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The entire Carrot Crew had a great time at the Mash Meet Up last night and would like to thank Simeon from Utterz and Adam from Mashable for holding such a great Web 2.0 event. We met a lot of insightful, energetic folks in the Web 2.0 world that we are now happy to call friends and supporters of Carrot Creative.

We would just like to remind anyone interested in Social Media, Web 2.0, Social Networking Sites, or the Future of Social Media to attend the MashMeet in NYC this Tuesday, Dec 18, from 7-9 pm at the Village Pourhouse (64 Third Ave). Several members of the Carrot Crew attended last month’s MashMeet and had such a great time that Robert, Kyle, Steve, Christian, Jason, Mike and I will all be in attendance tomorrow. Hope to see everyone there.

Today I will be part of a speaking panel at Web Community Forum. The panel will comprised of Teresa Valdez Klein and Dave McClure, and we will be discussing Facebook as a professional tool. Notes will be provided later on in the week, as it will be a collaborative effort of the entire Carrot Crew to summarize the events of this week’s forum for all of you.

Facebook for Professionals: A Session for the Community Building in the Age of Facebook Conference.
December 5, 2007 • 11:30 am
Presented by Mike Germano, Dave McClure, Teresa Valdez Klein

Jason and I will be out in Seattle this week to meet with clients and attend the Web Community Forum. We are both looking forward to speaking engagements at the Forum as well as getting to know the Seattle Tech Culture. We both feel honored to be in the land of Microsoft and Starbucks. (Although Starbucks is becoming ever more important to the Tech scene and Carrot Crew than Microsoft). If you happen to be attending the Forum, shoot me an email. By the way, does anyone know of some great places to eat in Seattle?

Everyone at Carrot would like to thank Rock You’s VP Ro Choy for taking time out of his busy schedule and meeting with us for drinks last night. With a Sierra Nevada in one hand and using the other to describe viral enginnering it was a nice way to discuss something we are passionate about with someone who is managing the team that is paving the way for social applications and community development. We at Carrot plan on using Rock You’s Ad Platform on our next application comming out January 1st called … like I’m really going to tell you right now. Stay tuned!

Carrot Creative is proud to announce the release of Dank App’s BE SANTA. This Facebook application allows you and your friends to Be Santa and spread the joy of the Holiday season to Facebook walls near and far. Be Santa users can send virtual and real gifts from Amazon.com as well as write Christmas wish lists. Gifts stay wrapped until December 25th, when users open the gift and are entered into giveaways rewarding $2,500 in real gifts to lucky virtual gift recipients and letter writers. Every gift given and letter written is give you a better chance at free gifts– now that will brighten anyone’s Yuletide.

I would like to thank the folks at Mashable and our good friends at PMBuzz.com for hosting the first Mash Meet Up in NYC. The event was a great networking opportunity for all us Web 2.0 nerds, I mean professionals, and I would encourage anyone, be it a newcomer or season veteran in the Web 2.0 world, to attend a Mash Meet Up in the nearest coordinating city. The Mash Meet Up was the perfect cap to my week of conferences, and was the most beneficial of all the events this week.

 

This week, I attended AD:Tech 2007 in New York City. I, along with the rest of the Carrot Crew, was interested to see how the advertising and marketing industries are responding to the emergence and progression of Web 2.0 tools. And although I was unable to attend the entire week’s worth of events, my overall impression of the conference is that the advertising and marketing industries still do not “get it” when it comes to Social Media.