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Stronger by Association: Engle Earns Meeting Planner Certification

AMR Management Services

Thursday, March 22, 2012. 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. . ▼ 2012. (30). CONTRIBUTORS. AMR MANAGEMENT SERVICES.

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Dangerous Assumptions About Your Conference Education Part I

Velvet Chainsaw

It’s backwards thinking and it’s one of our conference’s most dangerous assumptions. Most of our conference education mimics our traditional higher education model. Yet we copy this model for our conference schedules. That distorts the mission of our conference. Two Additional Faulty Conference Education Assumptions.

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OMB Allows “Mission Critical” Exemptions for Federal Conference Spending

Associations Now

In an update to its 2012 guidance restricting federal conference spending, the Office of Management and Budget said that agencies can ask for more money to send employees to face-to-face meetings in “mission-critical” situations. The strict rules limiting federal conference spending just got a tiny bit less strict.

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CXPA Elevates the Customer Experience with Community

Higher Logic

A group of members beta-tested the community, and CXPA set to launch it alongside the annual conference, Insight Exchange, in May. After finding there wasn’t any software in the right price range, CXPA saw Higher Logic and partner eConverse’s web design in action at the annual Super Forum conference in 2015. Check it out here.

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CEUs Are The Fool’s Gold Of Conference Marketing

Velvet Chainsaw

CEUs or continuing education credits are often mistaken for the primary reason why attendees go to conferences. Participants can’t earn a degree, but those who demonstrate a mastery of the subject taught will receive an official certificate of completion (convn.org/MIT-free). We think it’s gold…but it’s not!

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A Busy Start to 2012

Moving through the Association World

After a month it is beginning to look like 2012 is going to be extremely busy for me. MASAE has been a great organization for me, I am also going to be working with the Annual Conference Planning Committee and strategic planning with the organization. So, 2012 is off to a fast start.

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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. It’s a great attractor for learning experiences at conferences and multi-day live courses. As we know, these transactions are often managed in the most labor-intensive way possible.