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Reads of the Week: March 29, 2013

Reid All About it

It usually introduces me to well-written posts that I might have missed during the week, usually about the intersection of life and technology. People are too creative and innovative to not make it work. ” Speaking of millennials, another publication that’s getting their attention is Mental Floss. Reads of the Week.

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Strategies To Create Conferences That Angry Millennials Love To Attend

Velvet Chainsaw

Millennials are angry, vocal and hungry for social change says Nancy Lublin , CEO of dosomething.org and Umair Haque , director of Havas Media Labs in a September 2013 Fast Company article. Attracting Angry Millennials. Angry Millennials love conferences with meaningful experiences.

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Follow These Tips To Engage Millennials In Your Conference Experience

Velvet Chainsaw

Millennials are eager to connect, participate and give says the 2013 Millennial Impact Report by Achieve. Since 2009, the report has focused on Millennial behaviors that would interest many nonprofits and conference organizers including trends in communication, service and giving. Millennials crave and rely on peers.

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Why Jeff Bezos buying The Washington Post is great for associations

Vanguard Tech

However this news is personally comforting knowing since the newspaper I grew up reading will now be shepherded toward its future by a proven innovator who takes the long term view instead of eyeing the next quarter’s profits. We hear each day about the need for innovation, how “millennials don’t join,” and the “end of relevance.”

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Is Your Association at a Crossroads?

Association Adviser

Cain, a former corporate lawyer and negotiations consultant who delivered the opening keynote presentation at the ASAE 2013 Annual Meeting & Expo in Atlanta, said that American business and American culture—even parents of young American children—tend to value extroverted personalities more than introverted personalities. Technology.

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Game Plan 2014: Seeing Around the Corners

Association Adviser

What surprised us most in 2013? Year-round, 365-day engagement through technology and social media is one of the biggest trends she has observed. “Associations also need to do a better job of reaching out to Millennials with an updated, more non-traditional membership experience,” she said. ” Stern agreed.

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Reflections from Social Good Brasil and a New Word: PhilanthroTeen!

Beth Kanter

I’ve just returned from keynoting the first Social Good Brazil conference that took place in Florianapolis, sometimes referred to the “Silicon Valley” of Brasil and where the nonprofit, social good, innovation, and technology community is leading the social change movement. Teens As Free Agents. Un Foundation.