When the curtain falls…
Well, the exhibits are all done. I’ve packed up my gear, rolled my big orange box upstairs, and finally got some sleep. Something about presenting information to a thousand people in the course of a few hours, getting to know new folks, hearing about the problems they have and the successes they have garnered makes me a bit too nervous to sleep the night before.
I take so many interesting things back with me, however. Here are some of the things that I learned…
- Some folks thought our logo was cool. Some had a hard time figuring it out. I might have to work on that
- We need to add IRS 990 fields to the data collection / service generation process - Vicki, Jan and I had a long talk about this and how much it would help, and its a really good idea.
- No one really gets the 704. It would appear that I am not alone in this feeling. Lots of folks don’t get it.
- The folks from CFAL are cool. We had some good chats, and are going to do more together going forward, along with the guys from CIL Management, in defining a standardized data transfer / collection process to help aggregate demographic, goal, and goal / service completion data in regional, state, and national groupings.
- Workflow can really help ILC’s. ILC’s should be run like businesses, even though they are not. Process can only help, and adaptive workflow would let ILC’s do things with thier data thier own way.
When I get back to sunny, hot Dallas, I am going to sleep through the weekend. Then, we’ll all start a chat on how we can best make a8ils work for Independent Living.
- Kevin
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