Truly Moved!

Jul 202010

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The experiences the work at ADMSP has afforded me this week truly pulled my
heart strings.

In addition to all the artists who are getting their art out to the world, there are just as many
philanthropists and volunteers who are selflessly trying to help make
the world better – one person at a time.

With the horrible catastrophe of the Gulf Oil Spill, many are taking a proactive approach and are doing their
part to minimize the effects of the spill. More surprisingly still, is
how social media has taken the place of the old fashion “names on a
clipboard” method to taking a stand.

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Because ADMSP will have philanthropy efforts within the park, learning about the different ways people are
making a difference will help ADMSP make positive changes in our
community.

Those of you who contemplate the state of the world and feel overwhelmed with the issues, this week I learned
that even one person can move a whole nation if you propose it! Little
efforts make big differences!

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Altos Del Mar Sculpture Park is a labor of love selflessly designed and created in the hopes that it will
brighten the lives of the Miami Beach community and beyond.

Philanthropy and volunteerism are important elements to living a happy and fulfilling life. Stepping out
of our little space and sincerely extending a helping hand to a cause or
a person builds you as a person as well put your life into proper
perspective. It is very easy at times to drown in a glass
of water. When you go out into the world, even if the “world” is the
elderly neighbor down the street, all of a sudden that
promotion that didn’t come through, unexpected pay cut, late light bill,
or any of life’s little problem, soon fades and seems manageable.

Take a hint from these amazing kids!

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The City of Miami Beach’s Historic Preservation Board, on July 12, 2010, received Altos Del Mar Sculpture Park’s (ADMSP) Landscape and Preliminary Plans.

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Jul 152010

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Miami Beach’s City Manager, Jorge M. Gonzalez, approved the preliminary plans on May 13, 2010 after review with all of the pertinent city staff. See:

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“With the submittal to the HPB of the Landscape and Preliminary Plans, we are now at our next step in our journey to make this dream come true”, said Marlene Saile, Esq, President and CEO of ADMSP.

With this submittal, ADMSP has included full landscape design plans that were created by Orlando Comas A.S.L.A., Landscape Architect. See:

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The next steps are:

1. A neighborhoods meeting for the North Beach Community to give us their input on the landscape plans on August 5th, 2010; and 2. A HPB meeting to obtain the approval from the HPB of the landscape plans on August 10th, 2010.

“ADMSP would like to thank Jorge M. Gonzalez, the City Staff, the members of the HPB, Les Beilinson, Orlando Comas and everyone else involved for all of your priceless contributions to the collective effort to achieve yet another milestone in ADMSP’s development towards achieving its mission”, said Peter Saile chairman of ADMSP.

The Weird and Wonderful World of Art!

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Jul 142010

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Art and artists are amazing. Every day while working on my plan here at ADMSP headquarters, I find new and inspiring ways people are finding to express themselves. One genre in particular that caught my eye was featured in Life Magazine Onlineshowcasing the most wonderful, weird and most modern sculptures.

In order to steady my heart rate after viewing some of these jarring and neck-jerking images, I headed off to find more in hopes to come across some that can top what Life Magazine featured. On YouTube, I found this great little montage of a light embedded on a sculpture.

In my work this week, I found myself in awe at all the ways people are finding in order to give their work an edge. More than that, I was impressed at how so many are not allowing themselves to be limited and are exploiting every available resource in order to get their art out there.

We at ADMSP.org we welcome all artists and are eager to find new talent in unlikely places. Despite professional opinions and views on what is “art” and what is “good art,” I find all forms of expression worthwhile and meaningful.

Everybody who sets out to create is expressing something that is very relevant and personal to them. Because so much of the artist goes into the piece, I respect and admire all works of art, even if its meaning eludes me.

This week I gained a new found appreciation for this broad and welcoming form of expression known as sculpture art and hope I can relay that passion to all of you through ADMSP!

Get “Linked In”!

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Jul 072010

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Professionals beware! ADMSP is on LinkedIN! Well, we always have been but I’m excited about it because of the fact that it has been incorporated into my Campaign.

What is LinkedIN?

For those of you who are unaware of what LinkedIN is and would like to know, let me first begin by welcoming you back from under the rock you’ve been under.

