Dissertation Support Requested

BEGGING - I AM UNDER DEADLINE
(I know you know what that's like!)

IRB Protocol number 10303

Study: Business Coursework &/or other preparation for an Applied Arts career in Marketing

Hello!

        I am begging for a total of 40 minutes of your time! Openly asking if you or anyone you know would be willing to contact me to do

·         a survey (17 questions in 2 parts),

·         an interview (conversationally about 15 to 20 questions),

·         and to share some images (as you deem significant) …

… as part of my dissertation.

            Criteria is that they graduated from one of 42 AICAD accredited schools (http://www.aicad.org/) as an illustration major. There would be an informed consent form (all individual results are confidential) and your total commitment, all inclusive, is –planned for under 50 minutes. Respondents will receive aggregate level results (confidentiality assured).

            I am a doctoral candidate at Argosy University School of Business, with a BFA from UArts in Illustration, and as an educator of 30+ years, a university professor for much of that, I sense something of a potential  gap in curriculum.  The research seeks to confirm suspicions that may exist, further the conversation about what constitutes success, and otherwise shed light on the relationship between right and left brain paradigms, applied arts and business. This is intended as foundational research.

            Research is later intended as regards this consideration and other applied arts.  Further research may also venture what business can learn from the arts and vice versa.  What inherent default boundaries of thinking and behavior occur based on these right / left-brain considerations.  Cultures generally and specific to business, to the arts, and any role education plays in exacerbating such divisions, pro or con (and more).

   Thank you,

   Frank Davis

professorfrankdavis@gmail.com, 727 527 4623

*It does not matter what year you went or which AICAD school it was, which include:

Alberta College of Art and Design Art Academy of Cincinnati Art Center College of Design Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University California College of the Arts California Institute of the Arts Cleveland Institute of Art College for Creative Studies Columbus College of Art and Design Corcoran College of Art and Design Cornish College of the Arts Cranbrook Academy of Art Emily Carr University of Art and Design Kansas City Art Institute Laguna College of Art and Design Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Maine College of Art Maryland Institute College of Art Massachusetts College of Art and Design Memphis College of Art Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Montserrat College of Art Moore College of Art and Design New Hampshire Institute of Art NSCAD University (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design) OCAD University Oregon College of Art and Craft Otis College of Art and Design Pacific Northwest College of Art Parsons The New School for Design Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Pennsylvania College of Art and Design Pratt Institute Rhode Island School of Design Ringling College of Art and Design San Francisco Art Institute School of the Art Institute of Chicago School of the Museum of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts The Cooper Union The University of the Arts Watkins College of Art Design & Film

Business Nightmares, by the grace of Sara Z

There's a new strip in town, and I'm delighted to share this related business item: comics with more vitality than Dilbert! Sara Zimmerman has an "all in" attitude balanced with a light and airy posture. Great stuff to add to your "business menu".

............Enjoy ! ..............

http://unearthedcomics.com/comics/business-nightmares/

Guy's free marketing books

From Guy Kawasaki: To celebrate the New Year, you can get four of his books for free. Please spread this link as far and wide as you can. http://www.yousendit.com/download/WUJZZUNndWNlaFRMYnRVag The books are: What the Plus!, The Macintosh Way, Database 101, and The Computer Curmudgeon. Happy New Year!

business idea project - OR [online recovery] 10of10

business idea project - OR [online recovery] 9of10

business idea project - OR [online recovery] 8of10

business idea project - OR [online recovery] 7of10

business idea project - OR [online recovery] 6of10

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business idea project - OR [online recovery] 4of10

business idea project - OR [online recovery] 3of10

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It is hoped the viewer will bear out the next eight clips as well before passing judgement.

The proposed business is not summed in any given clip.

business idea project - OR [online recovery] 1of10

I thought I'd go ahead and start the new year with something more engaging than I'm accustomed to offering. I had the thought to invite the audience into a project.

For the next two weeks I will post daily a relatively brief video clip (for nine days) that together constitute a fairly comprehensively developed service/business.

As always, you are invited to comment, and now in particular you are encouraged to engage back.

