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A Conversation with Pam Miklavcic of The Davies Project Mission Control #15

In this episode of Mission Control, Paul has a conversation with Pam Miklavcic, the executive director of The Davies Project. They talk about starting a non-profit from the kitchen table, why she chose kids as the community they serve, and the benefits of starting a non-profit in the Lansing community.

The mission of The Davies Project is to connect families to resources and the community by providing reliable transportation for seriously ill children and pregnant women to essential healthcare.

For more on The Davies Project: https://thedaviesproject.org/

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If you are interested in being a guest or if you would like to hear the story of a non-profit leader that you know, please connect with us at missioncontrol@unodeuce.com

By |July 13th, 2022|Categories: Blog|4 Comments

A Conversation with Ozay Moore of All of the Above Hip Hop Academy Mission Control #14

In this episode of Mission Control the conversation with Ozay Moore executive director of All of the Above Hip Hop Academy revolves around developing a first-time non-profit, gaining traction and legitimacy, and creating a legacy. All of the Above Hip Hop Academy is a non-profit organization made up of artists, educators, and advocates that mentor youth, support artistic expression and serve communities as a Hip Hop Cultural resource for the purpose of youth development. For more on All of the Above Hip Hop Academy: https://www.alloftheabovehiphop.org/ Subscribe to Mission Control on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mission-control/id1541380912 If you are interested in being a guest or if you would like to hear the story of a non-profit leader that you know, please connect with us at missioncontrol@unodeuce.com

By |July 12th, 2022|Categories: Blog|6 Comments

CLIENT STORY – Impression 5 – Thank You Sponsors

In this video, we had all hands on deck to capture the kickoff event for Impression 5’s 50th Anniversary celebration. However, the event and the organization would not exist in their current form without all of the wonderful sponsors who have joined in with the Impression 5 mission. This is a dedication to them. For more information on Impression5 and its 50th Anniversary activities, go to: https://impression5.org/home

By |July 7th, 2022|Categories: Blog|11 Comments

Stretches, Elders, Coalitions, Tie Die, and a ReStore UnoDeuce Client Stories for June

We take a look at what client stories were launched in June. We start out with some outdoor stretches with Kristen of Fahrenheit Massage. Next, we learn about the new Capital Hippie store for the Faces and Places video series for Downtown Lansing, Inc. James and Josh from Habitat for Humanity take another trip for the ReStore Roadshow. Elder Law of Michigan teaches us more about the Elder Justice Multidisciplinary Teams. The Clinton Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition breaks down what some of their acronyms mean in a clever animated video.

The whole videos of each of these stories can be found on our Vimeo channel. https://vimeo.com/unodeuce

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Every organization has a story. Do you have the right storyteller? UnoDeuce is a storytelling agency that uses video to document the why of non-profit organizations and socially responsible small businesses and share how they make a positive impact on their community. We do this a variety of video based solutions for brand awareness, donor cultivation, training, fundraising and promotions. UnoDeuce Multimedia. One Company. Twice the Possibilities.

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By |July 6th, 2022|Categories: Blog, Client Story|2 Comments

Guest Blog: Technological Trends That Will Define This Decade

The world of technology has changed beyond description in the previous decade. Consider the start of the year 2009. You grew up before the iPad, Uber, and even Instagram. Fitness trackers were, in essence, pedometers. “If the smartphone looks to be more ofa slow mobile, hang in there,” Wired encouraged consumers in 2010. The fourth generation of wireless technology promises superfast data transmission speeds.” You somehow avoided asking Alexa to switch on the lights or check the weather until at minimum 2014. The same year, Slack emerged, replacing email as the major way of team collaboration.
Technology advances quickly, and the advances achieved in the previous decade have altered the world as we once knew it. Social media has had a massive influence on communication, connectivity, sales, and marketing all around the world. Smartphones have become actual commodities. Ecommerce has become an integral aspect of daily life.
The following decade appears to be moving much quicker. So, here’s a quick rundown of seven significant technology advances that will shape how we live, work, and communicate in the 2020s.
From the Crypto world to Outsourced IT Support, we’ll try to cover everything.

