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Best Practices Suck

Jamie Notter

When you live in Denver, it is absolutely a best practice to drive east if you want to get to Kansas City by car. Louis, you will never reach Kansas City (not without involving a boat or a plane, anyway). Not if changing your certification standards every ten minutes means people will stop taking it seriously. Context matters.

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Twelve Association Scholars Named to ASAE’s 2022-2024 DELP 2.0 Class

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Kansas City, MO. Director of Professional Learning and Certification. Chief Membership & Diversity Programs Officer. Endocrine Society. Christian A. Chief Executive Officer. FarmHouse Fraternity & Foundation. Celia Chomon Zamora. Alexandria, VA. MEDIA CONTACT: Chris Vest, CAE, 202-626-2798, cvest@asaecenter.org. .

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Connecting Brands, Clearing Inboxes, and Cultivating Employee Engagement with an Intranet Community

Higher Logic

Ascend Learning’s intranet has been so successful that, just a year after launch, basecamp was awarded the Gold PRISM award for Internal Communication by the Greater Kansas City Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). Out of 1,000 employees, 902 have edited some part of their profile and 809 have profile photos. About Ascend Learning.

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Connecting Brands, Clearing Inboxes, and Cultivating Employee Engagement with an Intranet Community

Higher Logic

Ascend Learning’s intranet has been so successful that, just a year after launch, basecamp was awarded the Gold PRISM award for Internal Communication by the Greater Kansas City Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). Out of 1,000 employees, 902 have edited some part of their profile and 809 have profile photos. About Ascend Learning.

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Library Group Aims to Reeducate Public on Its Profession

Associations Now

Some schools are opting to hire “innovation specialists” in lieu of school librarians, who have earned master’s degrees and librarian certifications. Job requirements include a teaching license and previous experience as an elementary school teacher; noticeably absent in the requirements are a library-related degree and certification. “As

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Location, Location, Location: Destination Drives Current and Future Attendance

Associations Now

For instance, the Certified Tourism Ambassador program offers a nationwide certification for workers and volunteers “that mobilizes a destination’s frontline to turn every visitor encounter into a positive experience.”.

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How the Mighty Fall - Associations at Risk - Part 1 of 5

Association Subculture

Oh, Those Shiny Golden Handcuffs – Associations who corner a market on a particular industry or profession, usually by means of establishing a certification program or other similar benefit, can often fall victim to an over-dependence upon the mechanism that has individuals “trapped” into membership.

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