From time to time in the past I have offered up business ideas for the taking. This is not one of those. I personally have a lot invested in this idea and I would like to see it come to life. However, despite being fully committed and very passionate about this idea I need to share the responsibility for bringing it to life.

Given the current breakthroughs in gesture technology, established paradigms such as the Sims, ongoing advances in machine translation and the culturally accepted phenomenon of making avatars of oneself (and obviously so much more), one will readily see the 2.0 and a 3.0 and other subsequent versions will only become significantly more wonderful to experience. Still, there is enough established that if other minds of business expertise and Web creation mastery were to join this endeavor we could likely produce a muscular phenomenon in a relatively brief span of time.

If you truly can contribute in a meaningful way, and are looking to become a partner in this project beyond commenting here there is an e-mail link in my profile (in case you are not aware).

~Enjoy!

The online education paradigm (& business)

Ouch
   I will begin here with my complaints, numerous as they are, for I wish to end on a positive note.
   There is nothing "live" about some of the models out there. In these instances, we are looking at paradigms which simply trade an inordinate number of posts, papers and feedback. I say inordinate because that is one of the hallmarks of this model, it seems to need to justify itself, so it puts a heavier burden on the student. Basically, twice the work for half the experience.
   This also corrupts the learning process in innumerable ways. Whatever interaction we find variously shows itself stilted, postured and a place to hide. I am sure that for some it is cause to diminish the importance of the experience and/or their participation.
   One expression of significant consideration is about employment today and the capacity to network. Despite these typically being a group of ostensibly bright people, paying significant money to be “around” each other, there is a strong tendency to overlook simply participating in shared information. Consequently, it is entirely possible to experience a class, even at the doctorate level, and have it end without having any way to be in touch with a majority the colleagues you paid so much money to share such time.
   I taught online at another institution that had a somewhat different set up. There was a designated time for an online experience that constituted the class. Everyone had at least the speaker and microphone, if not a Webcam. This would have worked out better, but in so far as this institution also recorded the class (which, of itself, is fine), and made the recording available after the fact, no students ever showed up for class. As an instructor, I still had a commitment to be there. Week after week, I found myself speaking to my monitor, teaching the class to no one. Obviously, this could have been better but for the logistical nonsense. Retrieving the recorded class after the fact should not eclipse attendance in the class itself. Unfortunately, that institution had actually championed this "convenience" to its tuition dollars... oh; excuse me, its students.

The Upside
   I am also aware of institutions that only make online classes available by faculty who teach the same class on ground, with a twist. Baylor, for example, has its ground classes video recorded and integrated into the online experience; also including Webcam. We see a pattern here, where the more muscular the technology used, the closer we get to a ground interaction. Perhaps this is the best we can hope for at this time. I sense this is a direction that most good schools could easily move in the direction of, strongly need to consider, and will eventually have to move in (the sooner the better) to stay competitive.
   The primary irony here is this writing is by a business major. It is not lost on this student all the iterations and layers of fiscal value to have this structure in place. For every good business reason online education is here to stay.
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(consider this a text box, narrative continues below)

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 Holography

CNN Hologram TV First

tp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOxW19vsTg

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBMbKBsmtpc

1 min 28 sec - Nov 4, 2008

Minolta and the Milo Venus

Related 3-D spatial: THIS is complicated

http://www.futureishere.biz/museumofbeauty/

Holophone’s true and false

ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_u9paWQJbs&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aZQOBCp3EE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEI4UPPBsSo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n83XjFSSvM&feature=related

related information

Almost Genius: An AR Interface for Drawing in 3-D

Fast Company

http://www.fastcompany.com/1665768/an-ar-interface-for-drawing-in-3-d

A Vision of K-12 Students Today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8

seadragon photosynth

be aware – what photography can now do

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosynth.html 7:30

Wear-able technology breakthrough (via MIT)

Talks Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the "Sixth Sense," game-changing wearable tech

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html 8:42

an annual contribution from Sony Corp. – Did You Know

2007

Why we’ll be students the rest of our lives just to be competitive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUnA7HzGFbo 5:16

