Here is your friday platypus.
What happened this week? Brett Favre returned to the NFL, and, surprisingly, on the same day, Brett Farve was a trending topic on Twitter. Entertainment Weekly went back to the future on us and put a video in a magazine (yup, you read that right). And Usain Bolt proved (again) that he can run really, really fast.
- “Surprise – Disrespecting Competitors Doesn’t Work!” by Danny Brown – What do you do when you have some healthy competition in your product category? Go here to find out!
- “Fear and Loathing in Social Media: The 10 Rules of corporate denial and blatant overreaction” by Olivier Blanchard – A very funny list of things you should shouldn’t do in social media if you’re a business.
- “The Gap Steps Up to Social Media in New Denim Campaign” by Douglas Quenqua – interesting look at how The Gap is going digital in their new marketing campaign, trading in all of their commercials for a Facebook Fan Page and social media.
- “Talk Like We Do” by Amber Naslund – This post goes with the quote “if normal people talked to you like advertisements do, you’d punch them in the face.” Word.
- “Still Working Nine to Five? Why?” by Darryl Ohrt – I wonder how many people e-mailed this to their bosses (or wanted to). Imagine a place where you could choose when you worked. Nope, not talking about heaven, just a workplace with a flex schedule. Sure, not a new concept, but it still sounds magnificent!
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