This made me laugh out loud today. Thanks Alex Micu (and Nate Silver, who retweeted this along with 7,719 of his friends).
On a related note, Siri followed me on Twitter today. True. Well, actually Susan Bennett, the pipes behind the app. I wonder if she can tell me how to make Siri at all useful?
This Scoop Shop’s Secret Sauce? Social Marketing.
Founders Douglas Quint and Bryan Petroff outside of one of the locations of Big Gay Ice Cream, the quirky East Village ice cream shop. |Image: biggayicecream.com.
Great story on Mashable – with video – about Big Gay Ice Cream, the Manhattan-based ice cream truck and bricks and mortar stores of the same name and how they’ve used social media to fuel their brand.
They have found that their quirky take on tweets and Facebook posts have won over fans.
Next time you happen by, try a Salty Pimp. Or a Bea Arthur. You’ll be glad you did.
Two points if you know what musical the title’s from! (If you don’t know, I’m going to box you severely around the ears!)
I’ve taken up a new full-time job recently and it may suck me dry, though I’m hoping to have time to continue to ruminate here on a regular basis.
I’ll have time to tweet more than blog, I think, at least for the first few months while I try to wrestle the unruly beast to the ground as I create a communications plan and system for this organization out of whole cloth. So, please follow me on the Twit at @markrblackmon — there’s a link over there (points left) to make it easy.
Thanks for following, liking and commenting on the blog; I appreciate it. … Good God, it’s October. How did that happen???
Pink Called A Lesbian In Twitter Attack After Dancing With Gay Pride Flag.
“They’ve been the most loyal part of what I do,” she told the Advocate last October. “They’ve been my most loyal friends, to be honest. I’ve had a lot of my gay boys around, but my gay girls are my rootstalk. They’re my honesty in an ocean of bullshit. I should be gay by the way that I look and the way that I am. I just happen to not be. But it just makes perfect and complete sense.”
Good on ya, girlfriend!
Good grammar is the best revenge!!
H/T BuzzFeed
One Last Word 