2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8

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   From the needs perspective, ground classes should never go away. However, a quality online educational experience augments educational need as well. Moreover, the better the delivery system is developed, the better the augmentation is. The future is bright. There has been a recent commercial renaissance with a 3-D experience; arguably, the turning point was the movie Avatar. We are now seeing 3-D televisions making their way into homes. I see this as a transitional stage to holography eventually becoming pedestrian. I am including a text box with a collection of links that highlight various approaches and applications for this technology.
   While it is likely entirely possible to have this technology within the next 5 to 10 years integrated into the online experience of education, I imagine it may actually take a generation. Nevertheless, this is inevitable. In addition, once this takes place it should collapse all that griping and whining made earlier, out of pride for my school (or any educational experience) being all that can be.
   That would normally be the concluding statement. Yet, I cannot help but indulge myself for a moment. Imagine a time when you would attend a class, literally global. You enter a virtual classroom. There may be parameters regarding the degree to which your appearance may be you yourself, an avatar, or some combination thereof. Regardless, your voice is live, and so are your physical actions. That which is virtual, would in every way echo a ground class, as we know it today. Would this be the end of hollowed brick-and-mortar institutions, such as the ivies? Actually, possibly; and I can only trust that their individuals that are writing papers, as this paper is being written, reinventing themselves for the future.

RE: tippy toeing toward a conversation of Global Small Business (proactive? reactive?)

[from MM]
   On my humble opinion, companies in the US will continue to endure high cost in employment and regulations impose by the goverment when overseas is not an option. Unemployment as we all know is affecting MNCs products or services, we just need to search for the automotive industries and we will see that those companies offering smaller and greener technology are surviving this economic meltdown.
   I work closely with human resources professionals dedicated to recruit for global companies, and we all agree that high salaries and benefits offered by MNCs companies are greater than domestic companies. However, when sending an employee overseas can be cheaper as they get compensated according to the standards of the country in which the employee will be working. But still a good option for MNCs to continue to send employment overseas.
   Your approach to proactive and reactive reasons as a matter of survival, well said.

   Thanks M-. By focusing on the smallest of business I was looking to find businesses that just went Global ... and then got sidetracked. It's still a worthy pursuit, but the direction of the consideration proved meaningful enough anyway.
   However, when dealing with, as I used for an example, a business as small as a start up ad firm, or even an individual freelancer, there's little chance that one will outsource anything. In the instances when one does so, profit taking is not the motivation. At this level the planet truly becomes borderless!

tippy toeing toward a conversation of Global Small Business (proactive? reactive?)

   By this writers presumption, the “who has not expanded beyond our borders” question tends to target large corporations. Therefore, to the midsized businesses I went.
   “HSBC's International Business Survey found that the portion of U.S. executives planning to increase their overseas sales targets rose sharply to a survey high of 72%, up from 49% in 2008 and 56% in 2009, underscoring the rapid globalization of the core of America's economy” (Staff, 2010).
   In terms of going overseas for the first time ever the challenge to find recent examples doing business in foreign countries drives my focus to small companies. Naturally, the presumption here is the first time ever part.
   “Among the companies that have recently sent jobs overseas are Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ) in Palo Alto, CKE Restaurants Inc. in Irvine and Hilton Worldwide, the McLean, Va., hotelier that maintained a reservations center in Hemet employing 295 people” (Lee, 2010).
   So if we lift the first time ever consideration we find that companies that already have a presence overseas continue to pursue sending yet more employment overseas. A review of the rationale is without surprise: it is cheaper. This is nearly always the reason.
   Would there be a point to pushing for first time examples, contacting the SBA or SCORE, etc? The thought is there is no point to such a pursuit. However, is there a rationale for pursuing small business expressions in particular; yes. At the very least, it personalizes the dynamic.
   So on to the question at hand: proactive and reactive postures.
   There is an e-commerce fulfillment business called Shipwire that recently did its own internal study of its international orders; this being an expression of import and exports. Revealed is that 75% of global merchants were making use of this, compared with only 13% of US merchants. This may be why Pres. Obama announced the National Export Initiative (NEI) this past March; with the intention of doubling exports within five years (Watters , 2010).
   Such an acknowledgment may be long overdue. Since the 1980s, the US economy has flipped, and we have experienced more than a quarter of a century where we are importing more than we are exporting. Nonetheless, while we may point to reasons, such as the recently challenging economy, there seem numerous reasons to both be optimistic and hopeful.
   As regards small firms, Americans have never earned or spent more of our income than we do today globally. In 2009, American exports topped 1 trillion for the first time. American small businesses are successful as exporters; and this includes with China. Small businesses benefit from imports, access to global capital and demonstrate that they can thrive in the global marketplace (Griswold, 2007).
   Consider the global business language is ostensibly English, that e-mail to Skype (along with machine translation) is globally free and readily available, and the innumerable business models, where low or no inventory is available (as well as other relatively comfortable business models). Then consider how we used to have to build into markets just yesterday (from regional to national, etc., first). Micro-multinationals have been possible for a few years now. These are small businesses born directly global.
   In a 2007 Small Business Trends article, they note the substantial number of antique dealers on eBay selling globally. This would have been impossible a half generation ago (Campbell , 2007). As long as one is willing to do the homework, (employment regulations, shipping importation, etc.), it becomes a question of why not.
   In this context, the reasons are both reactive and proactive; it is a matter of survival. Being proactive and reactive are equally important, and would only be more or less so on a case-by-case basis. Now that the world is flat, new players on the scene are legitimately reactive in the face of whatever else is possible. On the planet Earth, anywhere else is possible. Therefore, why grow one's business when one can be born, proactively, globally.
   As an industry wide small business expression, I cannot think of an applied visual art that does not have a capacity to upload into a global cyberspace ones portfolio and take entrepreneurial responsibility for forwarding one's own fiscal results. Growing oneself as a brand, a business in one's own right may seem daunting by the moving parts to consider. The consolation is a planet wide universe wealth of opportunity.

