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### Ian David Moss
Ian David Moss was the Senior Director of Information Strategy at Fractured Atlas, a nonprofit technology company that helps artists with the business aspects of their work. To learn more about Fractured Atlas, or to get involved, visit us here.
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July 10th, 2014
(This is the fourth post in a series on Fractured Atlas’s capacity-building pilot initiative, Fractured Atlas as a Learning Organization. To read more about it, please check out Fractured Atlas as a Learning Organization: An Introduction.)
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## [Fractured Atlas as a Learning Organization: Navigating Uncertainty](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/fractured-atlas-as-a-learning-organization-navigating-uncertainty-19070fc31a00)
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April 24th, 2014
(This is the third post in a series on Fractured Atlas’s capacity-building pilot initiative, Fractured Atlas as a Learning Organization. To read more about it, please check out Fractured Atlas as a Learning Organization: An Introduction.) I don’t know about you, but I’ve always been a reluctant decision maker. When I go out to eat at a restaurant, I often drive my dinner mates crazy by asking the wait staff for recommendations and then just ordering what I was thinking about getting anyway. In high school, I used to agonize over what now seem like trivial choices like what topic I should choose for my English papers. Perhaps that’s why I’m so drawn to the science of decision-making.
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## [Fractured Atlas as a Learning Organization: You’re Not as Smart as You Think](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/fractured-atlas-as-a-learning-organization-you-re-not-as-smart-as-you-think-8e828fc6f193)
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February 5th, 2014
(This is the second post in a series on our capacity-building pilot initiative, Fractured Atlas as a Learning Organization. To read more about it, please check out Fractured Atlas as a Learning Organization: An Introduction.)
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## [Two New Research Publications from Fractured Atlas](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/two-new-research-publications-from-fractured-atlas-ca3a0b88883a)
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January 27th, 2014
A couple of years ago, we redesigned our fiscal sponsorship annual report to match up more closely with the format of the Cultural Data Project, an emerging data standard for cataloging financial, operational and programmatic information relating to arts nonprofits. In September 2012, we reaped the first fruits of that evolution in the form of “Discovering Fiscally Sponsored NYC Dancemakers,” a research report conducted for Dance/NYC that was the first study we know of to combine data from multiple fiscal sponsors to paint an inclusive picture of the dance community.
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## [Fractured Atlas as a Learning Organization: An Introduction](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/fractured-atlas-as-a-learning-organization-an-introduction-6742188a4c14)
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October 31st, 2013
If you’ve been paying any attention at all to technology trends the past few years, you know that we live in the era of Big Data. All of those videos we upload to YouTube, hard drives we fill with government secrets (or cat photos, take your pick), and tweets we awkwardly punch out on touchscreen keyboards add up to a whole lot of gigabytes, the bulk of which are stored by someone, somewhere, indefinitely.
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## [Collective Impact in the Arts](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/collective-impact-in-the-arts-d7d9b47355d)
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August 9th, 2013
(This essay was originally written in my role as an outside consultant to the city of Calgary’s cultural plan. For this entry, I was asked to reflect on the possibility of developing a collective impact model for the arts in Calgary. You can read all of my contributions to that process here.)
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## [Everyone is a Lot of People](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/everyone-is-a-lot-of-people-e3659353003f)
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July 30th, 2013
by Ian David Moss, Senior Director of Information Strategy at Fractured Atlas (This essay was originally written in my role as an outside consultant to the city of Calgary’s cultural plan. You can read all of my contributions to that process here.) For my second essay responding to the #yycArtsPlan process, I thought I would focus on the last paragraph of the “Summary of Vision Statements from the January 26 Summit”:
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## [Helping Calgary Navigate its Cultural Planning Process](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/helping-calgary-navigate-its-cultural-planning-process-ecba8f7f5e06)
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July 15th, 2013
source: Flickr For the past several months, I’ve served in my Fractured Atlas capacity as a “consulting critic” to Calgary Arts Development (CADA)’s Arts Plan process, also known as #yycArtsPlan. Calgary is a fast-growing oil and gas boomtown in Canada’s western region that has been characterized to me by more than one person as the “Texas of Canada.”
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## [Introducing the Cultural Research Network](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/introducing-the-cultural-research-network-1fdcdbba1151)
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May 15th, 2013
Way back when I was a fresh-faced intern with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s Performing Arts Program almost five years ago now, I made a startling discovery. In the course of researching various conceptions and definitions of cultural asset mapping in preparation for what would eventually become my work here at Fractured Atlas, I came to realize that a significant body of literature existed on the arts and economic/community development with which I had been entirely unfamiliar. That wouldn’t have been so notable except that I had previously taken an interest of my own in the topic; I considered myself pretty knowledgeable, certainly relative to my former coworkers and business school colleagues. And yet here I was coming across hundreds of pages of stuff, great stuff, really fascinating, ground-breaking stuff, and hardly anyone in my professional circles knew it existed.
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## [In Defense of Logic Models](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/in-defense-of-logic-models-31b8fa387cfd)
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June 28th, 2012
Photo by 7073k Last month, my post Creative Placemaking Has an Outcomes Problem generated a lot of discussion about creative placemaking and grantmaking strategy, much of it really great. If you haven’t had a chance, please check out these thoughtful and substantive responses by — just to name a few — Richard Layman, Niels Strandskov, Seth Beattie, Lance Olson, Andrew Taylor, Diane Ragsdale, Laura Zabel, and most recently, ArtPlace itself.
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