Carrot Creative Blog

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.

In anticipation of a sweeping victory for Barack Obama we’ve set up a fanpage to rally the electorate for one final election day push.

Check out our free election schwag on the “Yes We Did” fanpage.

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.

>carrot is proud to announce the launch of one of our most exciting applications to date: MLBFanbook. This app allows obsessed MLB fans to connect with each other and their favorite teams. It also gives fans the ability to write on players’ walls, letting them get closer to their idols than ever before. Users can also schedule games to watch with their Facebook friends and heckle/cheer them just like at an actual game.

School has started back up and Teach The People is hitting the books— Facebook that is. We are proud to announce that Teach The People, the world’s first people powered University, is now a Facebook application. TTP recently released its Facebook application in time for TechCrunch 50, where TTP was part of the Alumni Hall exhibit.

We are proud to have worked with TTP to utilize the power of Facebook to offer a tool for people to share the useful knowledge they can offer the world. If you forgot to bring your notes on TTP, here’s a brief summary: TTP is a service that leverages a user’s social graph to provide relevant community based education. Through a variety of traditional and non-traditional tools, TTP crowdsources educational demand by providing tools to intelligently connect educators and learners.

Come join the best team on Facebook—Team It Up.

>carrot is excited to announce that Team It Up, the first comprehensive sports utility application, is a home run on Facebook. As both the developers for this application and as sports fans/former athletes ourselves, we are thrilled to bring all facets of the sports world to the general Facebook fanbase. Never before have Facebook users been able to:

Today we are pleased to announce My Decree, a Facebook application which gives young, fashion-forward women the chance to represent the JC Penney Decree brand on Facebook in addition to receiving $1,500 towards a charity of their choice. >carrot had the wonderful opportunity to work with Saatchi & Saatchi and JC Penney on this project ,which is a definite game changer in the world of Facebook applications and one that should help the Decree brand gain a huge amount of traction with it’s target demo.

Check out My Decree when it launches tomorrow at http://apps.new.facebook.com/mydecree/

New data has come to light that pins the success of Facebook’s new visual overhaul with a dismal 20% approval rating. According to Mark Zuckerberg, “Around 20% of our users have now migrated to the new platform and it has been received well after people get used to it.” ¹

As with other novel features on Facebook the redesign has clearly been met with massive opposition. Now the real question is, what should Facebook do? That’s easy, think of the user.