Happy New Year! Did you set any goals for the year? One of mine is getting back to posting regularly to this blog! Much of the latter part of 2008 was consumed by work on getting the ASTM International Standard Practice for Certificate Programs adopted as an American National Standard (ANS)…and we're not…
January 6th, 2009 | Mickie Rops | Comments | ContinuedUncategorized
Gaming the System
Doubt that gaming is becoming a core marketing strategy? This New York Times article about the Army Experience Center in Philadelphia might challenge your mindset.
Gaming is not a new tool in the military’s recruitment approach. Along with several corporations and a few nonprofits, the military has used video games the past few years…
January 6th, 2009 | Jeffrey Cufaude | Comments | Continued
More on those predictions
Everyone likes pictures, and I personally have a short attention span so I loved this: Trendspotting turned those socmed predictions into a fab slideshow. Enjoy!
December 30th, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
My 2008 association industry predictions (Part II)
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I have five remaining 2008 association industry predictions. Let’s see how I did:
Prediction #6: Associations will really get interested in Facebook. Meanwhile, something like Second Life, but better, will be introduced and there’ll be another land rush…
December 19th, 2008 | bkmcae@gmail.com (Ben Martin) | Comments | Continued
How did I do on my 2008 predictions? (Part I)
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I’m pulling together my best of 2008 blog awards, but as a distraction, I decided to head back to this post from January 1, 2008 to see how my ten association predictions for 2008 fared.
Prediction #1: There will be…
December 15th, 2008 | bkmcae@gmail.com (Ben Martin) | Comments | Continued
Designations for Certificate Programs
If you are a NOCA member you just received an e-mail asking you to comment on the ASTM draft standard for certificate programs. I believe there are a lot of misconceptions out there about the issue raised so I'd like to provide some background here that will hopefully bring some clarity…
December 12th, 2008 | Mickie Rops | Comments | Continued
What comes down, must go up. Will you be ready?
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Inevitably, this recession is going to end. Even while you’re focused making ends meet for the foreseeable future (important stuff, mind you) don’t lose sight of the fact that the economy will turn around. And the recovery…
December 10th, 2008 | bkmcae@gmail.com (Ben Martin) | Comments | Continued
Resource for Rapid Learning Developers
If you develop elearning courses through a rapid development tool (Articulate Presenter, Adobe Presenter, etc.), consider subscribing to Articulate's blog "The Rapid eLearning Blog." It's a fabulous resource for developing better courses using these tools. Actually, its content often applies to developing any type of learning program. Today's post is on…
December 4th, 2008 | Mickie Rops | Comments | Continued
Follow-up from Webinar Post
I must apologize to any of you who registered for the webinar today based on my post. It was horrible, from a technology and content perspective. Perhaps look at it as a lesson in what NOT to do, how NOT to gain new members through free events. ;-}
December 2nd, 2008 | Mickie Rops | Comments | Continued
Webinar of Interest
LERN is offering a free webinar tomorrow, Tuesday on:
State of Lifelong Learning
Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2 pm ET
Click HERE to register
You'll find out:
- What kinds of classes and programs are weathering the recession the best
- Why you should be reaching out to Gen Y
- How the environmental movement is impacting the way programs…
Think your association is hurting financially? How about your members?
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I’ve been sitting on this post for a few days and it’s admittedly not fully baked. Tossing it out there for discussion:
Everyone in the association community, myself included, seems to be chattering away about a single question: How associations can survive this economic downturn?…
November 25th, 2008 | bkmcae@gmail.com (Ben Martin) | Comments | Continued
Simple favicons for Wordpress
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This ain’t breaking news by any stretch of the imagination, but I recently added a favicon to my blog by using the very easy MaxBlogPress Favicon plugin:
November 25th, 2008 | bkmcae@gmail.com (Ben Martin) | Comments | ContinuedWith the MaxBlogPress Favicon Wordpress Plugin there is help at hand so nobody has to ever touch any code anymore…
Peaked at 404. Is that a bad omen?
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Just wanted to say thank you for reading. On Wednesday, November 12 I passed the 400 subscriber mark. I’m amazed that anyone actually reads this blog sometimes.
Thanks for amazing me.
November 22nd, 2008 | bkmcae@gmail.com (Ben Martin) | Comments | Continued
Peaked at 404. Is that a bad omen?
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Just wanted to say thank you for reading. On Wednesday, November 12 I passed the 400 subscriber mark. I’m amazed that anyone actually reads this blog sometimes.
Thanks for amazing me.
November 22nd, 2008 | bkmcae@gmail.com (Ben Martin) | Comments | Continued
They’ve never heard of you, either
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I’ve attended a number of conferences recently in which I’ve (over)heard several conversations amongst consultant-types saying “They had so-and-so speaking about such-and-such, and nobody I talked to had even heard of them.” The air of the gripe seems to be, “If they had hired me,…
November 21st, 2008 | bkmcae@gmail.com (Ben Martin) | Comments | Continued
Done (just love having a to-do checked off so quickly). Thanks. Now to practice writing that on checks ;) 
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