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We’re off enjoying Labor Day & hope you are too!
Later this week, join All Terrain & friends at the Gap 1969 + Feed USA Launch Party!
Please RSVP to gapfeedchi@gmail.com.
See you there!
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The Ultimate Guide to Viral Videos
What does it take for a video to go viral? Contrary to popular belief, it can’t be forced.
Some of the most popular “viral” videos online were never meant to see the light of day (or their 38 million plus viewers on YouTube) … Numa Numa guy, anyone?
Others, thinly veiled by advertisers, go viral and pay off (hellooooo, Levi’s hipsters - definitely worth the watch!).
Another group go viral before backfiring completely. Take Mrs-O.org - a blog dedicated to following the First Lady’s wardrobe choices, campaign to White House - which was outed as being run by a magazine and backfired completely.
It’s a dangerous world out there for marketers and our “viral” videos!
Click on the video categories above to view what The Social Times sees as the Ultimate Guide to viral videos!
![It’s Chicago Magazine’s 40th anniversary and all year they’ve served up some fantastic “top 40’ lists of things that are unabashedly Chicago. If you are a fan of art, and by that I mean everything from music to comedy to design to architecture, then you will love Cassie Walker’s “Chicago’s Top 40 Artistic Breakthroughs” that is in the September issue of the magazine. I loved this article because it doesn’t talk about “things” but breakthroughs offered up by Chicagoans that changed the way our entire world looks at something. [Read Online Here]
So do you agree with Cassie’s top 5?
#5 – Grant Wood’s American Gothic for portrayal of Midwestern life and regionalism style.
#4 – Frank Lloyd Wright’s discovery of Japanese art and architecture at the 1893 Columbian World’s Exposition, lending to much of his Prairie style.
#3 – Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett’s Plan of Chicago, which became a model for city planning.
#2 – Architect Ludwig Mies van der Roe’s design of the Illinois Institute of Technology campus, thus bringing a second golden age for Chicago Architecture.
And #1 – The happy musical marriage of Leonard Chess, a white Polish immigrant, and Muddy Waters, a black truck driver, leading to the growth of Chess Records, infusing American music with electric blues and R&B and changing the world’s musical landscape forever.
Be proud to be a Chicagoan. Read Online Here](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l82r1vI7gp1qzb1hjo1_500.jpg)
It’s Chicago Magazine’s 40th anniversary and all year they’ve served up some fantastic “top 40’ lists of things that are unabashedly Chicago. If you are a fan of art, and by that I mean everything from music to comedy to design to architecture, then you will love Cassie Walker’s “Chicago’s Top 40 Artistic Breakthroughs” that is in the September issue of the magazine. I loved this article because it doesn’t talk about “things” but breakthroughs offered up by Chicagoans that changed the way our entire world looks at something. [Read Online Here]
So do you agree with Cassie’s top 5?
#5 – Grant Wood’s American Gothic for portrayal of Midwestern life and regionalism style.
#4 – Frank Lloyd Wright’s discovery of Japanese art and architecture at the 1893 Columbian World’s Exposition, lending to much of his Prairie style.
#3 – Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett’s Plan of Chicago, which became a model for city planning.
#2 – Architect Ludwig Mies van der Roe’s design of the Illinois Institute of Technology campus, thus bringing a second golden age for Chicago Architecture.
And #1 – The happy musical marriage of Leonard Chess, a white Polish immigrant, and Muddy Waters, a black truck driver, leading to the growth of Chess Records, infusing American music with electric blues and R&B and changing the world’s musical landscape forever.
Be proud to be a Chicagoan. Read Online Here
(via courtneyc)
Happy 9/02/10 Day!
This Labor Day weekend, Expo Dry Erase Markers hopes to donate 22,000 markers
Expo Dry Erase Markers and Driver TJ Zizzo Team Up to Support Kids in Need Foundation and Teachers Treasures Charities This Labor Day weekend as many of us are enjoying one of the last great BBQ weekends of the season, driver TJ Zizzo, with the help of Expo Dry Erase Markers, will be winning rounds to rack up thousands of supplies to support Teachers Treasure, a local Kids in Need Foundation affiliate. Expo® Dry Erase Markers, an associate sponsor of driver TJ Zizzo, is committed to donate 1000 feet of markers (the length of every race) for every round won by Zizzo, including qualifying rounds, to Teachers Treasure, a local Kids in Need Foundation affiliate. “With a possible nine rounds to win, I hope to donate 22,000 markers” said Zizzo. ”It’s nice to be able to give back to teachers who spend a lot of money out of their own pocket each year on school supplies.” Zizzo will also be available at the Zizzo pit area to sign autographs for fans. Once fans get their autograph they’ll be invited to sign and drawn on a side panel of Zizzo’s dragster with Expo Dry Erase markers. Fans may even get to see their name on the racetrack and on ESPN 2 as Zizzo speeds by. After every pass, an Expo marker eraser will be used to clean the panel, allowing more kids to sign. The Mac Tools US Nationals takes place over Labor Day weekend, Sept. 3-6, in Indianapolis.