Now that you have rejoined civilization, allow me to fill you in on some of the basic things that have gone down since you’ve been gone:

Barack Obama is now president.

Larry King retires from Larry King LIVE!

Movies are now in 3D…I know, MEGA cool!

The FIFA World Cup is in progress and…

I turned 27 and LinkedIN has become the leading site for professionals to come and network.

It is important to mention the significance of LinkedIN in a blog because of its flexibility. The site can make virtually anyone look like a blue collar professional in his/her field by using the array of applications and features the site offers.

Anyone from a New York hot dog vendor to Apple exec designing the I Phone 4 can benefit from being “linked in” LinkedIN.

Take a look at the site’s impact in the video below from the geniuses at The Common Craft Show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pXWrHN0elg

The key thing is how the site is helping me position myself as an expert in my Social Media Creations field within ADMSP. Due toADMSP’s campaign to create awareness and build an audience, I am using LinkedIN as means to connect with art curators, lovers and dealers, philanthropists who are promoting their own companies/non profits, environmentalists, volunteers, and even musicians and event planners. All of these groups (and many more) have something in common with ADMSP and I am reaching out to them viaLinkedIN.

On my LinkedIN profile, I have tweaked and searched for ways to attract these groups as well as present myself and ADMSPeffectively. These methods are so people can find me when searching any of the areas ADMSP will feature.

Every week I will work on improving my profile and learning LinkedIN inside and out. I look forward to sharing all these cool features with you and hope to catch you on LinkedIN soon!

BREAKING NEWS: Major Milestone for ADMSP!

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Jun 022010

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The City of Miami Beach has officially signed and approved the preliminary plans submitted on January 15th, 2010 by ADMSP. The preliminary plans included full-color renderings and highly detailed drawings of the site plan by Les Beilinson from Beilinson Gomez Architects.

Here are more renderings to look at…

Miami Beach’s City Manager, Jorge M. Gonzalez, approved the preliminary plans on May 13, 2010 after review with all of the pertinent city staff. These plans now reflect the city’s input such as the sleek logo sculpture on Collins and a modern curved pergola.

Within the plans, the city manager got a very early peek of what the park lay-out will look like. Beautiful, high detail, full color renderings were included illustrating the Butterfly Vivarium, the Entrance Pavilion, the Tree Allées, the Lawn and the Pergola among others. The city’s observations also mentioned providing more room for the Tree Allées to grow and a re-oriented Pavilion and parking lot to better accommodate pedestrians. Gonzalez has been the city manager since August 2000 and has now etched his name in history by approving the plans.

ADMSP is now allowed to move on to the next phase of the project! The next step will be submittal to the Historic Preservation Board. In this submittal, ADMSP must include full landscape design plans that will be created by Orlando Comas A.S.L.A., Landscape Architect.

Comas, a brilliant and highly creative visionary, will design the landscape plans that will go the Historic Preservation Board pro bono. Currently he is one of South Florida’s best kept secrets in creating lush, tropical oasis in private residences, resorts, and parks. He has graciously joined the ADMSP team to prepare these plans that have a 60-day deadline from the time the Preliminary Plans were approved or July 12, 2010.

Comas is a natural creating these enchanting and soothing outdoor areas and who will put into effect ArquitectonicaGEO’s landscape design concept into the current preliminary plans that Miami Beach is a barrier island formed by an accumulation of sediment on limestone shoals and that the property is ocean front property within the urban context of the North Beach community.

ADMSP is naturally divided into natural rooms: the Dunefield, the Maritime Garden, the Tree Allées and the Lawn. The sculpture rooms have different colored meandering paths where the sculptures are exhibited which the user can navigate. At the center is the lawn where the community programs will take place. At the entrance the park will feature admsp’s logo as a “jungle gym”. A living, touchable, playful sculpture for all that will be commissioned by ADMSP.

Comas will now choose the trees for the Tree Allées, the maritime planting palette for the Maritime Garden, the grass for the Lawn, the dunes and their coastal plantings for the Dunefield.

In addition he will choose the recycled materials that will become the pathways using recyclable sustainable landscaping materials creating a variety of display areas for the sculptures. These surfaces protect high traffic areas from foot traffic, and reduce irrigation demands. The plans will also include the design of state of the art public amenities.

