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Workshop Materials for How to Write a Successful Fellowship/Scholarship Application. Dear Colleagues I have conducted a number of workshops for students in various contexts about how to write a successful fellowship application. For the workshops I have put together a short-power point presentation that provides some key tips and strategies for developing an effective proposal, and also some key fellowship resources. Some additional key resources for proposal writing include A short summary is below: This presentation is designed to provide key resources on how to obtain students can obtain fellowships and scholarships for study and research.

Feel free to add your own suggestions/resources. Keppie Careers | Empowering Success. Business Coach, Business Coaching - Worldwide Association of Business Coaches. SAP's CIO: You're Putting Your Executive Career at Risk if You're Not Social - Forbes | Socializing Professional Services. Highlands Forum. Innovation Uncensored NY | Fast Company. About IdeaFestival. What is IdeaFestival? Founded in 2000, IdeaFestival is a celebration for the intellectually curious.

It’s an eclectic network of global thinkers and one-of-a-kind innovators bound together by an intense curiosity about what is impacting and shaping the future of the arts, business, technology, design, science, philosophy and education. The content of IdeaFestival is as diverse as the network itself – presentations range from discussions about life before life to the existence of parallel universes; from global politics to the philosophy of randomness; from disruptive innovation to living to be 250 and beyond.

In the words of one participant, “At IdeaFestival, seemingly unrelated topics offer surprising relationships and insights.” Who Attends IdeaFestival? The world’s leading thinkers, doers and innovators join curious minds from around the globe for 4 days once a year to explore, discuss and celebrate innovation, imagination and world-changing ideas. Who Speaks at IdeaFestival? Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Strategic News Service - Future in Review 2011.

Social Innovation Summit 2011. The WWW Conference : Improvised Conversations. Intellectual Jazz. Business Conferences by HSM. Speakers | Innovation Uncensored NY | Fast Company. Principles of Management 2.0 - Hackathon Navigator. Red Hat Open source strategy As an open source company, Red Hat open-sourced its strategic planning, involving all employees to make sure they discovered the best ideas and kept the conversation going. Employees have the freedom and accountability to drive and execute the strategy within the company.

Further reading MIX: Democratizing corporate strategy at Red Hat Wikimedia 1000 volunteers build a strategic plan Wikimedia enlisted a group of 1000+ volunteers to co-create its 5year strategic plan. Instead of chaos, the volunteers created a focused, actionable strategic plan that everyone bought into – because they were part of the process. Further reading MIX: Strategic planning the Wikimedia way Rite-Solutions An internal market where employees invest in ideas Crowdsourcing is part of Rite-Solution's culture. New ideas and resource allocation are done with an internal "Stock Market" where all ideas compete equally. Conference innovation and ideas. Plexus Institute. Global Agenda Councils.