It’s my Carrotversary! As a Producer, I have this thing where I’m really focused on deadlines and what everyone needs to contribute by a certain time in order to get things done and, oops, it’s a year later and I still haven’t written my Welcome post! Luckily, I’ve been given the opportunity to talk about how excited I am to join a company a year after I’ve already become deeply rooted with my second family. In all honesty, I did… Continue Reading
January 10, 2012
December 21, 2011
Family First
Did you say breakfast? It’s ok if you did, although the answer I was looking for was family. Back when I was still interviewing, I remember Chris telling me that most Carrots were not from New York City and thus, did not have any family members here. That is why, he said, it is important that Carrot Creative is a family. Since starting here, I have never doubted the absolute truth of this statement. My fellow Carrots quickly became my… Continue Reading
December 20, 2011
Pirate Astronauts
Lee joins the Carrot family as our newest developer. Welcome him to the family with some Twitter love: @the_gastropod We work in a world heavy with management, red tape, legal mumbo-jumbo, and an overall disdain for fun things. This landscape is perhaps the most rugged in the lands of technology companies. Carrot has abandoned this world. They’ve taken to space as a crew of self-proclaimed pirate astronauts. This is what I found most appealing about the prospect of working at… Continue Reading
December 9, 2011
Spread the joy with Instacheer!
The Carrot crew thought long and hard about what to do for the agency holiday card this year, and after many late nights of apple cider and holiday cookies it dawned on us — Instagram! We’re an agency full of frenzied Instagram users, so why not incorporate one of our favorite photo-taking-social-networks into our annual holiday card? And thus, Instacheer was born! Carrot designed and developed a website that pulls in holiday themed Instagram photos that fall in snowflakes over… Continue Reading
December 7, 2011
Facebook is Watching You
Facebook’s ubiquitous like button has worked it’s way onto almost every blog and news outlet, and many other sites that encourage their readers to share content via social media. It’s iconic ‘thumbs up’ graphic and the simplicity and ease of use have made the like button a huge success. A study by Bright Edge research shows that 25% of the top 1000 websites include a plugin from Facebook (the most popular being the like button), and that there have been… Continue Reading
December 5, 2011
All Carrot Everything
Sean joins us as a Community Manager. Welcome him to the family with a friendly tweet: @caniba At the risk of putting myself in an awkward situation if the singularity goes down and there’s ever a robot uprising, I’d like to go on record saying that I’m a passionate believer that technology should be used to better serve humanity and to positively affect the human experience. Whether it’s Facebook lending a hand in the overthrowing of a repressive regime or… Continue Reading
November 30, 2011
The End of Movember
Well, the time has come. It’s been a long month of creepy moustaches here at the Carrot office and we’re strangely sad to see it end. To celebrate Movember we gathered the guys for one last shot and included a few enthusiastic Carrot girls as well. Big thanks to Bear Witness Pictures for helping with these photos! And please remember to donate to the cause. Today is your last day! A huge thanks to everyone who has supported… Continue Reading
November 30, 2011
Making Moves
Kathryn joins us as a QA Analyst. Welcome her to the family with a friendly tweet: @kathrynfarwell I’ll let you in on a little secret: finding a job isn’t easy. Okay, so that’s not really a secret. But finding a job you really, really enjoy, especially right out of college, is difficult. I graduated in May with no job lined up, and while it was a little stressful, it didn’t really bother me. Sure it confused my friends and family who… Continue Reading
November 28, 2011
Solid Strategy Behind GE’s Instagram Campaign
GE recently launched their new Instagram campaign #GEInspiresMe… and I love everything about it! I give kudos to any major brand that adopts Instagram, but GE has beaten my expectations by demonstrating a solid understanding of how to structure a rewarding experience on the social platform. Here’s what works about GE’s approach: the campaign… legitimately brands crowd sourced content without alienating the audience rewards participants cyclically for their participation, with multiple stages to the contest engages the Facebook fan base to… Continue Reading
November 17, 2011
A Moustache-y Check In
We’re over half way through the month and it’s time to check in on the moustache brigade at Carrot Creative. These fine gentlemen have taken moustache growing to the next level. Check out the Carrot crew at Brooklyn Bridge Park… and don’t forget to donate to the cause! The Crew Steve Badowski Adam Katzenback Will Hutson Tony Briceno Nick Perold Dan Sullivan Bob Whitney See you at the end of… Continue Reading
