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We’re excited here at Carrot Creative. 2009 has some big things coming up for us. (Stay tuned for them, of course we’ll let you know!)

To help get us in gear, I’ve asked the entire team to disclose their resolutions for the upcoming year.

Without further adieu…

Robert Gaafar, CEO

• Participate more in the NYC tech community, online and offline
• Get rid of the 10 foot pile of papers on my desk
• Establish a buzzword-free office. If anyone mentions a buzzword, they have to drop down and do 10 pushups. I’m not kidding.

Smashing Magazine compiled a list of this years top web designers and offered an insightful glance into their design process and all the sites they found influential in 2008. We’re thrilled that our very own website was chosen by Alen Grakalic of CSSGlobe and Templatica fame as one of his favorite sites of the year.  

Check out the whole article for some year-end eye candy.

UPDATE We’ve been also featured as BuildInternet.com’s top site for jQuery navigation in 2008! Thanks for the heads-up Zach.

Today at Carrot Creative, there is a new face amongst the desks in DUMBO. Me!

As communications and public relations campaigns continue to mix and social media becomes a more common focus of the overall communications strategy, it’s important for growing agencies to take this into consideration and work together across all of these areas.

So, here I am. I will be the new Director of Communications here at Carrot spearheading the external communications for the company as well as providing insight to communications strategy on all of the amazing campaigns Carrot is currently working on with their clients and partners. If you’re interested, more information about my professional experience can be found on my LinkedIn page, but in the spirit of communicating, feel free to leave a comment and say hi. Or, follow me on Twitter.

On November 4th we built and launched one of the most successful fanpages on Facebook: Yes We Did. Now that we’re closing in on 81,000 users we thought we’d give an update on our vision for the page.

We are in the process of authoring a comprehensive article about our experience bulding the page and the reaction that you, the fans, have had to it. As part of our article we will be conducting a survey of our users to find out how social media played an important role in this year’s historic election.

Last night I had the privilege of being a panel member for the Social Media and Presidential Elections Conference at the Samsung Experience on Columbus Circle. I wanted to thank the organizers: NY:MIEG, E.Factor and CBSAC/NY for putting on a smart and engaging affair. I liked seeing how all the different panel members were using social media to influence and inform everyday people about important political issues.

Ellis Henican did a great job moderating the event, everything flowed smoothly and the packed audience was interested from start to finish. It was interesting to see how the folks at 23/6 are using humor to offer an alternative view on the political scene.

There are less than three weeks to go before the most influential Presidential election of our time, which is the perfect opportunity to reflect on how social media can be used to influence an election. I will be speaking at the Social Media and Presidential Elections Conference at the Samsung Experience at Columbus Circle on Thursday, October, 30th at 6:30PM with a panel of some of the greatest minds in the business.

These experts include:

Sarah Bernard, President of 23/6, a political satire site created at the Huffington Post and now part of IAC (Barry Diller) offering insight into current events, from politics to pop culture.

We’re thrilled to announce that one of our clients, Teach The People, was selected for the next round of the fbFund! Teach The People was also a TechCrunch40 finalist and is poised to take home the gold in December.

Read more at The Social Times’ allfacebook.