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
The social media audit: Finding your assets
**This post was originally a guest post on SmartBlog on Social Media and can be viewed here. In this landscape, where everyone talks about the need to “get” social media, a basic social media audit can help you save a great deal of time before rolling out a larger strategy. Carrot Creative’s audit takes into account your current social media presence but also looks at what assets you have that can be leveraged across online channels. For example, while some… Continue Reading
SM4SC – Carrot doing some good in the neighborhood
Here at Carrot Creative, we obviously like social media.We live and breathe it. We also like charity and getting involved in the community. So when our nice friends who organized the successful Social Media For Social Change (SM4SC)last year in Boston asked us to participate in the New York version this year—we obviously said yes.We also loaned some of our skillful Carrot Crew members to help with some redesign work as well. (Don’t worry, we have them back and they… Continue Reading
Digital DUMBO Drinks #2- Another success
Photo courtesy of Kelly Samardak and Just an Online Minute. Last night Carrot Creative co-hosted the second drinks gathering for Digital DUMBO. This was another hugely successful event with not only local DUMBO companies represented by HUGE, The Jar Group and Free Association but our friends from across the bridge. Tim Nolan, an extremely talented flash artist displayed his work on the flat screens kicking off a new trend of featuring an artist or display from the DUMBO scene. As… Continue Reading
Models + Fashion + Technology= Nerd's Dream
Photo Courtesy of Style Coalition. More photos from the event here. Last night I had the privilege of attending the Style Coalition’s Digital Moda event organized by Inside the Tents bringing together the fashion, media and technology elite. How was it? Well, besides AWESOME I don’t know how else I could describe it. What was really cool was the fact that while I expected most of the conversations to revolve around the runway and designers I don’t know about (come… Continue Reading
Social Media- Idiots Not Welcome
Photo Credit: Kelly Samardak, Just An Online Minute Yesterday I attended the “When Social Media Becomes Unsociable” panel part of this week’s “Social Media Week” in New York. The panel, held at Fleishman Hillard’s New York office was full of people who engage/work in the new media space including: Constantine Basturea, Converseon Steve Coulson, The Advance Guard Peter Himler, Flatiron Communications Brad Mays, FH Digital Dallas Amber Naslund, Radian6 David Bradfield (Moderator from FH Digital) A full recap of what… Continue Reading
Today’s the Day!
We hope you’re as excited as we are for today’s inaugural. To make the most out of today’s historic celebrations we’ve compiled a list of social media websites dedicated to the inauguration. Share My Inauguration Follow 24 students from an inner-city Chicago school as they travel to Washington to experience national treasures and our election process firsthand. The site is enhanced with student created video and has a section where you too can share your inauguration experience. Baratunde.com Our good… Continue Reading
Hear ye. Hear ye.
My fellow Interwebians. In a little over four days our country will finally experience the change we’ve all been working so hard to initiate. The members of the >carrot crew have been staunch supporters of the Obama administration since day one and can’t wait to experience the most important inauguration in modern memory. But let’s face it, after next Tuesday we’re going to be looking for our next big cause to rally behind. Luckily that day is already here. The… Continue Reading
There are so many people we'd like to thank…
I just wanted to say thank you on behalf of the entire @CarrotCreative, for the positive feedback & numerous features of carrotcreative.com. We really had a blast putting together our site, and it was a great way to test out some ideas and technologies, creatively. We’ve been featured on numerous CSS sites (css WOW, cssimport, CSSclip, CSS Remix , to name a few) for inspiration to others. We’ve also been cited as an example for designing cityscapes (Lee Munroe) and… Continue Reading
A New Addition
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… Continue Reading
