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How to Motivate Certification Candidates

WBT Systems

The candidates for your association’s certification programs face the same challenges as CAE candidates: Finding time and money to earn the required continuing education credits. How can you motivate certification candidates and keep them on the credential path? 3 intrinsic drivers that motivate certification candidates.

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Association Brain Food: 12.20.24

Reid All About it

Certification pricing. If members complain or inquire about the price of your credentialing programs, follow the lead of the Higher Education Consortium for Student Affairs Certification. They explained the reasoning behind their pricing in a post titled, Is Certification a Money Grab ? Small-staff technology.

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The Association?s Pursuit for Relevance: What Role Do Certifications, Certificates and Micro-Credentials Play?

Blue Sky eLearn

Taking from this amazing example from the Vancouver central library branch, what traditional constructs can associations seek to adapt, in order to evolve with the Digital Age and transform their value proposition? Often certification programs have eligibility requirements (i.e. I will leave that to the professionals.

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12 Examples of Thriving Communities for Online Community Builders to Learn From

Higher Logic

To make the idea of an online community and its benefits more concrete, we used our internal employee community to crowdsource 12 of our favorite examples of thriving communities around the web. These examples can help us answer the question: What really makes a community a community ? Example 1: Sephora Community.

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Association Brain Food: 2.7.25

Reid All About it

Have conversations with volunteers and staff about how you can all set an example for others. Earn up to 5 CAE credits by taking the SEO for Associations Certificate Course. She also shares examples of companies who built successful products but lost sight of what made them great. Association SEO course. Product development.

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Don’t Ignore Non-Dues Revenue Potential of Digital Badges!

WBT Systems

It prompted us to think about what might be the “next practices” associations need to adopt to future-proof the value of their education and certification programs for members and non-members. Non-Dues Revenue Potential of Digital Badges for Associations.

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New Year Resolution: Invest in Association Learning Technology

WBT Systems

Back at the office, this process is paralleled as the new year kick-starts strategic planning sessions to set goals for association management, covering everything from membership growth and retention to updating education and certification programs. Economies of Scale – reduce costs of delivering education programs.