AI and machine learning

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will continue to penetrate and radically affect our world as their capabilities to enable computers to learn and behave intelligently and independently improve. These technologies, which are now widespread in everyday apps and gadgets such as Alexa and Siri, will gradually pervade everything from manufacturing to distribution, cybersecurity, and data analytics. Chatbots, customer recommendation engines, marketing tools, and other applications will increasingly rely on AI and ML technology to automate essential operations and assist organizations in making better decisions in industries such as retail and eCommerce.
Indeed, many experts and observers feel that AI and machine learning will be the most important technological trends of the next decade, creating the foundation for many of the other technologies on this list. However, a word of caution is in order. Companies must be cognizant of their responsibility to do so when they train robots to handle increasing amounts of decision-making. Leaders and developers must keep digital ethics at the forefront of their minds as they digitally reshape our environment.

Making Money Using Cryptocurrency

After hearing all of the buzz and success stories, you have finally decided to attempt investing in cryptocurrency so that you may finally realize your target of having your narrative to tell. A prosperity and riches tale that may one day enable you to develop into larger and more lucrative company concepts to propel you ahead. Everyone attempts to benefit from crypto investments, some more steady than others, such as mining, but some more spectacular and dynamic with the rise and decline of crypto prices.
However, not everyone has a success story to share; some quit before even trying due to a lack of details, some give up after making investments and failing, and some lose millions so that they do not know the process and which are the best ways to make money with crypto after they have already made a profit in their Bitcoin Wallet. If not properly understood, the value of this Bitcoin Wallet may just fade into oblivion and pursue a downward route of loss rather than generating genuine cash from crypto. That is why you must adhere to one, if not many, of the greatest strategies to generate revenue with cryptocurrency in 2022.
There are several methods to make money with cryptocurrencies, all of which need a great deal of focus and commitment. You may gain money by being lucky a few times or making intelligent decisions that influence you both in the short and long run. The crypto industry is currently expanding and providing several options, with many new currencies and a shopping host of crypto purchasing platforms and apps. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, ElonGate, Stellar, Tether, Shiba, and other cryptocurrencies are among them. Ethereum, Coinbase, and Robinhood are among crypto purchasing services that are relatively simple to use, making it straightforward to get started in all of these markets.
When it comes to trying to gain money from cryptocurrencies, you must follow particular tactics, which are not as straightforward as you may assume. They are not confined to commercial terms. These techniques may involve investing or trading in the crypto exchange market, lending coins to the system or other users, or mining and participating in the blockchain system to get incentives for each job performed inside the system. Some strategies may include: investing in a coin while analyzing the market and which may vary from profit to loss, trading with other coins that have higher values and can make you a small but consistent profit, staking, and lending,which may require more knowledge and patience, mining, and even airdrops and forks that may be distributed to raise awareness or create a larger user base for a project.
Some strategies may include: investing in a coin while analyzing the market and which may vary from profit to loss, trading with other coins that have higher values and can make you a small but consistent profit, staking, and lending, which may require more knowledge and patience, mining, and even airdrops and forks that may be distributed to spread awareness or create a larger user base for a project.
It’s worth noting that you should exercise extreme caution while selling cryptocurrency and there are a lot of fraudsters and bots out there currently stealing data. To address this issue, anti-scam and bot protection solutions are being devised.

A bonus tip: Mining would be another method to start making money with cryptocurrency. There are several mined alternatives available, one of which is gas mining (check this out for more).

Prescriptive Analytics and Big

DataConsumers and organizations will continue to create an increasing amount of data as they engage online. This is the age of big data, and data is the new oil. Companies may capture, clean, process, and analyze tremendous volumes of data using current tools to acquire enormously valuable insights into consumer behavior and corporate operations –and hence make smarter decisions that promote efficiency and profitability. AI and machine learning-powered solutions will continue to take over many of these operations, converting data from critical corporate applications like cloud ERP systems into actionable suggestions.

IoT

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the expanding number of internet-connected smart items and gadgets. Everything will soon be connected to everything, from smart speakers, thermostats, and light bulbs in the house to automobiles on the road, planes in the sky, concrete in our buildings, and sensors in machinery and equipment. This will accelerate the expansion of big data and AI, give rise to the machine economy, and drive content management and eCommerce models toward headless commerce architecture.

Creating a Next-Generation Customer Support Experience

Consider the possibility of tracking staff navigation and assistance patterns across company apps in the future. Consider the possibility of knowing a user is going to have a problem before they do, or of intervening in the program prior to the issue occurring.

This is the future of technological assistance, and it is already available.
Businesses can now know where their software issues and IT requests are coming from and address them at the source thanks to new support experience layer technologies. This is made possible not just by providing consumers with in-app assistance that eliminates the need for context switching, but also by allowing enterprises to access end-to-end platform data that they previously could not.

