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Protect All North Carolina Families built a movement against Amendment One. In 2012 North Carolina became the 31st state to consider a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.The language on the ballot read: “Constitutional amendment to provide that marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal
Identity Design
Crafting a visual symbol to turn supporters into activists in the campaign to defeat Amendment One.The Coalition to Protect ALL North Carolina Families united to defeat a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. We partnered with them in a 5-month campaign, creating a visual identity system that served as
Research
NCDOT is engaging citizens to improve government — the open source way.New Kind partnered with the Communications Office of the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) to find new ways for the department to engage with its “customers”—the citizens of North Carolina. Together, we designed and implemented three collaborative
Strategy
New Kind is helping Innovate Raleigh catalyze innovation in our city.Innovate Raleigh is a partnership between NC State University, the City of Raleigh, Raleigh Economic Development, Wake County Economic Development, and the Downtown Raleigh Alliance. Its community is full of smart and passionate people working together toward a common
Identity Design
A visually dynamic report synthesized the ideas and spirit of Innovate Raleigh’s inaugural Summit.The Innovate Raleigh summit was full of lively conversations among passionate members of the Raleigh community. Throughout the day, we captured these ideas visually through mindmaps, photography, and video. Remote participants joined the Summit through
Company Culture
Yesterday, I gave a presentation on Designing A Year with the AIGA Hampton Roads chapter at Old Dominion University. Thanks for having me, I had a blast. A description of the talk below: Here it is on SlideShare, and here's a version with speaker notes (sorry SlideShare Keynote
Company Culture
Dave has worked to build communities throughout his career, from nonprofit global health organizations to building communities for political campaigns. At New Kind, Dave will be our Director of Community Dynamics. Community dynamics is about how and what makes communities work. Dave is an expert at applying principles that have
Brand Community
Information overload is a hot topic as new applications and social services seem to launch every single day. Many of them promise to deal with some form of overload but often I find that they just add another "to do" to my list. Email is one primary service
Company Culture
We are operating in the social era, where groups of people can create powerful change. Check out New Kind's thinking on how to thrive.Thank you to the National Council on International Visitors for inviting New Kind to speak at the 2012 NCIV Southern Regional Meeting! The NCIV
Brand Community
A few weeks ago I taught at the 2012 Young Advocates Institute on utilizing social media to speak out, speak up and impact change in local communities. The YAI crowd was comprised largely of 16 and 17 year old students from North Carolina.As is often the case with these
Brand Community
I've spent quite a bit of time over the past few years discussing how organizations can more effectively engage with the communities to which they belong. And one of the things I often mention is the role of a community ambassador—a person who represents the organization or
Leadership
This morning, we published the final report from the Management 2.0 Hackathon on the Management Innovation Exchange website. You can read Jonathan Opp and my blog post announcing it here. Or download the report directly as a PDF here. This was a fun process. Since beginning in November of