{"id":819,"date":"2010-12-30T11:13:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T19:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=819"},"modified":"2011-02-08T11:16:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T19:16:39","slug":"skona-advertising-takes-white-elephants-virtual-this-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/skona-advertising-takes-white-elephants-virtual-this-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Skona Advertising Takes White Elephants Virtual This Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #464646} span.s1 {color: #6099e9} --><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/90_03_36-Christmas-Decorations_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-820\" title=\"90_03_36---Christmas-Decorations_web\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/90_03_36-Christmas-Decorations_web-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/90_03_36-Christmas-Decorations_web-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/90_03_36-Christmas-Decorations_web-342x227.jpg 342w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/90_03_36-Christmas-Decorations_web.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22, 2010 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; San Francisco-based ad firm, Skona Advertising, Inc. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skona.com\/\">www.skona.com<\/a>), has launched a holiday microsite, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skona.com\/xmas\">www.skona.com\/xmas<\/a>, inviting last-minute shoppers and eco-sensitive gifters to bestow one-of-kind presents to friends, family and anyone else who might relish a Shakespeare Tissue Box Cover or Cat Butt Pencil Sharpener.<\/p>\n<p>The boutique agency, which packs a creative punch, has created a gallery featuring sundry virtual white elephants; users can browse through a dozen quirky presents, make their selections, and email the perfect gift to anyone in their address book \u2013 without plastic or packaging, gift receipts or exorbitant overnight shipping expenses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thought it might be fun to virtualize the concept of the white elephant,&#8221; said Scott Springer, Creative Director, Skona Advertising. &#8220;When you receive a horrible gift, you&#8217;re stuck trying to figure out where to stash it or how to re-gift it. The site is a goofy way to give terrible presents without all of the fuss or waste.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The site also eliminates the taboo of re-gifting. Users can give and re-give the same white elephants to indulge the spirit of generosity this holiday season. Aunt Barbara will clamor for Skona&#8217;s Merman Ornament \u2013 a mythical, seductive little man who&#8217;s taken many turns beneath the mistletoe \u2013 and knows her co-worker Franny will covet the shirtless merman, too.<\/p>\n<p>Launched early last week, Skona&#8217;s gallery is now making the rounds among colleagues, friends and family eager to share the soft and fuzzy 3D Teddy Bear Sweater or the Circular Saw Blade, which features hand-painted elk frolicking in the forest. The site is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skona.com\/xmas\">www.skona.com\/xmas<\/a> or Facebook keyword &#8220;white elephant.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22, 2010 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; San Francisco-based ad firm, Skona Advertising, Inc. (www.skona.com), has launched a holiday microsite, www.skona.com\/xmas, inviting last-minute shoppers and eco-sensitive gifters to bestow one-of-kind presents to friends, family and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[413,411,412],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-featured-news","tag-holiday-news","tag-skona-advertising","tag-white-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}