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How a Major Corporation Crowdsources Product Innovation (And How You Can Too)

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Starbucks is one of many companies that’s using crowdsourcing to take innovation directly to their customers. Starbucks’s online crowdsourcing community has a direct impact on its customers’ daily lives and purchases, making it a valuable tool for innovation as well as driving profits. It might just be their customers. Of course not.

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Industry Hiring Managers: Reach & Recruit Only the Best Candidates

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It’s now their mission to provide better services and innovative technologies to help match highly-qualified candidates with the best employers. Read the press release to learn more. This is especially important in today’s job climate, where there’s an increasing need for more skilled and educated workers.

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Association Brain Food: 6.7.24

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Kara Nacarato at Event Garde offers advice on balancing tradition and innovation when reinventing the annual conference experience. Hear insights, real-world examples, and tools that help you become more effective at self-promotion for career advancement and enhancement. Membership. More info/register. 1 CAE credit. More info/register.

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Tuesday Buzz: Cloudy Days Ahead

Associations Now

But in a new press release , Gartner says that anti-cloud sentiment is likely to fade away in a few years, as the offerings improve and bleeding-edge technology becomes cloud-only—think, for example, Adobe’s Creative Cloud offering, which is only available as a subscription service but is frequently updated for end users.

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Seeking Some Meetings Innovation? Ask Attendees.

Associations Now

How associations can take cues from what one hotel brand recently did to encourage new ideas and innovations from guests and apply them to their meetings. The first is an Innovation Lab at its Bethesda, Maryland, headquarters. This 10,000-square-foot underground lab is dedicated to promoting collaboration and innovation.

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Higher-Ed Groups Join Forces to Promote Analytics

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It seems to me [examples] are focused on the biggest, most innovative institutions in the country,” Johnston said. Johnston offered an example of how data-sharing can inform other departments. For a while now, our progress on institution-wide analytics initiatives has not hit its stride,” he said in a press release. “We

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Innovation: Key to Boosting Meeting Attendance

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The National Apartment Association is a prime example of an organization doing just that. NAA President and CEO Doug Culkin said he was inspired to do something innovative after he saw the impact of the original 2004 X-Prize for sub-orbital space flight, according to a press release. “I