Build Staff Expertise

One of the critical challenges to our membership is keeping ahead of the curve in terms of new technologies. In today’s rapidly changing environment, keeping your staff up-to-date is becoming more and more difficult. IDEAlliance provides numerous opportunities to assist you with this task.

As a member of IDEAlliance, your staff will receive significant discounts to attend a broad range of IDEAlliance conferences and tutorials. In addition,  IDEAlliance Webinars are FREE to members. These online training series provide timely and critical content to your staff. All Webinars are archived, with members allowed FREE access to Webinar Archives. 

Discounted Conference Registrations
 IDEAlliance provides special discounts for conference registrations throughout the year.
Access to Online Archived Conference Proceedings
 
 Your IDEAlliance membership offers you access to past conference proceedings, ranging from print distribution, executive strategies, SGML, XML, Markup technologies, Knowledge technologies, color management and production. This virtual encyclopedia of publishing is available to members only.
Complimentary IDEAlliance Webinar Registrations IDEAlliance provides complimentary passes to IDEAlliance live and archived Webinars. Each IDEAlliance Webinar Series is the equivalent of a technical training course. This benefit alone provides significant cost avoidance for all IDEAlliance members and can alone justify membership dues.
Online Forums 
 IDEAlliance is establishing a number of Online Peer-Support Forums to provide technical support infrastructure for IDEAlliance members. These online communities of practice focus on a particular technical area of expertise including technical documentation, SGML/XML based publishing, digital workflows for advertising and more. IDEAlliance enables its members to add a team of experts to their projects without expense or travel.
The eNewsletter
 Published monthly, the eNewsletter is an informative email newsletter with news highlights and links sent right to your inbox.
Participation in Industry Leadership and Working Groups
 
 IDEAlliance has a clear focus on promoting industry-wide standardization and the development of best practices. Participation in an IDEAlliance group enables members to develop new technology strategies, develop business cases, network with industry leaders , set industry standards and direction and promote their own organization. Group participation enables IDEAlliance members to stay ahead of the technology curve and facilitate management, productivity and financial gains for both the members and the industry as a whole.