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A Special Thank You for Speaking Invitations!

These civic and professional organizations invited and hosted
Ideas & MORE for speaking engagements and creativity presentations.
 

Enjoy a pictorial view of selected events in our Gallery.

 

Recent Happenings

Houston, TX -- During the July/August time frame, Ideas & MORE partnered with 4Guys Interactive to create and produce the collateral material for this year's American Advertising Federation Houston Trailblazer Award. Take a look under the Print section in our Portfolio.

This partnership is another in a series of creative joint assignments with 4Guys. Selections can be viewed under the Essays/Published Articles in our Portfolio section.

 

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Houston, TX -- Ideas & MORE reports that Joe Fournet was re-elected in June to the boards of director of the American Advertising Federation Houston and one of its major committees, Only in Houston.

Also during June, Joe was asked to serve as Web Chair for the 10th District of the American Advertising Federation.

 

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Houston, TX -- The Texas Association of Special Investigation Units

(TASIU) featured Joe Fournet of  Ideas & MORE and his

"Think Differently or Else" interactive presentation.

During their June 8th meeting, Mr. Fournet talked on the importance of persuasive communication and the role of thinking differently

as it applies both to internal and external audiences.

"When I invited a creativity expert to speak to our group of fraud investigators, some of my members thought I had gone crazy. However, Joe Fournet quickly grabbed their interest by translating creative thinking into the type of problem solving that we, as investigators, use everyday.

No, this is not a prayer meeting but a creativity exercise -

The 30,000 ft. view.

Joe’s advice and insight was extremely applicable to those times when we develop initial case plans, determine key areas to pursue, and when we must present our case to both internal and external audiences.

I was so impressed with Joe’s advice to our Texas group that I invited him to share this insight with the International organization via an interview. This too, was received with interest from our members. Thanks Joe."

-- Brent Walker, SCLA, AHFI
Chapter President

The TASIU is the Texas-South chapter of the larger international organization primarily comprised of insurance fraud investigators from insurance companies and law enforcement agencies with many of the investigators employed by insurance companies coming from  law enforcement backgrounds.  

A PDF version of the presentation is available for download.

A Keynote version is also available for download.

 

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Houston, TX -- The American Marketing Association Houston Professional Development SIG played host on Friday, May 13, 2011, with a special workshop led by Joe Fournet titled "Think Differently and Spark Creativity:

Let your Intelligence Have Some Fun!"

The workshop at the United Way explored the importance of ideas, how they can be generated at "warp speed," finding your own creative self,
and much more.

"One thing I promised folks attending the workshop was that they'd be able to go back to their office environment and immediately begin to put into practice some of the things talked about," states Fournet. "We all had fun, that's for sure," he grinned.

Read testimonial and download presentation in the Portfolio section.

 

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Houston, TX -- In a special joint appearance in April, Joe Fournet of  Ideas & MORE and Troy Burwell of 4Guys Interactive present "Creativity & Technology: Learning to Play in the Internet Sandbox".

Troy (Mr. Technology) and Joe (Mr. Creativity) after their presentation

The National Space and Technology Association (NSTA) hosted the pair during a professional development lecture series. Check out their presentation in Keynote or PDF.

 

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NASA/Clear Lake, TX - - The University of Houston Hurricane Business Recovery Center hosted a special workshop January 25, entitled "Kick Start Your Creativity to Improve Your Advertising and Marketing." Joe Fournet of Ideas & MORE was the guest presenter.

The Hurricane Business Recovery Center is a specialty center of the Small Business Development Center Network.

Check out the Highlights in the Portfolio section under Presentations.

 

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College Station, TX - - The Brazos Valley Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) kick started their year with a creative presentation by Joe Fournet of  Ideas & MORE, entitled "Kick

Starting Creativity Without Screwing Up the Idea."

The January 20 meeting covered such insights as how to generate ideas at

Warp Speed, how best to distill those ideas in finding the best one

(Drill Down), and what to do with those ideas once you come up with them

(Idea Wall and Idea Tub).

Check out the Highlights in the Portfolio section under Presentations.

 

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