Greg Huntoon - Latest Comments

Re: Fritter? What Facebook’s Opening Up Means for Twitter

small business web design — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:40:49 -0000

Certainly helpful for me and other readers also as I am finding so many
good comments here.I hope that I can love it as much as you.

Re: Grammar and effective communication

Arshil Jah — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:51:05 -0000

awesome...well represented your thoughts

Re: Keep Your (Design) Job Right Now

devjobspl.us — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:39:05 -0000

Great advice!

Re: Fritter? What Facebook’s Opening Up Means for Twitter

perth web design — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:49:36 -0000

I don't see why people is interested in Twitter. For me I use Facebook for more exposure and you can easily advertise your product on certain people or places.

Re: Fritter? What Facebook’s Opening Up Means for Twitter

Naples web design — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:08:26 -0000

If I'm gonna compare facebook and twitter which are both useful for social media marketing, I will choose facebook because in facebook you can filter those users who are really interested in your updates but I guess in twitter there is also a process to do that but I didn't know that yet, so I still go on with facebook. I use twitter sometimes.

Re: OpenID and mobile apps? Anyone? Bueller?

Baby Slings — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:27:00 -0000

Open ID keeps getting better and better.

Re: Social Media Must Be Human to Work

ajleon — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:32:19 -0000

Yep, I was a finance guy before I became a geek :) By the way, loved your post, bro!

Re: Social Media Must Be Human to Work

greghuntoon — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:36:33 -0000

Loved your post. Hope that everyone who cruises through here goes to read it. I actually just wrote a bit of a follow-up to it myself... http://brk.to/xt. Really enjoyed reading a bunch more back into your past work experience...didn't know you were a finance guy, originally.

Re: Social Media Must Be Human to Work

ajleon — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:55:39 -0000

Great post, homie! Funny thing I wrote and published a similar post at what must have been almost the exact same time today! You know what they say about great minds ... http://ajleon.me/the-econom... . So great seeing ya at SXSW bud :)

Re: After a Twelve Year Arch, It All Comes Full Circle

nick — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:37:48 -0000

We're going to have such a fun ride. So glad we're on the road together.

Re: After a Twelve Year Arch, It All Comes Full Circle

Folake Huntoon — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:10:15 -0000

You are my idol! Break is where you belong. Granted, you love to work, but I have never seen you so passionate/excited about a position like this. If you had your way, you'd work 12 hour days..no BS! Lol.

Much Love!

Re: Twitter, Please Stop Asking People What They’re Doing

Kat — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:03:59 -0000

I think I mix and match, some of my stuff is the what am I doing stuff, sometimes interesting and sometimes dull but I do try and link to pics, even if it is to highlight the pain of me being stuck on a train on the commute to work. I'm also quite noisey and chat a lot to other people so my stream normally has quite s few @s going on.

Re: Keep Your (Design) Job Right Now

York web designer — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:44:56 -0000

a very interesting article, written from a different perspective. I have been in the position of trying to get a design job before the recession and it was not a nice experience, so i feel for anyone who is having to go through that now. I used to just design for print, but the number of jobs that wanted an all in one print and web designer was wake up call. You would not expect a plumber to do your electrics as well, but that seems to be the case in our industry. If anyone is the unfortunate position of being of work, my advice would be to try and keep upto date with trends as it is all to easy to get stuck in a rut and fall behind.

Re: Epic Change – Building a Locally-Led School in Tanzania

Greg Huntoon — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:19:34 -0000

Forgot the link: http://bit.ly/blobresults

Re: Epic Change – Building a Locally-Led School in Tanzania

Greg Huntoon — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:18:46 -0000

I am so proud to pass along the word that Epic Change won the $10k contest! Super excited for Stacey and the kids who are going to benefit from this money! Wow. So amazing.

Re: Are You Doing What You Love, Right Now?

Ian Cooley — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:26:50 -0000

I really identify with your sentiments. Thanks for the insightful post.

Re: Twitter, Please Stop Asking People What They’re Doing

Ann — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:02:09 -0000

I like being exempt from something...I wish it was from work though. Or calories from the Red Velvet Cake. But I digress.

Okay, good - there is some entertainment value then, I can go with that, I can work with it.

I do agree though that the "eating a sandwich" or "just dropped my pen" just makes me wonder. Where's the creativity? Can't they at least say "eating a sandwich made of earthworms sauteed in a wine reduction sauce. Still tastes earthy" -or- "just dropped my pen down my boss' pants and had to retrieve. Awkward. But did get a raise, literally and figuratively."

