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Nonprofits That Stray Off Course

Reid All About it

A press release from the American Beverage Institute (ABI) , admittedly a biased onlooker, provides some ugly numbers – a decline in revenue and spending on community programs, while salaries increased. Wikipedia , sourcing the organization’s tax forms, says MADD spent more than half its income on salaries in 2008.

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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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Strategic meeting audits: Leveraging data to improve ROI

Aaron Wolowiec

Has your organization’s meetings function experienced a year-over-year revenue decline – however slight – since the 2007 recession? As a CMP (certified meeting professional) preparation course facilitator, I’ll borrow a page from our participant reading materials: Identify event goals and objectives. Next, let’s identify step one.

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Report: 90% of Associations Use Technology to Enhance Learning

Associations Now

Associations that implement a strategic approach to incorporating technology into learning report more revenue gains, according to a new report from Tagoras. percent of organizations with a formal strategy for how technology will be used to enable or enhance learning report an increase in revenue, versus 51.7

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

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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). It’s a great attractor for learning experiences at conferences and multi-day live courses. Slope of Enlightenment.

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Ignoring the Impossible

Jamie Notter

They do $700 million in revenue a year, so this is not a small company. There’s a lot that goes into making those bullet points work, of course. December 2008 (9). November 2008 (4). October 2008 (6). September 2008 (6). August 2008 (14). July 2008 (10). June 2008 (11).

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Seen Elsewhere: Building Creative.

Idea Architects

How Secure is Your Professional Development Revenue Stream? Professors from Stanford have created Coursera , a Khan Academy-style effort but featuring courses from the top universities for free. Oct 2008 (1). Sep 2008 (4). Aug 2008 (2). Jul 2008 (8). May 2008 (5). Apr 2008 (3). Mar 2008 (4).