Comments on: Entering “Your Home Town”

By: Nikki - http://www.logodesignguru.com

Nikki - http://www.logodesignguru.com — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:42:18 +0000

Great thoughts there. Technology can be both and blessing and a nightmare at times but people certainly have no choice but to adapt to it and grow with it. facebook, linkdin and all of those networking sites are great ways to stay connected and I would definitely recommend them. They really allow you to stay in touch when it’s sometimes hard to do so, but sometimes you do have to go where your job is so hopefully you are successful where you are now. Good luck and keep posting!

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:43:09 +0000

This is a great post

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:41:02 +0000

Thanks Robin, I didn’t even realize that

By: Andy Jacobson

Andy Jacobson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:25:38 +0000

Thanks for your thoughts. That’s real wicked pissa of yah. ;-)

By: holly gewandter

holly gewandter — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:45:00 +0000

having grown up just down the road from you (alright, just down rte 9 from you), i know what you’re talking about. for a long time after i moved to nyc i felt deprived of the sense of community and continuity that living in a stable environment provided. that began to change when i had a child and really changed when we started the new shul. now i’m finding all this “social networking” to be a real manifestation of globalization in the very best sense. as the world gets smaller, my world gets bigger.

By: Andy Jacobson

Andy Jacobson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:44:24 +0000

Graham…

Thanks for being part of the conversation. I know you’ve done a lot to facilitate communications within the on-line community—all very much appreciated.

By: ImJustCreative

ImJustCreative — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:16:19 +0000

I can really relate to everything here Andy, more for reasons that are somewhat personal to go into on a blog post. But nevertheless, the online social crowd can almost become the surrogate or foster friends/family that you may struggle to find time for in ‘out of work hours’.

Since they are there with you pretty much every step of the way. Literally just a few presses and you have potentially 100’s of people to chat and communicate with.

It’s simply astonishing really when you really sit back and think about it.

As Adelle said, a very thought provoking post and it’s one subject that has been on my mind for some time now. Glad you have expressed these thoughts…
Graham

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By: adelle charles

adelle charles — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:19:56 +0000

Andy, amazingly thought provoking article! I sat down and read this a few times before it was published and now reading it over again-along with all the comments, it’s even better! Thank you for taking the time to write an article for FYC.

By: Andy Jacobson

Andy Jacobson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:03:25 +0000

Good thought Robin! hadn’t considered how it may affect other industries.

By: Robin Benjamin

Robin Benjamin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:31:31 +0000

I work in the same environment. At home or in an office with one other agent selling real estate. The networking through the internet is sometimes the only conversations I have in a 24 hour period! Nice job Andy.

By: Andy Jacobson

Andy Jacobson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:54:00 +0000

Mitternacht, Rob, Aaron, & Andy… Lovely and interesting comments. Thanks so much for your feedback. – A

By: Melissa O'Dell

Melissa O'Dell — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:50:35 +0000

Cool Andrew!! Sounds like you are doing great. I forwarded it to my husband who is also a designer. My love to your family.

By: Andy Polaine

Andy Polaine — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:24:15 +0000

I totally agree – I have the same thing having moved to a small town in Germany. I know people here, of course, but they’re not the same crowd I might have bumped into and hung out with in, say, Sydney or London. In fact I’d say that for me the online contact keeps me sane when I’m working as a lone consultant/freelancer – if I stick on the Last.fm or Blip.fm feed to some of my friends’ companies in London, fire up Twitter, it’s almost like being there with them, just without the smell.

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By: Aaron Irizarry

Aaron Irizarry — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:19:51 +0000

Nice article, I have been really experiencing the benefits of being a part of a design community that i mostly interact with through social media, I have found it very helpful. I like the Home Town analogy. Thanks again for the good read Aaron Irizarry´s last blog post..Defining User Experience pt.2

By: Rob Gokee

Rob Gokee — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:16:10 +0000

Thanks for the link to this at Twitter, enjoyed the blog. As a film composer, I too know the need for broadening my "brand" over the web, while still trying to maintain a local reach for my clients. Rob Gokee´s last blog post..The Creative Process Part 1