Gregory Robleto

Missteps of the Innovator

Greg — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:12:04 +0000

As I finished reading The Innovators Dilemma, by Clayton M. Christensen, and I was charged up. I became aware of a successful path on integrating innovation into a large company, and I realized with new clarity how close my company had come in our own efforts, and where we misstepped. Some of the main takeaways are: The [...]

Awesome new White House Flickr photos

Greg — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:39:58 +0000

See, if it wasn’t for Flickr, I would never have known that our President takes meetings with pirates. I would support the initiative to have more transparency in government anyway, but I love how this new administration is using social media to provide these views inside the Oval Office. On Flickr they are literally providing views inside [...]

My GTDIQ quiz results

Greg — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:56:08 +0000

Having read David Allen’s Getting Things Done and Making It All Work, having the Mastering Workflow diagram up in my cube, having a clean inbox and an active to-do list, I thought I would be closer to the upper-right Captain and Commander area. But apparently I am still too quick to respond to urgent (in [...]

SXSW Takeaways

Greg — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:31:11 +0000

#post-247 div { font-size: 16px; } A group of us Fools attended the 2009 South by Southwest Interactive conference; here is the slide deck of a few of the learnings and ideas that we took away. What Users Want A fast food industry wanted to increase the sales of milkshakes, so they put out a poll as to when and [...]

Cool As Buttons at SXSW

Greg — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:28:10 +0000

As an homage to my closing line in the great movie by Tom Crenshaw at SXSWi 08, Selena designed this button (right) of what I have heard called “the cutest little poo ever.” I also heard it called “the best button at South by” which made me very proud of my talented designer wife. I [...]

SXSW Notebook

Greg — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:08:37 +0000

Over the past two SXSWi conferences I have taken copious detailed notes on the laptop, and been uninspired to do much sifting through them once I got home. (I think I made this one blog post). This year, I bought a nice new unlined notebook and pen and went the old-fashioned route of taking notes [...]

I’m gonna find me a damn hippo

Greg — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:17:07 +0000

I am really sucked in by the simple marketing / brand exposure campaign from the Canadian based mortgage community company, Smart Hippo. They are setting up a Twitter-based Scavenger hunt, leaving clues on their feed to find one of these stuffed hippos (pictured). I love scavenger hunts and immediately without thinking twice set to follow [...]

Off to SXSWi

Greg — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:59:15 +0000

For the next week, I’ll be making my annual pilgrimage to Austin, TX for the South by Southwest Interactive conference. This week of panels and networking is a yearly renewal of my passion for great design and reaffirmation that I want to (continue to try to) be a great web designer. To find me in [...]

Objective: I want the job you are trying to fill

Greg — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:20:18 +0000

Here’s a resume writing tip: be specific in your objective; and (if you can do so without being disingenuous) express that you don’t just want a job, you want THAT job. I looked through fifteen resumes tonight trying to find the best candidate to fill a Production Designer position. Each resume presented numerous positive attributes [...]

Super Bowl’s Super Ad Awards

Greg — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:00:23 +0000

Super Bowl Sunday provided as good a game as can be played without the Eagles, and that in-game excitement helped to bail out the very lackluster crop of ads. Here I give out awards to the ones that were notable IMHO: We’re Crashing the Party Award – Cash 4 Gold I was thinking this was going [...]