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Daily Buzz: Is Your Culture Really “Innovative”?

Associations Now

Building an innovative culture? Start by not calling it “innovative.” As associations strive to strengthen workplace culture, creating “collaborative,” “innovative,” and “results-driven” environments is at the top of many organizations’ to-do lists. The post Daily Buzz: Is Your Culture Really “Innovative”?

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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. Many conference organizers are looking for ways to attract a new generation to their event.

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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 share in micro ways.

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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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Game Plan 2014: Seeing Around the Corners

Association Adviser

What surprised us most in 2013? InfoComm International , the audiovisual association, is one organization that does this very well, Stern said. “Associations also need to do a better job of reaching out to Millennials with an updated, more non-traditional membership experience,” she said. Re-thinking membership.

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Social Media Roundup: What Jeff Bezos Would Bring to an Association

Associations Now

— avectra (@avectra) October 2, 2013. Internet innovation: As founder and CEO of the e-commerce giant Amazon.com, Bezos knows a lot about the power of communication and word of mouth online. Without the fresh ideas that millennials bring, your association could soon hit a dead end. How would Jeff Bezos run an association?

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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. Innovation.