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A New Social Learning Initiative: CommPartners and Higher Logic Announce Strategic Partnership
Columbia, MD – November 17, 2016. CommPartners, a leading provider of Learning Management Software, webcast, and event live stream solutions and Higher Logic, the leader in cloud-based community platforms announce they will be collaborating to fully integrate...
Community, Loyalty and Learning: Steps for Engagement
Every day, each of us makes many decisions on how we spend our time and money. Some of these decisions require careful consideration and can take weeks or months, while others happen almost unconsciously, based on a feeling of comfort, expectations and trust. All...
Bridging the Gap: The Association Role in the New Education Paradigm
Because associations serve a dual bottom line, they are always looking for ways to do well while doing good. As mission-driven organizations, they are called to serve those missions, but “no money – no mission.” There is a constant search for programs, products, and...
How Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP) leverages Elevate LMS
Katherine Shamapande, Director of Education explains how CHAP seamlessly implemented the learning management system (LMS) Elevate, yielding unprecedented results. Through Elevate's detailed reporting and tracking , CHAP can fully measure and understand their members'...
Convert Your Competitors into Distribution Channels
We see it frequently, that is, associations being threatened by new, innovative and well-funded competitors of all shapes and sizes. Indeed, it’s daunting to witness new players encroaching in our territory, challenging the relevancy of our once well-insulated...
Rise of the Learning Management System
For many of you, offering a professional learning portfolio is core to your association’s mission. In fact, it’s one of the main reasons our community exists in the first place. Your members need to remain abreast of what’s happening in their profession, and they...
Attention iMIS Users! CommPartners and ATS Establish Integration between Elevate LMS & iMIS AMS
We teamed up with Association Technology Solutions to create a robust integration bridge between our award-winning LMS and iMIS AMS. This integration empowers our mutual customers with a unified process for authentication, registration and reporting to optimally leverage the value of both applications…
CommPartners Expands Integration Ecosystem with ACGI Software to Provide Seamless Member Experiences
Columbia, MD – January 13, 2016. CommPartners announces a new partnership with leading Association Management System provider, ACGI Software, to offer both client communities a seamless solution for integrating Elevate, CommPartners’ award-winning Learning Management System, and ACGI Software’s, Association Anywhere AMS…
ASHA’s Migration to Managed Webinars Yields Significant Increases in Efficiency and Revenue
Prior to my arrival at CommPartners, I had the honor of serving as the Director of Professional Development at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Like many of you, my department was charged with offering a diverse portfolio of continuing…
Elevate Receives Prestigious Award as Top Association Learning Management System (LMS)
CommPartners, an award-winning Learning Management System, Web Events, and eLearning provider, is honored to be recognized by Talented Learning as the association community’s second-best LMS provider. Released in 2014, the once newcomer, Elevate, is now standing-out amid the competition…
Taking Inspirations from Thanksgiving in Thinking About LMS Design
You know what’s almost as delicious as Thanksgiving dinner? Designing an LMS. Ok wait, that metaphor doesn’t really work. How about this, planning a Thanksgiving dinner may provide some insights in developing an engaging, impactful, and delicious…ok, maybe not...
Wake Up the Sleeping Giant: Make Your Association LMS the Go To Place for Learning
How would you describe your LMS? Is it a lively place where learning is active and always evolving or is it like the stacks in the back of a library where you sought a quiet place to study? Can members gather in groups to have real time exchanges? Does it provide...
Authenticate to Create Relevant Learning Experiences
Technology has done something interesting to the word “authenticate.” Once meaning “to establish as genuine,” today, authenticate is typically associated with a correct matching-up of codes or reference numbers to permit access. It signals who the participant is and...
CommPartners Launches Event Producer Live Learning Platform
(Columbia, MD – August 10, 2015) CommPartners, a leader in online learning and events, is pleased to announce the launch of Event Producer, our second education platform from the Elevate Learning Management Suite. Event Producer was designed specifically to build...
Developing a Culture of Empathy
A recent article in The New York Times presented a simple yet bold statement, empathy is a choice. The article, prepared by researchers in the field of cognitive science, and viewable here, shared a multitude of studies that suggest that a lack of empathy to the...
CommPartners to Team with Velvet Chainsaw Consulting For Online Education
(Columbia, MD – June 15, 2015) CommPartners, a leader in online learning and events, is pleased to announce that it has been selected to provide its learning management system, Elevate LMS to Velvet Chainsaw Consulting (VCC) to support the evolution of its online...
The Hidden Value of AMS-LMS Integration
There are so many AMS offerings available. Most of us know the companies serving the association community. Names like: Abila, Personify, iMIS, Aptify, Association Anywhere and Protech, to list a few. Why is integration with these systems and others so critical to the...
Social Learning, Backed by Science
“Social learning” is quite the buzzword today, isn’t it? With access to information on literally any topic, and the immediate thoughts and reactions of our friends, family, influencers, and favorite strangers all contained in a device we carry around in our back...