effectively.
Trained professionals are sometimes unavailable and are costly, so
Mary Anne Hipp this has created a limitation to preparation for future careers.
Educational Consultant
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5. Women-owned businesses will reach unexpected heights. Women
in leadership will also reach unprecedented heights. Educated
women will far outweigh men.
Brenda S.
Owner, Gift Basket
Villas
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6. The most exciting thing that may happen is the passage of HR25, The
Fair Tax Bill. This will change our entire tax structure by eliminating
the IRS and imposing a new consumption tax, (about 23%), based not
Donna Tidwell on what we earn but what we spend at the retail level.
Owner, Home Realty
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7. I want this to be the year that employers look at what someone can
contribute without trying to box them into exactly 40 hours. For many
families or couples, having two spouses working 40+ hours per
Wendy Huffman week is a strain.
Director of Email
Marketing
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8. As businesses vie for consumer dollars, the paradigm shift will be
customer satisfaction. Given our communication
capabilities, businesses who are not prepared to meet what they
Priscilla Miller profess will suffer the consequences.
Administrative
Professional
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9. People will begin to live their dreams like never before, follow their
bliss and integrate it with their work, their personal lives, their
communities. The companies they work for will love it because they
Julianna Dawson too will benefit and make more money as a result.
Author, Speaker
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10. Because a high percentage of the population is getting older (and
wiser), communities will be different, more self-sufficient, more like
villages or small towns.
Brenda S.
Owner, Gift Basket
Villas
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11. Join the conversation!
Connect: Professional Women’s Network, Powered by Citi, is an
online community on LinkedIn that helps women achieve the
careers they want and discuss the issues relevant to their success.
For more great insights from Connect members, check out
the discussion: What One Big Idea is Going to Change
the World Next Year? You can also read more big ideas
from LinkedIn’s influencers here.
Visit linkedin.com/womenconnect for more information
and to join the Connect group!
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