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Hello! Im Ashleigh Weeden . I ask a lot of questions, talk pretty fast and I care about communities. I work with awesome people to imagine rural futures - and then make them reality. Find me on Twitter: @ashleighweeden Who o are you ou?

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Hello!

I’m Ashleigh Weeden.

I ask a lot of questions, talk pretty fast and I care about communities. I work with awesome people to imagine rural futures - and then make them reality. Find me on Twitter: @ashleighweeden

SLIDE 2

Who

are you
u?

SLIDE 3

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Inigo Montoya

SLIDE 4

In Innovation

is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.

Tom
m Fres

reston

SLIDE 5

Create ca

capacity ity

Develop relati

lationship ips

Enhance cu

cultu lture

Beyond the Buzzword

Empower co

communit ity

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EXAMPLE: TWO PROJECTS, ONE smart GOAL

SWIFT (inf nfrastru astructure) cture) CONNECTED COUNTY (intellig ntelligent ent comm mmunity) nity) HOLISTIC, ADAPTABLE, SCALABLE = comm mmunity nity value

Im Impossib ible le with ithou

Regio ional Colla

llaboratio

ion

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We are all

n the hook

for dealing with the hard stuff.

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▧ do it on pu purpo pose: why hy are are you you doi doing ng th this? s? ▧ be ope pen-mind inded ed: un unicorn rns exist xist (they’re just fat and we call th them em rh rhinoc nocero roses and and nar narwhals ls) ▧ no one is going to care more than you: stop stop wai aiti ting for for pe perm rmis issio ion ▧ be de delig ightfu htful: th this s is s sup supposed ed to to be be fun fun!

”The doing is the thing. The talking and worrying and thinking is not the thing.” (Amy Poehler)

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Innovation requires tools + channels that create conversations + relationships. ▧ leverage your networks ▧ play with the people who love you (and learn to receive the gift of honest feedback) ▧ don’t discount old school methods

exchanges ≠ engagement transactions ≠ talking meetings ≠ meaning

It’s not ju just st ab about

ut te

technolo logy. .

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WE CAN DO HARD THINGS

"V "Vuln lnerabil ilit ity is is th the birt irthpla lace

f
f inn

innovatio ion, , creati tivit ity an and d change." ."

(Brene Brown)

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Get messy. Be excellent and be excellent to each other.

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Thanks!

Let’s jam!

Find me on Twitter at @ashleighweeden Email me at weedens@uoguelph.ca Find out more about the work at www.ruraldev.ca