Hello folks, I hope you enjoyed your week that started off with Valentine’s Day and Mardi Gras. Here is your Friday 5.

1. This year brought another successful Mardi Gras celebration to St. Louis.  Following the Soulard celebrations over the weekend, the Lumière Place Light up the Night Fat Tuesday Parade brought some 26 krewes out to parade downtown with the theme “famous couples.”
2. We learned yet again how social media allows one person and one incident to quickly impact the image of a company with @TheKevinSmith and @SouthwestAir.
3. In light of the FTC’s new guides concerning endorsements and testimonials, WOMMA issued its Social Media Marketing Disclosure Guide.  The report offers ethical practices your company can utilize to stay compliant with the FTC and to maintain good social media engagement etiquette.  Still not sure about the FTC guides? Check out Shelley’s blog post from earlier this week.
4. TVG’s own, Cassie McCloud started to prepare this week for her presentation at the St. Louis IABC March seminar. Join us on March 25^th for her discussion on engaging employees in the web 2.0 world.  She’ll be joined by HOK, Hallmark, Webster University and many others!
5. Lastly, St. Louis saw a hint of spring this week with some sunny weather and temps moving into the 40s!  TVG’s Amy Crump took the occasion to start some early spring cleaning around the office.

Let’s hope the nice weather lasts so we can all enjoy our weekend!