San Diego-based Brickfish, an online advertising network focused on social media, announced this monring that it has hired Becky Carroll as the firm's Director of Social Media. Carroll will head up the firm's social media marketing. The firm is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P., The firm said that Carroll joins the company from Petra Consulting Group, where she was President and Founder. Carroll has also served at Peppers and Rogers Group, Hewlett Packard, and NASA/Ames Research Center.

San Diego-based Brickfish , a provider of social media marketing and advertising services, said Tuesday that Nike is using the firm as part of a user-generated photo contest. Brickfish runs social media campaigns and social media advertising for companies, and is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P., Tags: brickfish nike social media advertising agency Brickfish said that Nike is running a campaign called "What Do You Play For?" with the Youth Noise organization, which will ask entrants to submit photos demonstrating how they

San Diego-based Brickfish , a developer of social media and networking software being used by brands, reported today that it has hired on a Paul Botto, most recently Head of Analytics for the North American Sales Organization at Google, as its Vice President of Sales. Brickfish is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P., Botto joined Google through Google's acquisition of Urchin Software, where he was Business Development Manager. Mangrove Capital Partners, and OCA Ventures, and counts such firms as Nike, MTV Networks, Coach, The North Face, Samsung, and others as clients.

Santa Monica-based Social Project--which was once known as Tagworld--has been acquired by MTV Networks, MTV said Monday. According to MTV Networks, which is a division of Viacom, the acquisition will allow the firm to accelerate its introduction of its Flux social media platform across its portfolio. Social Project is behind the development of Flux, software which allows web publishers to create their own social networking web sites. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. According to MTV, Social Project and its 31 employees will remain based

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