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Webinar Recap: Virtual Events; Trends, Best Practices, and Pitfalls

Blue Sky eLearn

On June 28, 2017, we held a webinar with MedComms Networking and hosted a panel of speakers from different elearning and virtual event backgrounds. Part of this testing with happen during your presenter training, but working with a professional, fully-managed webinar company also helps ensure there will be no audio issues.

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New Year Resolution: Invest in Association Learning Technology

WBT Systems

We are all making personal and professional new year’s resolutions for 2017, setting goals and making promises to ourselves to keep them this year. We want to help you to stay ahead of the technology curve, and share some of our knowledge and experience, to help make your education and certification programs as successful as possible.

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Why are Associations missing from the Digital Credentials conversation?

WBT Systems

Interestingly, since January 2017 there has been a proliferation of well-researched articles, opinion pieces, and whitepapers which echo the sentiment behind this stark indictment of the current education-to-employment system. ” (‘Leapfrogging in higher ed’, Tech Crunch, Jan 27, 2017.

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For a Good Time, Call on Members in 2017

Association Adviser

Have you resolved to network better in 2017? However you exchange your information, it has a certain look to it: the design on your paper card, the photos you choose for your online profile, the certifications you choose to include next to your name. Hold a webinar that introduces newcomers to your association or business.

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Associations: Solving the Skills Gap with Digital Credentials

WBT Systems

million open jobs in this country and only 98,000 were added in March 2017. Prior to the digital revolution, these credentials were called certificates of completion. Badges recognize program and certificate completion, with badge color based on skill level. Webinar Replay: Using Digital Badges to Close the Skills Gap.

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Community for Career Development: A Look Inside One NAVUG Community Member’s Journey

Higher Logic

With a vocational accounting certificate in my hand, I began working as an intern for the company CFO and loved both working and getting paid. It may seem surprising to go from an intern program in the early 80s with a vocational certificate out of high school, to Director of Business Technology and Intelligence.

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Survey Says… Online Education’s Role in Membership Marketing

WBT Systems

The ASI survey respondents are optimistic about the future of their associations—but less so than in 2017. Gain or maintain professional certification (12 percent). One MGI participant said their membership growth was due to “stronger digital presence and online offerings” and “growth in certification customers.”

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