Still in NY....new fundraising idea

Not so long ago, I thought of a new idea to raise funds. I hope there is a lot of interest.

My post on my new fundraising activity....

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My fundraising continues. Please support me guys!!

This time, I am offering to assist with something you can do but probably don't have the time to do it..... creating calendars or photo books from your photos (online/social media photos or other photos).

I created two calendars at Walgreens recently & spent quite a bit of time trying various (standard or out-of-the-box) options so that I get a certain look and feel. The extra time I spent paid off -- I was thrilled with the result! It reminded me of my calendar design. And, I did not have to pay for "extras" although it looked like I included extras/add-ons.

The wall calendar at Walgreens starts at $19.99. The desk calendar starts at $9.99. If you send me your photos or direct me to your photos, I can build a calendar for you (using Walgreen's system) for a small fee ($5?). You could specify the theme for your calendar, maybe a specific trip/vacation or recipes/food.

Folks in New York could probably pay me in cash....we will have to work something out. I could use my paypal account for other payments.

Please think about and let me know. I hope you order something!

My email address: moorefo1@gmail.com.

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Interesting topic

My new course - Enterprise Network Architecture - is really interesting so far. I like the presentations (the course reminds me of the database course because of the presentations). It is the third week and I am working on my second presentation - not the usual assignments.

In week 1, one of the required readings was:
Making Virtue of Necessity: The Role of Team Climate for Innovation in Resource-Constrained Innovation Projects
By Matthias Weiss, Martin Hoegl, and Michael Gibbert
This paper "introduced me" to a new, interesting topic: innovation (& I will add productivity) in a low-resource environment - basically, performance when there is insufficient funding / less resources than typically necessary for high performance. This is my life right now. I have to produce a lot with very little....

Maybe I can make a difference or come up with new ideas in this area. I remember the issues and decisions I made when planning My Research Summary website/page. I ended up with a "basic" website/page (https://fahmeenaodettaresearchsummary.tumblr.com/) and plans to have a more complex website/page. I like the basic page a lot - it would be excellent for someone with limited resources. It has some strengths and advantages. One is the news summary landing page - the idea: http://moorefo1personal77.blogspot.com/2017/04/featured-papers.html. Another is the separate pages for certain areas that receive separate funding - I can provide a url that makes sense to organizations/sponsors. However, the basic page is not the very best design/organization (best of breed). It would be better to have my papers/research all in one place and tagged appropriately so that I can look at them this way and that - "pull" papers on specific topics, such as decision-making, then strategy (subset of decision-making as well as strategy in other areas), and so on. I started a project to look into using StumbleUpon to do just this: http://moorefo1personal77.blogspot.com/2017/04/course-starts-today.html.I have to read more on the low-resource topic.


When I first started down the research path, I thought I would struggle to find interesting topics/research areas (that are close/dear to me and/or I would enjoy). Turns out that there are a lot of areas: Customer-focused research (see my blog for this topic: http://moorefo1customerfocus.blogspot.com/ ), design & usability (see my design blog: http://moorefo1designresearch.blogspot.com/ ), typologies & taxonomies, and so on.

Design competitions

I am noticing a lot of design competitions (After noticing several, I ran a search in Twitter to see what was out there. There are a lot!)

Entering/participating in a few design competitions should be fun. Hopefully, time will permit....

(Info on this competition: Link - A' Design Award and Competition)

This reminds me of my bus stop sign design:

And this reminds me of fliers I worked on for Toastmasters so long ago:

The fliers were "basic."