References

Campbell , A. (2007, July 25, 2007 ). Go Global Without Waiting to Grow Up [Web log message]. Retrieved from http://smallbiztrends.com/2007/07/go-global-without-waiting-to-grow-up.html

Griswold, D. (2007, June 13, 2007). Individual Liberty, Free Markets, and Peace. The Large Stake of U.S. Small Business in an Expanding Global Economy.. the CATO Institute, (), . doi: Retrieved from http://www.cato.org/testimony/ct-dg06132007.html

Lee, D. (2010, October 6, 2010). U.S. jobs continue to flow overseas. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved from http://www.aarp.org/work/job-hunting/news-10-2010/u_s_jobs_continue_to_flow_overseas.html

Staff (2010, Wed June 30, 2010 12:24 pm). More US mid-sized companies look at expanding international revenues, reveals HSBC study. BI-ME. Retrieved from http://www.bi-me.com/main.php?id=46771&t=1&c=35&cg=4&mset=1011

Watters , A. (2010, May 3, 2010 4:00 PM). Study, Government Initiative Point to Small Businesses Expanding into Overseas Markets [Web log message]. Retrieved from http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/05/study-government-initiative-point-to-small-businesses-expanding-into-overseas-markets.php

Inbound marketing

  This is a quick little review of an audio book by Brian Halligan, and Darmesh Shah.
   I found the book to be a wonderful resource, very comprehensive, and something I'll probably look for in print just so I have a ready resource that I can actually open up. However, I emphatically do not recommend the audio book. The narrator, Erik Synnestvedt, had such a postured affectation that I could hardly push my way through listening to it all.
   I likely will not pursue much more of this technology than I already have; primarily because at this point I would probably need to have my own business or be an ad agency to push the technologies much further than I already have.
   So all in all, good reference, even worth pursuing if you're business or agency, but buy it in print - do not try listening to it.

eHRM (chapter 11)

