Group Management – Are You Doing It Right?
Managing a group of people, whether small or large, can be a huge task. There are so many factors into making sure a project runs smoothly. Such factors include communication, completion of tasks, uploading files, reviewing each others’ work, reminders, tracking time, and so much more. What is a group? Before we get into the […]
Tips that Encourage Member Engagement
After writing the recent blog post about making your College a leader in its industry, we’ve received some questions about how to increase member engagement. As a vendor for association management software and regulatory body software, we’re concerned about member engagement from the perspectives of our clients, Using tools to engage with our own clients, […]
Protect Your Association from a Privacy Breach
Let’s face it, privacy breaches DO happen and they are scary. They are also preventable and able to be prepared for to minimize damage caused by a breach. A privacy breach is when there is unauthorized access to, or collection, use, or disclosure of, personal information. It’s basically the robbery of the right to the privacy […]
5 Tips to Better Online Engagement at your Association
Member engagement isn’t everywhere While member engagement is crucial to being a successful College or association, using every method out there on social media is the wrong direction to go. So you hear about Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Tumblr, and the list goes on… Should you use all of them to reach the now younger members of your […]
The New RHPA in Manitoba – What Should My College Do?
New Rules for Manitoba’s Healthcare Regulatory Bodies With the new Regulated Health Professions Act (RHPA) in Manitoba, healthcare regulatory bodies will need to start considering how their existing system will track some of the now required information by the new RHPA. There are 22 health-care professions that are government regulated and the rules have recently been […]
Man in the Cloud Hackers (Protect Your Association)
Today we’ll be describing a lesser known hacking occurrence called “Man in the Cloud” (MITC) hackers. Imperva Application Defense Centre research arm released a report a few weeks ago describing this issue in great detail. Alinity is a cloud-based service, but other cloud services such as Dropbox, GoogleDrive, OneDrive etc. are the targets of the MITC hackers. Instead […]
Making Your Regulatory Body a Leader to Members
A regulatory body, while keeping the public protected and enforcing government policies, should not be only responsible for keeping members compliant but for also providing leadership. Leadership doesn’t just mean that the members need to listen and follow the rules of the College because they have to; it means a regulatory body should strive to be a […]
Make Your Life Easier: Recycle Email Content
Communicating through email, as we all know, is fast and effective. Creating emails, however, can be a pain! We often write the same things over and over, and just update a few things here and there to communicate a new message. Why keep starting emails from scratch when it can be easier? If you’ve created an […]
Email Management: Let Others Read Your Email!
Let others read my email?! What?! No, it’s not what you think! Just read on… Have you ever locked yourself out of your house? What do you do once you are locked out of your house? You pretty much are stuck to have to wait until someone lets you in because you don’t have access […]
Public Registry Best Practices for Regulatory Bodies – Part 2
What should a public registry look like? In part 1 of this series we talked about what a public registry is used for and showed a couple of examples of registries that were very simple or medium level amounts of details. In this post we’ll show an example of a public registry that shows much more […]