Social media agencies and divisions of companies are springing up from the ground like weeds. Spreading brand awareness through Twitter and Facebook has become so popular that many big companies are hiring creative social media managers, directors, and analysts. Living in Michigan, I can tell you that competing for jobs in social media marketing is fierce. You really have to find ways to separate yourself from everybody else. Here are some of the creative examples I have seen where someone has gone above-and-beyond to make themselves stand-out:

A couple of my freelancer friends are often looking for photo gallery WordPress themes so that got me thinking that I should put together a collection. When I searched around the Internet, I found a ton of great options. Those of you that are looking for photo gallery and portfolio designs to use on WordPress, here is a gallery of 40 themes.

The Get A Mac television advertising campaign was created for Apple by TBWA\Media Arts Lab and ran between 2006 and 2009. The ads featured a man dressed in casual clothes and introduced himself as “Mac” and a man in a more formal suit-and-tie introduced himself as “PC.” PC always seemed to be formal and polite, but would always be overly concerned with work while Mac seemed to be more laid back. The original ads starred John Hodgman and Justin Long. Ever since these commercials started airing, a number of parodies have been created. Below is a gallery of 16 Get A Mac parody videos.

Facebook is the most popular social networking website. After the company goes public, they will become one of the largest technology companies in the world. When Facebook started they were a simple startup operating out of a Harvard University dorm room. Here are some facts and statistics that you might not know about Facebook.

Currently there are over 800 million active users on Facebook. Many of the top leading brands are using Facebook as an extension of their brand to capture the voices of their customers and fans. Facebook provides developers with the flexibility to heavily customize their Fan Pages. Below are a list of creative Facebook Fan Pages that I have found. If you known of any other brands that should be included, please let us know in the comments:

Several people in my family and my wife’s family are now 30+ of age and are either pregnant or just celebrated the first birthday of their baby.  Given that my wife and I are an Apple fanboy and fangirl, we would probably deck our future children out with Apple baby accessories.  Below is a list of 6 accessories to buy for your Apple fan baby.   If you know of some other ones that we missed out on, please let us know in the comments.

The world population number has hit 7 billion recently, which means that competition over jobs is becoming extremely competitive. Every day there are hundreds of thousands of people applying for jobs and a majority of them use some sort of template. Sometimes you need a resume that stands out to get an awesome job. Below are 135 examples of creative resumes (please leave a comment if I missed any that you know of).

What I have learned is when you graduate college, it is rather difficult to make new friends because you won’t have the opportunities to meet people that have same interests in classes and organizations. It took me a little while to social media can play a prominent role in meeting and connecting with people. Personally I have met people who I normally would not have ever met before through services like Twitter, Meetup.com, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Tools like these can help us expand beyond our current circle of connections.