This document discusses expanding the "We Create Here" campaign throughout the Creative Corridor region. It provides assets like banners, posters, and videos that organizations can use to promote the campaign. It encourages organizations to post badges on their websites and host mini-events to engage their networks. Distribution spots for stickers and clings are suggested. Customizing the campaign for specific organizations and an online store are presented as potential "big wins". The goal is to build regional pride and community among creative people in the area.
Residential and Commercial Interior DesignSusan Rossie
Fore more than 40 years, Fredman Design Group has been passionate about creating spaces that are not only unique to each of our clients' projects, but that embrace their individual tastes.
Residential and Commercial Interior DesignSusan Rossie
Fore more than 40 years, Fredman Design Group has been passionate about creating spaces that are not only unique to each of our clients' projects, but that embrace their individual tastes.
Our region, the greater Iowa City/Cedar Rapids area, is a place that supports innovation, collaboration, imagination and making new ideas happen. This presentation outlines six strategies we will take as a seven county area in 2013 to continue to identify, connect and shine a light on the thousands of people in our region who live these ideals every day. Together, we'll strengthen our communities and celebrate our success, letting it be known far and wide that we are proud of this place we call home, our brilliant neighbors all around us, and the huge opportunities that present themselves here all the time.
The amount of content that exists today is staggering, and growing exponentially. The need to organize and structure it has never been greater. But with silos strong within organizations and stronger across them, how do we align people to set priorities? A website is too downstream and political to solve IA and content problems. But a subject domain model is one way to gain a clearer picture of the universe outside of any interface.
A domain model is a representation of the concepts within a subject area, while a content model represents the content and their structure and relationships.
Talk given at World IA Day DC in February 2017
Check out our sponsorship deck for exciting ways to connect your brand with DC Ideas Fest, the first truly inclusive celebration of the cultural capital of DC residents!
Our region, the greater Iowa City/Cedar Rapids area, is a place that supports innovation, collaboration, imagination and making new ideas happen. This presentation outlines six strategies we will take as a seven county area in 2013 to continue to identify, connect and shine a light on the thousands of people in our region who live these ideals every day. Together, we'll strengthen our communities and celebrate our success, letting it be known far and wide that we are proud of this place we call home, our brilliant neighbors all around us, and the huge opportunities that present themselves here all the time.
The amount of content that exists today is staggering, and growing exponentially. The need to organize and structure it has never been greater. But with silos strong within organizations and stronger across them, how do we align people to set priorities? A website is too downstream and political to solve IA and content problems. But a subject domain model is one way to gain a clearer picture of the universe outside of any interface.
A domain model is a representation of the concepts within a subject area, while a content model represents the content and their structure and relationships.
Talk given at World IA Day DC in February 2017
Check out our sponsorship deck for exciting ways to connect your brand with DC Ideas Fest, the first truly inclusive celebration of the cultural capital of DC residents!
WeMake is a creative platform that fosters art & design in the Portland, OR community. Making connections, making friends, making a difference. Come make it happen.
User Experience: The good, the bad, and the ugly IxDA Chicago
General Assembly and IxDA paired up to bring in the experts to discuss their thoughts on the subject in an effort to teach others how to do more of what we love in UX/UI and to stop doing what we don't.
We discussed awesome and not-so-great examples of user experience and user interface design, straight from the experts themselves.
Getting The Most Out of Networking at Conferences & EventsSeed Here Studio
Andy Stoll, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Seed Here Studio presented this session on 'How To Get The Most Out of Networking at Conference and Events' at Vault Startup School and an Iowa Sourcelink Webinar in April 2014. More information on Andy Stoll at seedherestudio.com
Startup Community Alchemy: A Model for Building An Entrepreneurial EcosytemSeed Here Studio
This model is a work-in-progress being developed to help formulate a model to implement real world strategies towards growing an entrepreneurial ecosystem/community in a place not necessarily known for such things.
It is based on research and real world success in New Orleans, Omaha, Kansas City, Boulder, Nashville and Des Moines and is currently being lab tested in the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City region of Iowa. It is meant to be a broad based model that can be used to implement location-specific solutions that takes into account local resources and conditions in the particular city.
Feedback, constructive criticism and comments are welcome and encouraged.
We are available to present, share or discuss this at your event, organization, conference or individually.
Please feel free to contact us.
Andy Stoll
Co-Founder, Seed Here Studio
andy@seedhere.org
You can find more information on this topic at www.andystoll.net/startupculture and by reading Brad Feld's book Startup Communities.
This is a short presentation on some of the learning derived from research in New Orleans, Omaha and Cedar Rapids/Iowa City, on how to catalyze and begin to build a connected network/ecosystem for entrepreneurs in a city not traditionally known for a strong entrepreneurial culture. This presentation is not intended to present a comprehensive solution, but rather some key principles and a common theoretical model that has emerged in the research. This is certainly a work in progress and your feedback is welcome
Andy Stoll is the co-founder of Startup Iowa and Iowa-based Seed Here Studio, a social good startup working to catalyze a more connected community of entrepreneurs, creatives and the people that support them in Cedar Rapids/Iowa City, Iowa and across The Silicon Prairie.
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OUR MISSION
Build regional pride.
The Why:
Because we love this place and want to build community
among everyone who feels the same way.
The How:
•Expand the We Create Here campaign throughout the
region.
•Integrate the words and graphics into daily life in the
Corridor.
What’s your why and how?
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SET THE EXAMPLE
Ask all Task Force, Corridor Alliance and Corridor Business
Alliance members to post a badge on their website(s) and
print publications by June 25.
•How do we inspire and/or entice them further?
•What other groups would be interested?
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HOST MINI EVENTS
Ask Task Force, Corridor Alliance and Corridor Business
Alliance members to host We Create Here mini-events with
their personal/professional networks this summer.
• How do we keep this easy and fun?
• What other groups would be interested?
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SET UP DISTRO SPOTS
Place stickers and window clings at Task Force and Corridor
Alliance members’ locations for easy pick up.
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art has also offered to be a
distro spot.
• What other places would be well-suited for collateral
distribution?
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CUSTOMIZE SPECIAL
COLLABORATIONS
Work with organizations interested in customizing the
campaign materials for their strategic use.
The City of Iowa City, University of Iowa and Proctor &
Gamble have all reached out to integrate the campaign in
customized ways.
• Who else would be interested?