   In the late 1990’s the Western Hemisphere Finance Ministers, the World Bank and the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies along with other experts worked with the Bank for International Settlements' Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems, and all the various South American countries central banks to review best practices and determine what might be possible vis-à-vis electronics and currency; e-commerce, remittances, deposits and transfers. High value and low value systems were weighed, precedent elsewhere was reviewed and the entirety of considerations regularly tweaked. Technologies and infrastructure grew along with the implementation, starting in 1999. By 2007 the majority of South America was established with the ability to deal in electronic currency.
   Imaging for the creation and implementation of cash management software, and similar new opportunities arose consequently. While a new paradigm may bring with it new challenges, it also brings new opportunities; and such security is certainly among them.
   Speed, naturally, was a sought after advantage. Among the so-called low value transactions, this found ACH, automated clearinghouses, making transnational interbank transactions quicker; indeed, if not for the first time.
   Many countries through vigorous support behind this movement. In 2003 / 2004 the Ecuadorian government made it a policy that all vendor and salary payments be made in this manner. In 2007, the Panamanian government moved nearly a quarter billion public employees to ACH payment systems.
   Speed was not the only primary driver. Other significantly important factors include reduced cost and sustainability.


Nancy Russell; N Russell Associates. (2008). Modernizing Payment Systems: Progress and Opportunity in Latin America (web based white paper as pdf ). Retrieved from N L Russell Associates: http://www.nlrussellassociates.com/pdfs/Modernizing_Payment_Systems.pdf

Happy 234! [some follow through]

   It’s only been a couple weeks, but I guess from time to time some follow through is in order. Seems a quarter of the posts have had further development, so some quick comments on these posts:
• the hope for the Kyrgyzstani roller coaster - Global, Business
• Defining Terms - Applied Arts, Business, Marketing
• Eighty Year Old Fonts - Entrepreneurship, graphic design (applied arts)
• the BCRS - Web Design, Marketing & Business - e-commerce, Marketing, web design (applied arts) and its related post the BCRS presentation is complete (ahhhh) - e-commerce, Gulf Beaches, Marketing, web design (applied arts)
   Yesterday Roza Otunbayeva was inaugurated as president of Kyrgyzstan, becoming the first female head of state in central Asia. I have since heard from a friend within Russia on this. Honoring our own long held détente he resisted taking position, and I was warmed that he, too, was hoping for the best for the people of the region. No surprise, and always a nice confirmation. Still, I imagine there is more to come.
   I trumped my own definition for Applied Arts the other day, acknowledging that culinary indeed qualifies (nonetheless, it is unique among the rest). It should perhaps be noted that I’m fully aware that there are derivatives I had not outright mentioned. An example of this is Architecture. I do mention CAD artists, yet chose Interior Designers as the example. I also want to note that I ignored the written arts wholesale. The range of expression covers everything (from poetry to ad copy to a myriad of aspects beyond screenplays for cinema and broadcast). So, while specifics of research will focus on the applied visual arts, I herewith acknowledge large exceptions for which abstractions may be translate-able but likely will not be addressed directly. By the way, I consider fireworks a craft.
   The Font post is, so far, the only one that has garnered a comment. So far the only way I’ve found to show the comments doesn’t make sense; it’s away from the original and visually distracting. There are a few mechanics I’ll pursue here; this foremost. Thank you, Matthew, for the contribution!
   The BCRS had garnered, inspired by our good work, tens of thousands in grant money while we worked on the project. That was critical to spare it from expiring this September. I’ve since learned that the site is now in line (again, in no small measure because of our effort) for a grant exceeding one million. I know my teammates all received “A’s” for the class; I received a metric of 500 of 500. Perfection rarely happens, so I’m sharing it.
   That catches me up for now – may your fireworks be lit by someone else, and be inspiring!

What's a Slactivist?

For Young Adults, Activism Can Be Hitting 'Like' on Facebook, but Brands Can Use This to Their Advantage by Ann Marie Kerwin – Copyright © 2010 Crain Communications (publisher); Advertising Age - Published: June 28, 2010 – retrieved from http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=144686

   Great article that both confirms and extends what marketing is currently exploring as a base means of what works in e-commerce. Turns out, the movement begun near a decade ago in Sales/Salesmanship (academic) writings that had nothing to do with the internet seem to find currency, along with all the latest writings, that the future of sales is relational.

   Kerwin's ten ways to reach the youth includes all manner of gestures just used in the BCRS project: involve the audience, remind them of the difference they make, make it easy, make it social, etc.

   My only disagreement, a gentle one, is that it seems to me the youth simply punctuates what the rest of the world is up to; i. e., while there may be no other way to have an effective broad brushstroke with that generation, this approach is increasingly applicable to basically everyone.