Posts Tagged with ‘Pleo’

Social Media Is a Hammer, But I Am Not a Nail

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

… or, Why You Don't Need a Social Network for Every Product
I have two tabs open right next to each other at the moment. Both are social networking sites for products sponsored by the companies who make the products. One is a brilliant marketing move. The other (still in invite-only beta and I'm not privileged) I haven't even seen and already know it's wrong, wrong, wrong.
Social media is the new marketing meme, and every agency, no matter how clueless they [...]

Blogtropol.us at Web 2.0 Expo: Bloggers Have Arrived

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

I have a lot of posting to catch up on after Web 2.0 Expo this week, but I'm not saving the best for last; I'm starting off my catch-up posts with my review of the Blogtropol.us Bloggers Lounge.
When I first arrived at Web 2.0 Expo, I was a little bit incensed that bloggers had their own lounge rather than admittance to the "media room." Here I was at a conference about Web 2.0 and the bloggers weren't considered media?
Forget it. [...]