The CNG is all about networking professionals and certification information. What can you do here? Create an account, choose or change your password and come back to update your information when you change jobs. The members’ FAQ page, titled “The Networking Power User Check List“, contains instructions on how to update your info, add or update your LinkedIn profile, change your username, and find other CNG members. Click here to read the Networking Power User Check List.

In 2004, when LinkedIn  made available group-related features on the LinkedIn Site that allows members of professional networks, to find, identify and contact other members of the group, the certification leaders of CNG starting using  this “connector” and “information-sharing” online, 24/7, immediately.

Here is how the CNG and LinkedIn invitation process works:

Step One: Register with CNG in the Member form and complete it, including your LinkedIn Profile URL. If you are not registered, you get no email and no announcements of meetings.

Step Two (if you don’t already have a LinkedIn account): Go to LinkedIn and create a profile using this link. Make your profile in LinkedIn as complete as you can. Go back to CNG site and add that LinkedIn URL to your Member Record.

Step Three: Use the CNG Member area site to find out who else is in CNG, to network, to advance your career and your knowledge.

Step Four: Use the LinkedIn for CNG site to participate in discussions and to get a lot more information about CNG people than we ask for to REGISTER.

If you are in LinkedIn for CNG but not REGISTERED in the CNG site, you are not included in the networking, mentoring and meetings of everyone who is registered in the primary website—the CNG home.

We actively encourage members of the certification community to forward the LinkedIn link on the home page  of the Certification Network Group to others they know are working with certification programs, in every sector, including associations, independent certification bodies, corporations, government agencies and private company  certifiers.

The Certification Network Group has members in nearly every state, thanks to LinkedIn and the virtual features of our own web site.  Most of all, certification professionals are a friendly, curious, fast-learning group of professionals who have information to share and understand the power and value of networking. If you have not yet experienced the professional growth and business value of LinkedIn, you will do yourself and your customers a favor by learning rapidly a few things that will connect you to people looking for your expertise.

Read and heed “I’m On Linked In—Now What???” by Jason Alba and learn rapidly with the blog behind the book.

Another great resource is the LinkedIn Blog

Here’s the best part.  When you are a member of CNG and activate your LinkedIn Group membership, you can see and access all of the other members of the CNG and carry on the conversations started in peand through introductions provided to you by others in the certification industry.