The Preliminary Plans are the new vision of the ADMSP team and the city. Many talented and well-established professionals, entrepreneurs, community leaders and activists have joined together in the hopes to bring ADMSP to fruition in the very near future. In their common objective, a positive and prosperous synergy has been very fortunate to occur and the park’s design and structure has been in very caring hands.

The plans are actually the†closest visual to the actual lay out of the space anyone has seen thus far. For anyone who has driven by 75th through 77th Streets on Collins Avenue, will clearly see what a make over ADMSP will be to the area by looking at the preliminary plans.

ADMSP would like to thank Jorge M. Gonzalez, the City Staff, Les Beilinson, and everyone else involved (you know who you are!) in the collective effort to achieve yet another milestone in its development towards achieving its mission: THANK YOU!

ADMSP will build the first sculpture park of its kind in the world, as it will feature:

1) FREE changing exhibitions of sculpture from established artists from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

2) FREE community art classes, fitness and entertainment.

3) 365 days per year in the North Beach section of Miami Beach.

ADMSP will transform North Beach into a community, cultural, tourism and travel destination elevating the quality of life and economy for all.

Since its inception in 2004, ADMSP has been creating the environmental conditions that will lead to better social and economic circumstances in North Beach with its mission to build a place that although at first glance is a landscaped gallery space, upon further inspection it reveals itself as an important community installation with cultural, social and economic implications that extend well beyond the sculptures and the traditional museum audiences- for EVERYONE!

In the book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell postulates the “Power of Context” in that “Epidemics are sensitive to the conditions and circumstances of the times and places in which they occur” and how they lead to social, cultural, community transformations that are positive in nature.

The ADMSP project is the perfect opportunity to observe the transformation of an impoverished and crime-ridden community, by changing the social landscape of North Beach in Miami Beach, into a thriving community rich with community and social programs.

While ADMSP waited for the city’s decision, it embarked on its second social media campaign aimed at creating awareness about ADMSP and its mission. ADMSP’s newest campaign set to begin on June 1st, 2010 will be happily called: “This is Focus Focus (not Hocus Pocus)!” The new campaign will concentrate on filtering and fine-tuning all the applications and tools available through all the social media platforms to deliver a clear, concise message. ADMSP is set to open on November 15, 2011.

See the Preliminary Plans video here.

FeedBURNER: A Google Analytics Rite of Passage

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May 102010

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Dear Friends,

If one aspect of my entire job at ADMSP is the most challenging, it would be understanding site analytics and how to improve it.

Overall, Google Analytics and all the other site tracking tools that tell a site owner all the stats he or she needs to know in order to make their site traffic increase has always been what has caused me the most struggle.

Additionally the concepts associated with Feed, RSS and all the other methods of sharing are hard for me to grasp. This week I’ve had to face Feedburner head on and I am burned out! Feedburner (like the rest of the world) has been recently purchased by Google. For all sites owned by Google, implementing Feedburner is actually rather easy, it’s the ones not owned by Google that can cause the delays!

But to tell that story I have to start at the beginning. The purpose of Feedburner is to allow your readers to subscribe to your blog through RSS. RSS is Real Simple Syndication and it allows readers to subscribe to your blog and/or site as well as allow other sites to use your content on theirs while generating traffic back to yours. Where Feedburner and RSS differ is exactly what makes Feedburner so useful and necessary to learn. Feedburner allows the blog/site owner to track who is reading/visiting your site, what exactly they are using, amount of clicks and what feeds are most popular. Having this information allows you to post more of the popular feeds and eliminate the posts that get little or no feeds at all.

The easy part was one that was already done. Our Social Media Analytics guru, Yari Velez and her talented successor, Rinita Sen, have already included my blogs on feedburner.com. Through Feedburner’s actual site, you can see all the stats, subscribers and stats. The part where the Feedburner widgets and and chicklets are discussed is a whole other story.

Feedburner has tabs along the top of its home page. Clicking on each tab takes you to those specific Feedburner features that you can implement on each one of your sites. This can be a bit daunting, as some sites are harder to maneuver than others. Many times, HTML codes are provided in order to embed them on your individual sites for the tracking of Feedburner subscriptions. One particular site not cooperating at the moment is ADMSP’s Posterous.

