September 5, 2016
by Gary Fuller

CIPR’s Summer of CPD

CIPR Summer of CPD mailing including water bottle

We do a lot of work with the Charted Institute of Public Relations, including supporting their main corporate Drupal based site, the “Influence” site of curated aggregated content from their members based on WordPress and CIPR Ladder (member login required to view) which is their bespoke CPD (Continuous Professional Development) platform.

This year CIPR have again run their annual “Summer of CPD” to encourage professional development. To support their work on this, CIPR needed some new detailed reports from their CPD system to support their weekly, regionally based updates on the CPD achievements of their members.

We were happy to be able to derive this data from the Ladder system (after first extracting in from their Integra based membership system via API) and get that report to them in an automated way, taking a lot of time and pain out of sorting the data manually / via a spreadsheet. A few hours of development, a LOT of time saved for CIPR!