Golden Grahams cereal is soliciting ridiculous job-search stories for a contest. Weekly drawings will eventually result in 75 winners getting a dozen boxes of Golden Grahams cereal each.
Given that entrants must tell their “stories” in even fewer characters (122) than they could on Twitter (140), I question the narrative quality. As Antoinette Coleman, marketing manager for Golden Grahams, explains in an interview on SmartBlog on Social Media
, the 122-character limit is of course so entrants can tweet and share their stories virally. The funniest stories, however, will be animated and published on the site.
You can see at right the one that made me laugh out loud.