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Should Associations Care About Blockchain?

Spark Consulting

Credentialing (degrees of all types, licenses, certifications, certificates, digital badges) is possibly, next to cryptocurrency, the most mature application of blockchain technology (and it’s certainly far more beneficial from a social good perspective). Nobody’s dying on the operating table here.”

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.4.22

Reid All About it

in agreement because that’s what I did and I haven’t applied for a job since 2004. A weekly conversation about meeting and event technology, including software, hardware, and audiovisual for in-person and online events. Host: Brandt Krueger, founder Event Technology Consulting. Host: Association Women Technology Champions.

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Recording Industry Group Adapts to Changing Technologies

Associations Now

Good As Gold (or Platinum) For music junkies interested in how the new “Combined” Digital Single Award will be calculated, here are the general requirements as defined by the Recording Industry Association of America : • Each permanent digital download (such as purchasing a song on iTunes) counts as one unit for certification purposes. •

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Happy Birthday to Us

Virtual

First, the birthday of Virtual itself – July 6, 2014 marks 15 years, and we are grateful to have been a part of many global technology movements that have since transformed the lives of consumers and altered how businesses function. We’ve had a good run, sticking to our roots as a technology-focused association management company.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

Facebook (founded 2004), LinkedIn (2002), and Twitter (2006) were still in their infancy at the point when we founded Tagoras, and sites like Instagram (2010) and TikTok (2016) had yet to come along. The Spread of Social. See this ReviewMyLMS post for more on the cost to create e-learning. The Creator Economy. billion acquisition in 2015.

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Are You Still Providing Education Opportunities Based On The Industrial Revolution Model?

Velvet Chainsaw

TRClark, ASTD Research, Chief Learning Officer and The eLearning Guild released a report in 2008 that addressed the market upheaval, technological disruption, demographic churning and political instability that threaten learning and organizations today. The rules began to change as technology advanced and foreign economies rose.

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Members Get Members. Staff? Not So Much.

Trade Association CEO Blog

I have always been jealous of those trade associations with a powerful membership hook, like a killer price on an insurance program or a government mandated certification that members must have for employment. My Volunteer Board President and his fellow Directors recruited more members in a month than I did in seven years on the road.