Yesterday was our Lunch 2.0 event in the our office’s sunny patio in San Francisco. We were blessed with great weather and all around awesome people that stopped by even as MacWorld was still going on.We had a boat load of Sushi, which proved so popular we ordered “emergency” shipments to keep everyone happy.Here’s the photos from event: e-Storm’s Flickr Set Steve Rhodes Flickr Set (he was nice enough to share his Lunch 2.0 photos on the web) Thank you everyone for attending and for taking the time for having lunch and talking to us. And if you wanna check out what we do, besides provide awesome sushi on a sunny rooftop, check out what services we provide as an interactive marketing agency.

And of course, one more photo of our friend Pleo (oh, and that’s JT holding him by the way. He’s a friend too):

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To kick off the new year, we are organizing a Lunch 2.0 on January 17^th.

In case you are not familiar with Lunch 2.0, here is an article in WSJ that speaks about it.

We would like to invite you to come join for a simple event where you can mingle with other smart marketers from companies, partners, vendors….And Pleo – a special guest to the event. We are honored to have a few UGOBE folks come, the folks behind Pleo.

Lunch 2.0 at e-Storm details is below:

What:
Lunch 2.0 – In the spirit of Lunch 2.0, free sushi and Japanese beers will be served at e-Storm’s offices and our balcony with views of the city. For what? Getting to know you, and announce:
1) a new monetization service - how to sell ads, more ads, monetize on your content, users, partnerships - we have helped more than 100 clients buying ads, partner with content sites - now we can help you sell to them
2) a new wiki series – what is …..?

When:
Thursday January 17^th, 2008
12:00 to 2pm (officially)….unofficially…..well you know.
Please RSVP so that we know how much food to cater - thanks!

Where:
e-Storm International
530 Bush Street, Suite 600
San Francisco, CA 94108

Who:
Our clients, partners, colleagues, companies, individuals involved in interactive marketing

Wow, we are blushing….Amanda Vega, thanks for the kudos. Kudos also goes to the UGOBE team, and SHIFT communications for working hard in ensuring that Pleo is getting the right attention, that Pleo fans are being communicated to, and that it’s launch and beyond is a success. We thank you for the kudos. OK, back to work here.

Jai Decker and Pleo attended Ad-tech in New York last week, ok so Pleo and Jai attended a few parties as well. We were honored by Josh Greene’s blog post who said that Pleo’s appearance at the show was a great viral marketing tactic, we are blushing….thanks Josh.

We were very pleased to see that OneUpWeb, an integrated marketing firm, created a report on “Secrets of Social Media Marketing - How 2007 Hot Holiday Products are Marketed Online” which identified our efforts with our partner Crimson Consulting and our client UGOBE for the promotion of Pleo online. We have spent numerous hours strategizing on the best ways to connect with Pleo fans, help them understand how Pleo is being developed and all the challenges that it has brought. We thank Lisa Wehr and her team for writing a great report on social media marketing and comparing the marketing of Pleo to that of iPod Touch, WebKinz and many leading companies.