Assume 1,000 employees at a company use an HR service to arrange vacations, and 10% of them submit a support issue. Rather than accepting this, a support experience layer enables the identification of the root cause of the issue or difficulties and the provision of assistance at the source.

Cloud Computing

It’s no secret that the COVID-19 emergency has hastened cloud adoption by businesses all across the world. Because organizations have to change to remote working methods virtually overnight, the cloud has been critical in guaranteeing business continuity. Cloud-based ERP systems, CRM systems, communication, productivity, and data and analytics technologies have all saved thousands of businesses across the world.

This pattern is likely to persist. According to a recent study of 250 IT leaders from around the world, 82 percent indicated they increased cloud usage in reaction to the epidemic, and 66 percent said this will continue in the future –not only after the crisis is gone. Gartner data support these assertions, with worldwide public cloud services end-user expenditure expected to rise over the next 24 months.

5G

The fifth generation of cellular network technology will change the way we use the internet and connect to it. Whereas 4G gives average speeds of around 45Mbps, 5G aspires for 1 Gbps (1,000 Mbps).  5G will be critical for the development of autonomous cars, allowing these machines to interact with one another as well as read real-time maps and traffic data. It will also be useful in many fields of healthcare, including telemedicine, remote surgery, real-time patient monitoring via wearable devices, and uploading big medical information. Manufacturing, retail, logistics, and other industries will profit from the ultrafast connection provided by 5G, as will consumers’ internet download, browsing, and streaming experiences.The Spatial Web and Augmented RealityImmersive digital experiences, such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR), will pervade the environment well into the 2020s. We can anticipate the world around us to come to life with data we can see and interact with as 5G global networks, AI and ML technology, and IoT technologies develop and combine in the coming years, altering everything from retail to marketing to education. This is the spatial Web, where actual, tangible things, such as devices, objects, and people, are linked rather than simply websites.

Retailers are already using Spatial Web technology to allow consumers to virtually try on clothing and make-up before purchasing them or to see how a new piece of furniture might appear in their homes. Throughout the decade, more and more applications for augmented reality and Spatial Web technologies will emerge.

Free and Open Source Software

Although it is the software industry’s unsung hero, open source has been, is, and will continue to be vital to corporate software, as well as IoT and AI. As businesses around the world attempt to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives, they will want software that is as adaptable, powerful, and secure as it is cost-effective, customizable, and inventive. These boxes are checked by open source software, not proprietary software.

Indeed, in a recent Red Hat study of 950 global IT professionals, 95% stated that open source was strategically vital to their organization’s entire enterprise infrastructure software strategy. As a result, 77 percent anticipate boosting usage in the next twelve months, and although the use of proprietary software is declining, corporate open source software utilization is rapidly increasing.

Zo Hartley is a software developer with 6 years of experience in the industry working with Fortune 500 Companies.

By |July 5th, 2022|Categories: Blog|8 Comments

A Conversation with Ozay Moore of All of the Above Hip Hop Academy Mission Control #14

In this episode of Mission Control the conversation with Ozay Moore executive director of All of the Above Hip Hop Academy revolves around developing a first-time non-profit, gaining traction and legitimacy, and creating a legacy. All of the Above Hip Hop Academy is a non-profit organization made up of artists, educators, and advocates that mentor youth, support artistic expression and serve communities as a Hip Hop Cultural resource for the purpose of youth development. For more on All of the Above Hip Hop Academy: https://www.alloftheabovehiphop.org/ Subscribe to Mission Control on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mission-control/id1541380912 If you are interested in being a guest or if you would like to hear the story of a non-profit leader that you know, please connect with us at missioncontrol@unodeuce.com

By |June 29th, 2022|Categories: Blog|4 Comments

Media Club Episode 12 – Lightyear, Mrs. Maisel, The Experiment

Join us as Nick talks about Lightyear, James explores The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Paul talks about ‘yet another podcast, this one just ended its run and is called The Experiment. Also, we explore projects for Impression Five Science Center and Downtown Lansing Inc. and then Paul answers a question he got concerning the UnoDeuce production process. If you have any questions concerning the video that you’d like us to answer, please send us an email to info@unodeuce.com with the subject being Media Club question or you can join us on-air for the next one on Thursdays at noon!

By |June 27th, 2022|Categories: Blog|2 Comments
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