The Feedburner “chicklet” just fails to appear….so far!

Learning any new application requires time and patience. At certain points, I grunted my way through tech articles that were written over my head. Others, I laughed at how overwhelmed I felt with an area that is so manageable. Nothing is more gratifying than reaching your very own “Eureka!” moment and seeing it come together. Learning a new trade you have to be kind to yourself and allow yourself the time to understand the topic, step away from the challenge to refresh yourself when your feeling too stressed, and come back when you’re more at ease.

Feedburner and I are far from over! There are many tabs to explore and conquer, many widgets and “chicklets” to embed, and a lot more readers out there to entice. Until then, we learn, we “‘Burn,” and we Google!

The Road to Greatness!

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May 052010

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Dear Friends,

I must say…what a week! The funny, unexpected turns life gives you from time to time can really make you dizzy! I found myself at a scary professional crossroads earlier this week and what came with it was enough to make anyone scream out loud alone in their car!

By this time Wednesday, let’s just say I’ll be having an extra long Cinco de Mayo Happy Hour! As surprising as life is, so are blogs. The more I find, the more I learn that there really is no formula or topic that ensures success. This is mainly because of the largest platform to ever exist: the Internet also holds the largest audience: the world!

As big as the world is, even bigger are the interests and passions of every single individual. Within every person there exists at least three more with different interests and personalities that are often the ones that make us the unique characters we all are! It may sound as if I suffer from multiple-personality disorder, and believe me depending on the day, I would agree, but mostly it’s about the sides of ourselves that we are shy to let out, feel won’t be accepted, or just haven’t reached a point where we are happy with it. It is those sides that fuel blogs everyday. All of those colorful personalities come online as themselves or an alias and search, search and search. Some search for companionship, some search for a voice, some search for research and others search for fun.

Amidst all the topics and sites, there is BlogPulse. BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs. BlogPulse applies machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs. BlogPulse is a blog search engine that also analyzes and reports on daily activity in the blogosphere.

The cool thing about BlogPulse is that it does the work for you. After you have submitted your blog URL, the site tracks the trends and reports back to you on what’s hot and what’s not in the “world of blogs.” BlogPulse is kind of a miracle if you will. With all the tools needed to make a blog grow, BlogPulse offers all in one. It can ensure our blog is represented, it allows you to access their search engine to see who is talking about what, tracks featured trends to tell you what topics will burn out quickly like a match or gradually like carbon and it tracks conversations! The conversation tracker maps the flow of the conversation on specific topics across the blogosphere. This neat little invention can help the blogger, AKA your truly, tailor entries to meet the interests of a large group of people.

Lucky for me ADMSP is pretty broad. I’m sure I will have no problem gearing it towards those popular trends appearing all over the World Wide Web! In the meantime friends, stay grounded!

ADMSP and Google Hot Trends: Expanding Horizons

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Apr 272010

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Dear Friends,

A quick way to know what exactly people are searching for at any given time is to search the list of top searches each search engine displays. Even though all search engines have a list of their own, there is no denying that Google currently dominates the World Wide Web.

For the virtual empire, the list is called Google Hot Trends. The Google Hot Trend List reflects what keywords people are searching for on a daily basis all around the world. Considering how many topics are searched at any given moment throughout the world, it is easy to admire the relevancy all the 20 Hot Trend-ers have achieved. Take Stephen Hawking, for example, his recent news conference in which he stated its best that E.T. stays home has earned him the number 5 spot on the list. His show, “Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking,” placed 14 and Stephen Hawking, the man, is at number 17.

Anyone who is running a site, promoting a project or writing a blog, longs for one of the 20 coveted spots. To track the changes in the Google Hot Trend list is relatively easy, to become a Google Hot Trend, well, that’s a different story…

Sometimes all it takes is a brief mention on the world’s largest platform to get you the “Trends Club.” Last night on Donald Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice,” a millionaire philanthropist donated a staggering $50,000 to a charity aimed at helping families with autistic children spearheaded by the lovely Holly Robinson Peete. Today, that philanthropist by the name of Ron Burkle is Google Hot Trend number 11.

