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Associations: Solving the Skills Gap with Digital Credentials

WBT Systems

Prior to the digital revolution, these credentials were called certificates of completion. Unlike a paper-based certification, a digital badge is embedded with relevant “ metadata ” such as the badge title, description, date earned, issuer, recipient, expiration date and even specific details about the work submitted by the recipient.

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Refocusing on Jobs and Education in 2015

YourMembership

At the beginning of 2014 we started a conversation on the importance of a career center strategy for associations, especially in light of social networking giant LinkedIn’s aggressive efforts to become the leading online job board aggregator. job market continues to heat up. There is no question the U.S. According to the U.S.

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Do Your e-Learning Efforts Match Up with Your Members’ Needs and Expectations?

YourMembership

Trends in adult learning all point to online learning as preferred choice for continuing education and certification for professionals. We just held our Monthly Thought Leadership webinar entitled 5 Must Haves for Your Association’s eLearning Efforts. Standing pat is no longer an option.

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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. UK-based Juniper Research predicts the global SaaS market will swell to $53 billion by 2018.

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CXPA Elevates the Customer Experience with Community

Higher Logic

CXPA and Higher Logic launched the CXPA Community on May 13, 2014. After the CXPA Community launched in 2014, CXPA continued to use another vendor for its corporate website. The mentoring module from Higher Logic was a good solution that wouldn’t burden staff time – it was an easy sell for the leadership team. "My

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5 Things to Know about Salesforce for Association Management

Forj

The advantages are numerous, according to Jake Fabbri, chief marketing officer at Fonteva , a company that specializes in producing solutions for associations, professional societies and public agencies that run on Salesforce. While the company doesn’t provide specific counts, in 2014, Salesforce reported that it had 1.5

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Could Associations Replace College? (Take 2)

Leading Learning

I first posed this question in a post published in 2014. First, most of the economic gain comes from actually graduating – it is the degree, not the education that creates the most value in employment markets. College often amounts to a very resource intensive version of what is called “ job market signaling ” in economic circles.