Practical writing on credential verification, certificate fraud, and how organisations issue qualifications that hold up. Written from running the platform, not summarised from elsewhere.
· 9 min read
Where certifications belong on a CV, the five things one entry should contain, the two that almost everybody leaves off, and what to do about a verification link that cannot be clicked because the page has been printed.
· 9 min read
Sharing a certificate and adding it to your profile are different jobs. What to put in the post, what to send a recruiter who asked for proof, why the image alone proves nothing, and what else a public credential page reveals.
· 8 min read
Where the download is, whether you need the PDF or the image, what to do when the issuance email is long gone, and why the file you are downloading is the least useful form your credential takes.
· 11 min read
Five routes an employer can take to check a candidate's certificate, what each one actually proves, why only one of them resolves in seconds, and how to turn any of it into a process that survives a hiring deadline.
· 9 min read
What happened to 48 credentials after they were issued: 505 recorded events across eight months of tracking, two thirds of them on mobile, most of the traffic arriving from LinkedIn, and the numbers that were less flattering than we expected.
· 10 min read
Nigeria's national credential scheme covers academic qualifications from post-secondary institutions. Here is what the gazetted policy says is in scope, the six words that never appear in it, and what that means if you issue professional or training certificates.
· 13 min read
Why forged credentials are cheap to produce and expensive to disprove in Nigeria, what that costs the institutions whose names are copied, and the part of the problem an issuer can actually fix.
· 8 min read
What actually changed in Open Badges 3.0, why it was rebuilt on W3C Verifiable Credentials, and an honest test for whether your organisation needs it at all.
· 7 min read
One template, one clean list. What actually breaks when you issue hundreds of certificates at once, and the data checks that stop a batch going out with the wrong names on it.
· 8 min read
What to examine when a certificate looks wrong, which warning signs carry no information at all, and why inspection narrows the question without ever settling it.
· 9 min read
Where certifications belong on a LinkedIn profile, the fields most people fill in wrong, and an honest account of when a certificate helps and when it does not.
· 12 min read
A step-by-step guide to checking whether a certificate is genuine: for digital credentials with a verification link, and for paper certificates carrying nothing but an issuer's name.