Certification Frenzy

It seems like everybody wants to create a certification program for their training. Let's not make this the next meaningless corporate "buzzword."

A good place to start is a document published by the National Organization for Competency Analysis. This document clearly lists the defining features of Certification and Assessment-based Certificate Programs, with similarities and differences.

2025 Update: The website has been changed to https://www.credentialingexcellence.org/

The document is now located at: https://www.credentialingexcellence.org/Portals/0/Docs/Accreditation/Features%20Document.pdf

This provides a roadmap to help you decide what type of program you really need and the considerations required to develop it.

Twitter

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) via SMS, instant messaging, email, to the Twitter website, or an application such as Twitterrific.
-Wikipedia

Check out this article at MarketingProfs.com about some of the possibilities of Twitter.