Aaron Wolowiec

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From Gadgets to Growth:The Influence of Technology Innovation on Social Transformation

Aaron Wolowiec

While antiracism training can be valuable and effective when implemented thoughtfully, it is most effective when participants are engaged, willing, and open to the learning process. Models of innovation primarily used in business, marketing, and technology, may provide some insight.

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Not just any top five list: Innovative and interactive learning formats according to you

Aaron Wolowiec

Once a comprehensive list was compiled, the program’s advisory board added in their two cents and settled on a top five: Hybrid/virtual meetings; Innovative/interactive learning formats; Unusual/creative meeting spaces; Mobile meeting apps; and. In most cases, we’ve got the RFP process all wrong. Resources for more information.

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Our screwed up thinking about creating conference experiences

Aaron Wolowiec

And we’ve even institutionalized some defective planning processes based on those experiences and what serves us best in our practice. We bring our beliefs from our experiences with other institutions into our conference planning process. We’ve had experiences with institutions and organizations. We’ve had vacation experiences.

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Call for Presentations: Dead or Alive?

Aaron Wolowiec

And by “quality” I mean different, leading-edge, innovative and engaging presentations. I hope this helps spark some ideas of how you might tweak the process within your own organization to ensure the “right” content at your next event. Best of luck as you dig into this crowdsourcing process. visuals, handouts, activities).

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The absolute trap: How the word “never” is holding you back

Aaron Wolowiec

And breaking through this barrier is an important part of the innovation process. Rather, the goal is to find a happy medium – both at work and at home – where you’re able to develop and adhere to basic guidelines that govern work flow and processes, but that also allow for and encourage both innovation and deviance from the norm.

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Achieve more: The art of collaboration

Aaron Wolowiec

Interestingly enough, collaboration is defined as the act or process of collaborating , as well as the product resulting from collaboration. A few years ago, the Michigan Society of Association Executives (MSAE) introduced a new award recognizing innovative collaboration. But that’s an aside.

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5 Cool Things Associations Are Doing at Meetings and Events

Aaron Wolowiec

As the weekly blogger (and deputy editor) for ASAE ’s AssociationsNow.com , I write about some of the innovative things that associations are doing for their meetings and conferences. ASPPA used the free, open-source platform All Our Ideas for the voting process. The process was then repeated. Let Members Do the Planning.