We’re back with our weekly recap of the interesting and inspiring, with a particular eye for what shifts and ideas brands should be tracking, evaluating and acting on. This is a collection of some standout business strategy, brand-building and digital media stories catching our attention.

Discussions Shaping Strategy, Creativity & Innovation 

• Why Great Ideas Get Rejected (and how to address the fear that roots resistance)
• Nick Gill, BBH: 10 Things I’ve Learned That Might Help (advice to anyone in the always-evolving creating, advertising and marketing fields)
• (Traditional) Marketing Is Dead
• Three Commonly Missed Benefits of Lean & Agile (moving as a team, understanding customers + informed strategic decisions)
• Brand New: Emerging Market Companies Are Trying to Build Global Brands
• For a Real Revolution, Occupy Madison Avenue (on demands for transparency in business practice, quality and ethical change from brands)
• 3 Golden Rules of Successful Storytelling in the Social Era
• The Rules of Social Media
• Why McKinsey Values Social Economy at $1.3 Trillion
• Don’t Ignore Boomers: The Most Valuable Generation
• The Art of Staying Up to Date
• You Are (Probably) Wrong About You (on self-perception)

Notable Ideas: New Products, Platforms and Projects 

• Wikipedia Redefined
• Exp.lore.com
• Instacart Wants to be Amazon with One-Hour Delivery
• The Next Internet? Inside PARC’s Vision of Content Centric Networking
• One Race, Every Medalist Ever (NYT video + data visualization)
• Beck ‘Produces’ A Genius Innovation (releasing a new album through sheet music)
• tshirtOS: The World’s First Programmable T-Shirt
• 44 Female Founders Every Entrepreneur Should Know
• Sportsmanias.com (local sports news, feed)

Brands, Companies and Entities of Note (some more obvious than others)n 

• Think with Google: Agile Creativity
• Evian’s Wood Racquet Cup
• New York Magazine Uses Responsive Design to Relaunch The Cut
• The New Yorker Lands on iPhone, with Lena Dunham and Jon Hamm
• Why Starbucks Is Betting On Square
• The 12 Most Valuable Startups
• Apple Pulls Genius Boy Wonder Ads Off-Air

Digital & Social Media News and Resources

• NBC Bows to Pressure, Streams Closing Ceremony
• 50 Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory
• 77 Cents Of Every Dollar in Mobile Went to Apple in Q2
• How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to An Epic Hacking (the dangers of the cloud)
• Luxury Brands Are Going Where the Rich Kids Are: Instagram
• How HTML5 Will Take Over Mobile Apps
• Apps Developers Want Viewers to Recommend TV Shows to Friends
• Microsoft’s Workplace Social Network Becomes Emotionally Aware
• Tumblr Launches Reblorg, A Curated Site with Eccentric Content