WBT News - Oct 2009

Welcome to the October edition of WBT News.

Much of the news this quarter is focused on the association market. E-Learning is certainly a growing area within associations and professional bodies.

Many associations are beginning their e-Learning journey and this can be daunting. Our best practice webinar in November with Jeff Cobb will provide advice and guidance to help make e-Learning initiatives successful. If you’re starting out, we’d definitely encourage you to tune in. Full details below!

In this edition we also provide a brief update on TopClass 8 upgrades, do an event round up and we also put the spotlight on two customers - ICON plc. and ELT. 

Happy reading!


The WBT Team

Best Practice Webinar for Associations with Jeff Cobb

WBT’s upcoming webinar on Nov 4^th titled “Failure is Not an Option” will guide you through the 5 basic principles to help ensure your e-Learning program is successful. And this won’t just be theory – we’ll provide real examples of association success stories. 

Key topics covered
 -  E-Learning pitfalls and how to avoid them
 -  Tips for selecting the right vendors
 -  Pricing and selling e-Learning to members  

Find out more and register

Customer Spotlight - ICON

When it came to training for ICON’s workforce of almost 7,000 global employees, keeping track of changing training requirements for the various job roles for employees in 38 different countries posed a huge challenge. The administration of filing, storing and tracking the paperwork and certifications for regulatory reporting was enormous. Using TopClass, ICON can now offer employees self-serve training with online visibility of their learning plans with self-registration of courses, from any location at any given time. Their reliance on paper has now been greatly reduced.

Read the full success story here

Society of Association Executive Annual Conference - Toronto

In August a few members of the WBT team travelled to Toronto for the Society of  Association Executives Annual Conference.  It’s the first time WBT has been involved and we were pleasantly surprised - both the turnout and the quality of the sessions & speakers was excellent. Some of the attendees shared their views on the value of the conference - click on the link below to hear what they had to say.

Listen to their interviews

E-Learning analyst, Jeff Cobb also briefly interviewed WBT's very own association consultant, Brendan Noud.

Listen to the recorded snippet  

Associated General Contractors of America - Annual HR Conference

AGC’s annual HR Professionals and  Training & Development conference  will be taking place October 27-29th in Atlanta.  AGC recently implemented WBT’s TopClass LMS and we’ll be attending the event and presenting on Managing Training Through an LMS. We’ll also be talking about the advantages of an LMS for chapters and chapter staff.  

Read more about the AGC Conference

Customer Spotlight - ELT

ELT provides specialized training in the area of ethics and compliance. Their challenge was to deliver company specific versions of their courseware to a client base of over 1,000 companies. They needed a solution that would give them the flexibility to deliver different versions of courses based on job role. Today TopClass provides them with a scaleable solution that meets their needs, and provides them with ample room for growth.

Read the full success story here