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12 Areas Your Association Must Address to Thrive During a Recession

Membersuite

Temper your revenue projections. 2: Revenue Diversification. During the pandemic, many associations were caught short when they had to cancel or transform their major revenue generator —the annual meeting or trade show—and didn’t have a worthy virtual alternative for sponsors and exhibitors. 3: Membership Tiers and Pricing.

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Refocusing on Jobs and Education in 2015

YourMembership

That question was answered in November when LinkedIn launched a new feature that will allow professional education companies and eventually colleges to provide certifications for LinkedIn users who have completed their courses. Data that allows LinkedIn to develop new products and services with huge revenue generating potential.

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Setting Strategy for Certification’s New World

Associations Now

It’s tempting to jump right into the new ways to engage members in certification. Like most things in the association world, certification is undergoing a transformation. I discuss a few examples of what this new terrain looks like in my feature on certification in the latest issue of Associations Now. Rops, FASAE, CAE.

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Embracing the Norm of Calculated Risk: Annette Homan, CAE, RIMS The Risk Management Society

Association Adviser

We want to expand education, but local universities are better equipped to market to and educate people in their areas than we are, so we’ve developed relationships with about a dozen universities with the goal of offering courses that lead to risk management certifications. The global community has told us they are focused on certifications.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

When a learner accumulates a sufficient balance of CE credits over a certain span of time, she achieves maintenance of certification. From a five-mile-high perspective, however, lower prices for education shouldn’t bother us (if you’re currently looking at shrinking CE revenues in your annual report, just try to bear with me for a second).

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Association Brain Food: 2.24.23

Reid All About it

. – Psychometrics Concepts in Professional Certification Process Gain a better understanding of the psychometric principles used to develop, administer, and interpret professional certification tests. Learn about the ethical and legal considerations related to certification processes. More info/register. Fri 2/24 at 4 p.m.

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

Velvet Chainsaw

Is your organization still trying to make revenue from didactic forms of education and instruction? They traced the history of learning from 1957-2008. Certification was a one-time learning process for permanent qualification. Are you using a hierarchical, top-down, command and control delivery model? Learning 1.0 Learning 2.0