Carrot Creative Blog

Dumbo loft, check.
Free Brooklyn beer, check (thank you RRE Ventures).
Everyone in room geeking-out over mobile apps, check.

This pretty much sums up the Monday Mobile Brooklyn event this past Monday night where our very own Robert Gaafar, Carrot Creative’s CEO presented our submission to the NYC Big Apps contest: “Where Brooklyn App?”

HUGE , Carrot Creative neighbor (we have a view of their window) and recent Digital DUMBO host, organized an Internet Week event today at the DUMBO Arts Center.

A Job Grows In Brooklyn: Brooklyn-based interactive agency HUGE challenge you to steal their jobs.Think you’re good? Take it to the next level by learning from HUGE’s celebrated senior team. Find out what they’re looking for in the next big talent. Now that you’re a major player, how do you move higher? Where are the jobs in digital going? Developers, visual designers, project managers and interaction designers will learn to become more confident, more marketable and who knows, maybe land an interview with HUGE. We’ll share on-the-job insights and take you through examples of applicants that did (and didn’t) make the cut.

Here at >carrot creative, we pride ourselves on working with clients that we like. No, scratch that—LOVE. We take pride in doing stellar work for people that do really cool things. So, when we had the opportunity to work with a company that not only resides in DUMBO with us but is also known as an industry power player—the answer was obvious. Sign. Us. Up.

We’re happy to announce today that >carrot creative will now provide social media strategy, design and development work to Complete Control Management, a leading artist management and music marketing company.

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.

Photo courtesy of Nick McGlynn

Carrot Creative co-hosted the first Digital DUMBO Drinks event here last night at ReBar where the digital elite of our quaint little neighborhood mixed and mingled under the bridge, talked Java scripting and new media strategies in addition to enjoying some cocktails and Outside.in cupcakes.

A big Shout-out from the Couch to Charlie O’Donnell, as he spent a day in the Carrot office last week chatting up the current NY Tech scene, what he’s up to with his company Path101 as well as some fun baseball banter. (Charlie is a Mets fan for the record as notably displayed in the photo.)

Charlie is CEO of  Path101, a career discovery destination. He is also founder of nextNY, a grassroots participant-driven organization of more than 2,000 up and coming digital media and technology professionals in NYC. The Carrot Crew are big fans and members.

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.

Of course we did! Newfangled digital tape of course! Today we had the pleasure of overlooking the “set” of Law & Order Criminal Intent and the fabulous NYC based drama Gossip Girl. Our view from the front lines is available on our flickr page.