@1day1brand top tweets for the week ending May 6, 2011. The speed of information dissemination has accelerated. Keeping up can be a breathless activity. To help keep up on how branding can help your business, Distility @1day1brand offers a recap of this week’s top @1day1brand tweets.
Branding Green
- Thinking Big – Method Home Cleans Up With Style and (Toxic-Free) Substance. http://ow.ly/4MQEV
Brand Trends
- Meet The Brand Called Wally Olins. http://ow.ly/4LXbj
- 2011 Logo Trends: “Last year was brighter. This year is lighter.” http://ow.ly/4L3Ir
This week’s Top Distility Rebranding Branding Content
- Farmville: When New Brand Categories Kill. http://ow.ly/4M1Wc
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Twitter Tips and Jargon for the uninitiated
When you only have 140 characters to work with, you need to be creative and embrace character saving short-forms. While some English twitter short-forms have found their way into tweets by Francophones, there are also excellent French language ones which are worth notice and use; some of the French abbrevations are shorter and — truth be told — simply more clever.
| English | French |
| TTYL (Talk to you later) | A+ (à plus tard) |
| Where are you? | t où? (t’es où?) |
| LOL (Laughing out loud) | mdr (mort de rire) |
| FYI (For your information) | pvi (pour votre information) |
| Why | “pk” or “pq” (pourquoi) |
| Because | pcq (parce que) |
| I love you | je tm (je t’aime) |
For a more words and phrases to use in your next gazouillis (tweet), visit the C’est La Vie program page at www.cbc.ca.