I mean, COME ON people. Ya know? \Rant

Most importantly - CONGRATS on that baby!!!! All the best to you, your lovely wife, and the mini-human! :)))))

Re: Twitter, Please Stop Asking People What They’re Doing

Greg Huntoon — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:49:46 -0000

And (as I just DM'd you Ann), you don't fit into the "lame" category very well because your tweets are velvetty-crafted quips dripping with light-hearted self-deprecation. It's like you bake your tweets almost as nicely as your RVC (well, I can only imagine it's the bomb...because my version of your cake is the bomb, and I'm sure I'm doing something slightly off).

Your tweets make me laugh nearly every single time I read...so, you're exempt. And I guess, that's a part of this whole conversation....there are certainly ways to add value without links, @replies and whatnot. Have something of value, or at least filled with wit.

Oh, who cares. Be boring. Whatever. ;)

Re: Twitter, Please Stop Asking People What They’re Doing

Ann — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:31:08 -0000

I meant "you're". Damn me.

Re: Twitter, Please Stop Asking People What They’re Doing

Ann — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:30:24 -0000

Great analogy. I have to admit...I'm kind of a lame tweeter. Okay, I have never tweeted "eating a sandwich" and I hate that nonsense when I see it. But I do just kind of tweet about nonsense.

Case in point (here I am, bashing myself, per usual), here is my last tweet: My hair is so dry that if I rubbed it on itself, it would start a fire.

Could that be ANY more nonsense oriented? I think not. I'm just a linkless fool wandering about Twitter, making an ass of myself.

Hey, at least your not me. Count yourself lucky. Your tweets are way more utilitarian.

Re: Epic Change – Building a Locally-Led School in Tanzania

Stacey Monk — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:36:56 -0000

Greg - you and the entire community have really come together to support Epic Change & I couldn't be more grateful. Thanks so much for your post!

I wonder what this says about the potential of social media to bring truly fresh voices into the conversation and so very much look forward to seeing how that will change the world.

THANKS!!!!
Stacey Monk
Founder, Epic Change

Re: Are You Doing What You Love, Right Now?

Sommer — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:36:02 -0000

Greg,
When pondering over some of life's questions, particularily this one, you have to consider circumstances. I too think about my purpose, and if my work impacts others and makes the world a better place. The fact that you think this way is a step in the right direction. It takes creative people to create the jobs that do this, usually. If there is good in your heart, and your intentions are positive, the universe will move you in the direction desired, as your attitude dictates your life, typically. (I got that one from the movie, Mulholland Drive lol). We know that you support a wife that is fortunate to have your help to afford her life of working in her passion, and you have three happy children. You impact them positively and that's a great reward in itself. The rest will come. Sometimes we want things to move faster than the universe allows. Keep sharing those ideas, and like-minded individuals will help you CONTINUE to make the world a better place. That's my best answer.
-Sommer, the child bodyslammer

Re: Fritter? What Facebook’s Opening Up Means for Twitter

Boondock — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:03:22 -0000

It is good to actually see someone that uses facebook to connect with real friends and not just as a medium to garner "imaginary friends" so to speak.

No offense to anyone, but I honestly think twitter is for attention seekers who don't really have friends but just want to gather a number of followers so they can fulfill their illusions of friendship. It is too public to be for a person's real friends. For this reason, I think twitter should only be used for companies and brands (celebrities, news anchors and co) because they need the following for the success of their brands. But the trick is to follow any of these companies or celebs effectively, you have to open a twitter account. I don't own a twitter account to know exactly how twitter runs their ad campaigns but it seems they are using public images and companies to attract their fanbase to their site, and I don't think this is such a good thing for advertising unlike facebook where the users are already present and the companies come to them.

I know it is easier for me to subscribe to an application on a social network I already use than it is for me to open another social network account.

Re: Changing Lives: What Are We Doing Today?

cynthia — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:47:59 -0000

thanks for the thoughtful post, greg. the good news is that there are lots of people out there willing to help... i run a small nonprofit, Hippo Roller International, on a volunteer basis - and i'm consistently blown away by the number of talented people who volunteer their time, energy and expertise to help us in our mission to make a positive impact on the 1 in 6 people who have very limited access to water. the result is that we're accomplishing amazing things, and at the end of the day, everyone feels really good about their involvement. precious, especially in these tough times.

Re: Changing Lives: What Are We Doing Today?

Stacey — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:39:01 -0000

Well said. It's funny, I've recently been embroiled in a different version of this conversation, and it was refreshing to read your take.

It reminded me of a post from Alanna Shaikh at http://bloodandmilk.org/. She wrote:

"We’re all in this together. We’re not in this line of work because we want to help far-away strangers. We’re in it because, in the end, we’re one big blob of people on one scarred messy planet, and no one is truly healthy when others are bleeding. We are connected; there’s no way around it. It’s time to make that connectedness a source of strength."