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Stronger by Association: Engle Earns Meeting Planner Certification

AMR Management Services

Engle Earns Meeting Planner Certification. The foremost certification of the meetings, conventions and exhibitions industry, the CMP program recognizes individuals who have achieved the industrys highest standard of professionalism. . Battle for Relevance: How Twitter, HBR and the Army Impact Associations (Part 1 of 2).

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5 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Association’s Event

Blue Sky eLearn

With the right tech infrastructure in place, it’s time to start thinking about how to best use your events to engage and reach members. If your engagement rates are falling , make sure your events (especially those requiring paid registration) offer meaningful, sought-after benefits like education and certification opportunities.

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CXPA Elevates the Customer Experience with Community

Higher Logic

The Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) was founded in 2011 as a premier, global non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement and cultivation of the customer experience profession. Leveraging education and certification. CXPA elicits help from one full-time employee, three contractors and a management company.

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Hybrid Meetings Doomed to Failure? Not So Fast

Velvet Chainsaw

I’ll admit that in 2011, when the Virtual Edge Institute (now called the Digital Experience Institute) first co-located its conference with the Professional Convention Management Association’s Convening Leaders, the experience fell flat for me. and encouraged and vetted questions to ask of the speaker at the appropriate times.

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Dangerous Assumptions About Your Conference Education Part I

Velvet Chainsaw

Assumption 1: Certification For Everyone. Much of our conference education programming is built upon proliferating a similar elitist system—industry designations and certification. Finally, we make them pay a fee every two to five years to keep that certification. How The Brain Learns b y David Sousa (2011).

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How An Integrated, Locally Relevant Marketing, Sales, and Member Service Strategy Drove Massive Growth

GlowGlobally

The results they achieved in their Middle East region showed significant improvement within 12 months of implementing their new strategy in 2011: Growth in certification candidates of over 90%. Rethinking How to Serve Members & Customers. Challenges to Growth. Website traffic increased over 60%.

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Legal Issues That Are Important To Any International Strategy.

GlowGlobally

Certification- as many associations rely heavily on their certification programs to sustain the organization, opening those certifications up to an international market is not as easy as just allowing those outside the US to take the certification test! Creating localized certifications is the ideal. Membership.