• Brands turn to Twitter after Super Bowl power outage
  Brands quickly took to Twitter to riff on the Super Bowl's prolonged power outage. Bud Light and Speed Stick looked to promoted tweets linked to the words "power outage"; Oreo and Tide posted graphics linked to the issue; and Audi tweeted an offer to send some LEDs to the Superdome, which it noted was sponsored by fellow luxury auto brand Mercedes-Benz. Advertising Age (tiered subscription model) (2/3)      

• Meet the team behind Oreo's "dunk in the dark" Twitter ad
  BuzzFeed (2/3)      

• Brands get another way to target Facebook users
  Facebook is testing Suggested Page ad units that let companies advertise in the news feed of people who haven't "liked" their brand. The minimalist units are "among the least social units Facebook has on offer," and likely reflect an effort by Facebook to encourage more advertisers to buy news feed space, Tim Peterson writes. Adweek (2/1)      

• Other News

• Facebook adds a news-discovery feature
  TechCrunch (2/2)      

• Pepsi pokes at "Coke Chase" in video; Coca-Cola responds
  Pepsi looked to knock down Coca-Cola's "Coke Chase" commercial aired during the Super Bowl by releasing a video hours before the game featuring actors supposedly in the Coke spot trying to extract a Pepsi Next from a broken vending machine. Coke quickly issued a response video, mentioning that "imitation is the most sincere form of flattery." Adweek/AdFreak blog (2/3)      

• Pinterest comes with a learning curve for merchants
  Pinterest users have liked, pinned or otherwise referenced the fashion brand H&M 145,000 times in the past month, but many of the pins link to styles that are no longer available from the retailer. It's a common issue for retailers using the image-driven social site, Curalate CEO Apu Gupta says. Adweek (2/4)      

• Why social brands have a customer-service edge
  Social media can help brands provide stellar customer service by boosting transparency and giving a more human and immediate response to customers' problems, IBM's Stefan Pfeiffer writes. "In the age of social business, a good customer experience is personal, personalized, comprehensive, sustainable and transparent," Pfeiffer writes. SmartBrief/SmartBlog on Social Media (2/4)      

• Building a companywide B2B social media team
  Marketing, sales and some customer-facing employees should all be involved in business-to-business social media efforts, Bob Apollo writes. Sales, in particular, should realize the value of Nimble and other programs that integrate customer-relationship management with social data. Broad involvement in social media requires unifying the participants' presence as positive and professional for sharing and teaching, not selling. Use clear guidelines to encourage employee creativity without stifling them with a top-down approach, Apollo advises. Inflexion-Point.com (U.K.) (2/1)      

• Remains are identified as 15th-century English king
  Skeletal remains found under a parking lot in England have been proven "beyond reasonable doubt" as being King Richard III, who died in battle in 1485 and was later depicted in a Shakespeare play. Lead archaeologist Richard Buckley said the bones were "indeed Richard III, the last Plantagenet king of England." DNA samples connected the remains to the monarch's descendants, and wounds found on the skull are consistent with battle accounts. The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (2/4)      

Top five news stories selected by SmartBrief on Social Media readers in the past week.

• Facebook marketing pays off, Reckitt Benckiser exec says (Advertising Age (tiered subscription model))

• How a Russian family lived in isolation for decades (SmithsonianMag.com)

• How Facebook Cards could shake up online shopping, advertising (Adweek)

• Facebook's Graph Search focuses on natural language (The New York Times (tiered subscription model))

• Meet Avocado, a social network for pairs (GigaOm)

• Results based on number of times each story was clicked by readers.

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