Help us test a new way to use the education you've earned as a marketing tool

[Chris Morrell]

Hey everyone,

Nick and I have been brainstorming about ways that our members can use all the education they have access to as an InterNACHI member as a marketing tool. One of the things we came up with was an embeddable transcript, much like the certification seal, that shows all the InterNACHI courses you've completed. Your transcript is kept completely private, but if you choose to, you can paste a line of HTML into your web site which will show the (live updating) list of courses to your site visitors.

Even if you don't want to use this as a marketing tool, I would recommend taking a moment to check your transcript; in the near future we'll be using the transcript as part of a push to verify our membership requirements. It's also worth noting that we'll be changing those requirements slightly so that the ancillary courses are only required if you perform that specific ancillary inspection.

We wanted to release this early to the membership to get feedback, so please let me know if you come across any bugs (I'll be tweaking it over the next few days based on your comments).

Also, please note that the transcript only registers courses you took using your InterNACHI members-only username and password. If you took a course using a different username (for example, if you took an open-to-all course before you joined), please contact me and I'll try to update our records.

• My Education Transcript (members-only)

Cheers,

[Michael J. Merino]

I like the idea of having it on my wesite.

[Chris Morrell]

We're also going to add a way to embed it in your message board signature so our well educated members can show off

[William J. Decker]

Chris.

As to the thermography and building science course.

I presented it.

Doesn't that give me credit?

[Larry D. Kage]

There are at least three courses that I took that are not listed as completed.

[Michael R. Boyett]

Many of mine are showing as "Course Not Yet Completed"...yet, I'm pretty sure they are. ???

[Jeffrey R. Jonas]

Chris,

Nick presented this at the Milwaukee seminar tonight. I really like the idea. I think it was well received by everyone in attendance also. Great job.

Q: Will this also include CE that we've added, from other sources?

Jeff

[David P. Valley]

I personally do not like this as it does not include education credits that I've taken over the past several years from other sources.

I don't think it's fair not to list every CE credit that members have taken in the past, whether it was an iNACHI course or not. All my education CE credits were given by other educators in Massachusetts and are not included on my personal iNACHI transcript.

Chris,
Please reconsider the format....

[Bobby Hamilton]

Originally Posted by dvalley

I personally do not like this as it does not include education credits that I've taken over the past several years from other sources.

I don't think it's fair not to list every CE credit that members have taken in the past, whether it was an iNACHI course or not.

Chris,
Please reconsider the format....

Ditto

[John McKenna]

Originally Posted by dvalley

I personally do not like this as it does not include education credits that I've taken over the past several years from other sources.

I don't think it's fair not to list every CE credit that members have taken in the past, whether it was an iNACHI course or not. All my education CE credits were given by other educators in Massachusetts and are not included on my personal iNACHI transcript.

Chris,
Please reconsider the format....

Ditto...

Also... if you have not taken certain PPV courses, then the list
makes it appear you are still lacking something as a home
inspector. So why use the list?

Why not list only those things that you have completed?

Also... if we include the list in our signatures, as you suggested,
will not this cause some signatures to look like huge billboards?

[iniquette]

Originally Posted by jmckenna1

Ditto...

Also... if you have not taken certain PPV courses, then the list
makes it appear you are still lacking something as a home
inspector. So why use the list?

Why not list only those things that you have completed?

I agree. By showing stuff that we have not completed, for whatever reason, maybe we don't do radon, so didn't take the class, makes appear less in customers eyes.

[David P. Valley]

Originally Posted by jmckenna1

Ditto...

Also... if you have not taken certain PPV courses, then the list
makes it appear you are still lacking something as a home
inspector. So why use the list?

Why not list only those things that you have completed?

Also... if we include the list in our signatures, as you suggested,
will not this cause some signatures to look like huge billboards?

Thank you John. That's the point I'm trying to make.

If I use this particular list, I'm not worthy.

[klott]

Originally Posted by bhamilton

Ditto

Ditto, a lot of the courses I took here are not listed as well. Plus the outside CE's.

[James H. Bushart]

Who would benefit if members competed against each other for business/prestige by using the number of NACHI Tv shows as a measuring stick...besides those who profit from their sale, of course?

Frankly, this is tacky and demeaning.

Many professionals stay current through CEUs....but few list the seminars, etc as they do a degree or diploma. Why not list high school field trips, books you have read, or magazines subscribed to as well?

In this effort to impress....I don't think the impression will be a favorable one. I will certainly not participate.

[John McKenna]

Originally Posted by dvalley

Thank you John. That's the point I'm trying to make.

If I use this particular list, I'm not worthy.

Don't let it bother you. I think you are are worthy, no matter
what the list says about you...