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Why Writing Has Become Content Creation

  The Many Voices of Humanity Writing comes to shore in a rush of the tide and then subsides to a restful point before returning  Photo by Mackenzie Andersen Intro This is a short piece I published on Medium about writing, only today it isn't called writing, it is called content creation. The distinction is that content creation is the voice of many people, not just the traditional professional author. Its quite fascinating to absorb all kinds of voices from all over the world and absorb ones self into the meaning of humanity itself.  Since Andersen Design began in 1962, it has always done its own catalogs and marketing. When we are properly funded with a facility and a staff, I look forward to developing a content management team filled with many voices. Andersen Design has a long tradition of recognizing raw talent and on the job training. Please sign up for our mailing list and indicate your level of interest here. photo by Mackenzie Andersen A question was posed in a ...

Yes We Can! The SBIR and STTR Grants for American Small Business

  Does economic development rule the people, or serve the people? Let Freedom Ring! photo by Yves Monrique-unsplash In the 1980’s when Burton A Weisbrod first published  The NonProfit Economy , he wrote that the US economy was composed of three sectors, public, private, and nonprofit, intended to operate independently, each filling a unique function, which the others did not, but in the 1980’s, they were already merging and adapting in ways not ethically clean. In 1997 Weisbrod published a paper titled  The future of the nonprofit sector: Its entwining with private enterprise and government . Today In Maine the entwining is wide, deep and complete, concentrating power in the interests of a small circle of associates wielding wealth redistribution as it’s instrument, branding itself as networking and celebratory public private relationships. The conflation of the public, private, and non-profit sectors is a top down system. over riding local power where in public and priva...

Mackenzie Andersen's Tufted Titmouse Crowd Funding Pre-Launch Sign UP

This is a video for a yet to be launched crowd funding project. SIGN UP HERE! TWEET THIS PLEASE !   http://goo.gl/aiF0cF This is beginning of our Pre- Launch Phase   in which I will be collecting email addresses of those interested in supporting our project. The goal is to have strong launch reaching a good portion of one's goal in the first few days. This project is to raise $3000.00 to have the mold for my tufted titmouse sculpture created by an outside production company. The project is also a Prelude to Andersen Studio's Business Re-Start Crowd Funding series. Andersen Studio needs to raise in the neighborhood of $300,000.00. Although we would like to start working with other American slip casting productions to have our line produced, We also need a local production studio. We are currently doing production in the space intended to be our design studio. The goal of the Andersen Studio- Design crowdfunding series is to bring about the circumstance in w...