As a student lucky enough to have a social media course offering, no internship could introduce the incredible variety of types of social media and how to best take advantage of each and in combination with each other to further your organizational goals. Everything from social networking to audio and video-casting to social bookmarking counts as social media.

Obviously some of these commercials were serious weak sauce, but think of it this way: they were bad enough for people to start talking about. I foresee this BlackFriday/CyberMonday event prompting TV commercials from advertisers on the scale of Super Bowl Sunday. The operative part of this advertising event is that commercials get posted to YouTube where curious viewers watch online for free, repeatedly and endlessly.