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Virtual Events: Stand-Alone or Hybrid?

March 21, 2012

We’re gearing up here at Tagoras for the imminent release of our new Association Virtual Events report, and so today I’m sharing a data point from that report with our blog readers. (And if you’re interested in getting a first alert about the report’s release, as well as a discount, then sign up for the [...]

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3 Essential Blogs for Boosting Your E-learning Know-How and Productivity

March 20, 2012

I hear often from association educators that they struggle to find the time and resources they need to support their e-learning efforts. While there are no miracle solutions to this issue, there are some great sources for very practical help out here on the Web – you just have to know where to look. Too [...]

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Social and Mobile Learning Survey

March 15, 2012

While we don’t endorse specific companies or technologies, we do like to support vendor efforts to contribute to data about trends in the association education market. To that end, WBT Systems has announced a new survey on mobile and social learning. Here’s what the company says: Social learning and mobile learning are currently very topical [...]

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Expanding Your Association’s Education Team—on a Shoestring

March 14, 2012

Last week I heard an NPR segment about Taxis on Patrol. Taxi drivers are out and about at all hours, and Denver police decided to capitalize by enlisting cabbies’ help in their fight against crime. The day after Denver launched the Taxis on Patrol program, “a cab driver helped police make an arrest for a [...]

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Worried Your Web Site Sucks? 3 Tools to Help You Test and Transform It

March 12, 2012

When I wrote recently about essential skills and tactics for learning leaders, one of my points was that “tending the home fires” – that is, maintaining a compelling, high value, user friendly Web site – is essential if you expect to attract people to your educational offerings. But how do you know if your Web [...]

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Do you leverage these essential skills of a learning leader?

March 7, 2012

This is the second part of a post I started recently on 7 Essential Skills and Tactics for Learning Leaders. You can read about the first four skills/tactics in the earlier post. Here are the remaining three:

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How to Embrace Instructional Design for Higher Impact Conference Sessions

February 28, 2012

The above video is rough and ready Flip camera footage from my 15 minute session on instructional design at the recent PCMA annual conference. This was part of the Learning Lounge put together by the folks over at Velvet Chainsaw, who did an excellent job. You can grab the slides that go with this on SlideShare (full [...]

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7 Essential Skills and Tactics for Learning Leaders, Part I

February 21, 2012

One of the areas we are focusing on more as we progress into the new year is helping our clients with sourcing talent for their learning initiatives. We’ll be offering a variety of resources in the coming months, but as I am currently in the midst of preparing to speak to a group of professional [...]

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What if you were the Dyson of your market?

February 13, 2012

No, I don’t mean your education should suck. Rather, I have in mind that obvious and yet amazing claim for a vacuum cleaner manufacturer to make: Our vacuums have strong suction and they don’t lose it. How could you claim the same for the educational experiences you offer? It might be something along the lines [...]

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Plan your virtual event with advice from two battle-scarred experts

February 2, 2012

Joyce McKee of Let’s Talk Tradeshows recently posted on Questions to Develop Your Virtual Event Strategy and in her post linked to video from a session on virtual event business planning I moderated at last year’s IAEE mid-year meeting. I didn’t even know this video existed or I would have posted it here sooner. The session featured [...]

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