Here is a look at some standout brand-building and communications stories that caught our attention this week.

Ideas Shaping Strategy, Creativity & Innovation

• The Sharing Economy
• Mark Zuckerberg Explains His Law of Social Sharing
• Facebook and Its Double Standard On Sharing
• How to Make Systems Thinking Sexy
• If You Want to Succeed, You’ve Got To Assume No One Cares (on the realities of brand ‘advocacy’)
• Unlocking Viral Secrets on Facebook: MIT Study
• Is Your Mobile Strategy In Motion?
• Ken Robinson on the Secrets of Creative Leadership
• Innovators’ DNA
• The Pursuit of Happiness Gets More Difficult
• Agencies as Incubators
• When Women Continue to be Edited Out
• 10 Commonly Misunderstood Words
• Infographics Are Useful – But They Must Evolve

Innovative, Inspiring Ideas: New Products, Projects & Brand Work

• The World of Seven Billion: Where And How We Live (National Geographic Interactive Map)
• Visualizations of the Most Defining Moments in US History
• Percolate: The Microblogging Platform Where Twitter and Tumblr Go to Hang Out
• People Staring at Computers
• Spotify is Coming to the US
• Prizes: Solve Problems. Win Contests. Make Money.
• Lifepath (an app that maps out your life)
• Gif Shop
• Can You Crowdsource Health Information Via Twitter?
• Facebook Video Calling
• Wheel of Concept
• Design & Thinking, the Documentary
• 16 Ways to Play with Instragram
• The iPhone SLR Mount

Digital Media, Tech & Marketing News & Resources

• News of the World to Close
• The Business Impact of Social Media
• Obama’s Twitter Town Hall
• Infographic: Who Is Using Twitter, How Often, and Why?
• Google+: In Praise of Starting Over
• Zuckerberg Finds Fans on Google+
• 5 Things the Skype Deal Teaches Us About Facebook
• iOS App Store Hits 15Billion Downloads
• Europe’s Social Media Hotspots: Where Networking Works
• eBay Buys Zong to Boost PayPal’s Mobile Payments Technology
• Usability Lessons from a First Time Computer User
• It’s Official: Teens Prefer Texting to Talking