Favorite Finds

Although the year is winding down, and many are already vacationing for the holidays, our Twitter stream was as active as ever this week. Here’s what we liked:

• Snow, no?: Here in Chicago we were in a snow drought until today… 290 days without snow!  Welcome, winter wonderland.
• Brands beware: Sometimes a well-intentioned hashtag campaign goes wrong – sorry for Starbucks, this was their week.
• Research Nerds Rejoice: The latest “State of Consumers and Technology” report is chalk full of data about how we use our devices (maybe why Nielsen is using Tweets as a TV rating metric). TechCrunch sums it up the report for us here. 
• Proliferation of Paywalls: Half of all U.S. newspapers have paywalls and 1/5 of magazines do too, now. How will that affect reader numbers moving forward?
• Kudos to our #PR colleagues: We applaud these brands that handled their PR disasters of the year with grace!