Simon Sinek's brilliant TED Talk on brands and people who inspire - http://bit.ly/dcDsbx
Audi, E-Trade, Budweiser, Teleflora, and Volkswagen are all centering their 2011 Super Bowl campaigns around social media. - Ad Age
The Girl Store (by Strawberry Frog) makes a powerful statement on behalf of Nanhi Kali, a project that provides primary education for underprivileged female children – www.the-girl-store.org
Intel's first mini web-movie, "Chase," has made it to the top of the viral video charts online. - Intel Newsroom
ABC is turning the Oscars into its own social network with interactive maps, behind-the-scenes video footage, user voting and sharing, and a live Twitter feed of the nominees' tweets during the show. - Fast Company
USA TODAY's Social Media Editor, Michelle Kessler, shares how social media is impacting gathering and reporting in the newsroom. - SocialMediaToday
Lipton's SXSW promotion is encouraging fans to tweet their Instagram self-portraits with hashtag #briskpic for a chance to be featured on the new Brisk cans. - CNET News
Sweden's North Kingdom’s marriage of creativity and technology – KarmaTech demonstrates what’s possible when you embed RFID tags in shoes - http://vimeo.com/19192547
Red Bull's BlueCasting Mobile Coupons Promotion at Point-of-Sale (by Toronto's iSign) – http://bit.ly/gFxGlJ
Procter & Gamble is bringing back their Old Spice Man campaign and giving one "superfan" the opportunity to debut an ad on his or her own social networking profile before it airs on TV. - ClickZ
Dagens Industri (Newspaper) - Making the point that Social Media Activities Need to Reinforce the Brands Attributes - http://youtu.be/UNKLGEQJV8M
Netflix is integrating Facebook to allow for split household accounts. This will let individual users share their personal viewing history and recommend videos to friends online. - All Things Digital
The UN’s ‘Voices’ Campaign lets you take a photo of the person's mouth on the print piece, text it to the number using your mobile and hear their story - http://vimeo.com/1854851
This Orange - France Télécom Twitter promotion (by POKE London) stopped by users homes to hand out hot chocolate and scarves - http://youtu.be/L5fUdvQMnFM
TurboTax is taking over NBC commercials during tax season with the airing of their new microseries, "All-Star Celebrity Treasure Hunt." The show-within-a-show will encourage viewers to play along online to win cash and other prizes. - The New York Times
Bud Light's ‘Unlock the Spot’ campaign invites Facebook fans to guess what its Super Bowl ads will be about (based on a static image). If the plots are correctly identified, Bud will "unlock" a new commercial - http://bit.ly/hebOGi
IBM is releasing their new Social Business Toolkit that will help guide the process of incorporating social elements into their products and solutions. - CMS Wire
Europcar's clever ‘Crush Hour' Campaign (France) – crushes peoples cars into cubes and captures the surprise – http://youtu.be/M_lIpsgiRHQ
Yahoo! 3D Gesture Control Installation - The brief to Tronic / Brandfirst made note there was to be no instructions or screen prompts, as they wanted people to experience the response patterns by accident - http://youtu.be/2X7ef8MMBZA
The Australian Open's iPad App by Ogilvy (Sydney) is a great example of branded utility - http://youtu.be/5OPyarlt7lc
KIA amplified their new Optima launch and sponsorship of the Australian Open using an Augmented Reality (AR) Mobile App. Any time users captured the KIA logo (tied also to event print materials) it activated an interactive 3D experience featuring the Optima - http://youtu.be/tTyXG4TBLiE
The Pepsi Refresh Project (aka the best Social Media Campaign ever) has received over 150,000 idea submissions, 76 million votes, 17 million unique visitors, 1.6 million comments and more then 3 million Facebook "likes" - all in the first year - http://bit.ly/gMrWu2
Alex Bogusky's 'Fearless Revolution' and Reforming Capitalism - http://bit.ly/fYfehl
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