BUT anyone who’s reached the summit of Mt. Everest was once all the way at the bottom and all it takes is to just make the first move.

Since ADMSP has already started their sites to create an online presence, letting others know we exists is the next logical move. Eventually as news spreads of our existence, the quest towards becoming a Google Hot Trend becomes more and more feasible.

What is important to remember is the road to greatness sometimes involves anonymity, and notoriety isn’t always achieved through philanthropy. The goal lies in remaining true to the cause, honest with yourself, sincere to your followers and as Mr. Hawking diligently believes, the universe will take care of the rest!

Blogging: “Slow and Steady Wins the Race!”

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Apr 192010

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Dear Friends,

The Internet is big. Really big. It’s easy to get lost and it’s hard to be found. There are millions of websites to choose from and with thousands of generated hits with every Search, how is a newbie supposed to reach that coveted number 1 spot on a Search Result?

The secret lies in creating a presence. Relevancy is what makes sites successful and mainly all success stories have one thing in common: Great Tags and Keywords. A “tag,” is just that. A label that when typed in any search bar, corresponds to your site. A “keyword” is a word or words related to your topic that will help you find information when conducting a search. Selecting the right Tags and Keywords can be rather daunting as in the case with ADMSP. What are we exactly? With every facet of our efforts we can create hundreds of Tags and Keywords. Take for example our Conservation Initiatives, from our earth friendly materials to our Butterfly Vivarium, the list can be quite lengthy. To learn what words work best and which ones are too vague, we have to decide what we want people to find.

In my case, I want people to find my blogs. At this point, I have already tackled bounce rates, joined blog communities and am in the process of making friends by commenting on many other blogs. Now, I need to reverse the flow of traffic inwards and spark conversations. This is where Google Alerts comes into play. Google Alerts are e mails automatically sent to you when there are new Google results for your search terms.

After preparing my list of Tags and Keywords relating to my blog topics, I insert them into Google Alerts and wait. Google tracks the Internet for search hits generated off of my Alert List and lets me know. Pretty easy, right? It is a method of determining if my selected Tags/Keywords are being effective.

This tool will be implemented in order to achieve my specific goal of increasing blog viewership. The tools and methods established by Google have made it really easy to get this process started. Google Alerts also works alongside FeedBurner, but more on that later…

Creating, building, expanding, promoting and tracking a blog is more of a marathon than a sprint. You must patiently and diligently work with multiple resources to see your blog prosper. It is rare to find an overnight blog success with so many of them out there at any given time. All of the tools that are available should be implemented wisely in order to achieve maximum results.

Just like it takes a village to raise a child, it takes the Internet to form a blog!

Charlotte’s Web 2.0 – Blog Communities

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Apr 132010

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Dear Friends,

What do you do when you want to meet someone new?

You’re probably thinking you go a bar, new club, different kind of restaurant, or hit the boardwalk for a couple of hours and see if something pretty or handsome catches your eye.

But what do you do when you want to meet lots of new “someones”? That’s what I need to know, or at least what I needed to learn last week. Only instead of singles, I need bloggers, lots of bloggers who will visit my ADMSP blog.

Through Blog Catalog, I have discovered a series of “blog communities” that when properly exploited, can increase readership and blog participation significantly! At Blog Catalog, I opened an account for ADMSP and gradually started to get to know my way around the site. How do I add Friends? How do I join Groups? How can I successfully encourage others to visit my site?

The answer is as simple as it is complex: Participate. I must chat, comment, read and engage these fellow bloggers and convince them than my blog is pretty cool, and we can learn a lot from each other.

The process was exciting as it was interesting; I joined a group for creative writers, and found tons of new folks who get writer’s block from time to time. Here I thought I was the only one!

All of this leads me to think of:

A web.

A web of many blogs interlinked by a common topic such as art, education, children, blogging, and a plethora of other topics all in one convenient spot, or in this case, Group. Here, there are discussions you can take part in and in return, generate traffic towards your blog. It is so effective because the discussion is not among individuals, but several bloggers who fall under that particular category. Additionally, it expands your searches to many blogs you otherwise wouldn’t find.

So, talking to one means talking too many all at once, now all you got to do is, well, TALK!

TALK TO YOU ALL SOON!

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