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Best of the Web: April 2014

Association Adviser

We Can’t All Blame Ourselves: Why Millennials Need to Pull Their Own Weight. Regardless of change and differences in generation styles, there are areas where it’s still appropriate to expect Millennials to conform to traditional ethics and hard work. May 19-21, 2014. May 28-31, 2014. June 17-18, 2014.

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The World of Opportunities for AMCs: A YM Perspective

YourMembership

This week YourMembership.com is “on the road” in Tempe, Arizona attending the 2014 AMC Institute Annual Meeting. Younger members, especially millennials, have experienced technology as a key component of their entire education experiences, have expectations that will put pressure on associations not investing in current technology.

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What Should You Make of the “Pivot to Video”?

Associations Now

And that is leading to situations like the one that faced the startup millennial-focused news outlet Mic last week. But strangely, this logic seems to go against the recent headlines we’ve seen around this—including a Pew study that found the old-standby email newsletter is more successful than a standalone app.

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How Much Do Your Employees Know About Their Benefits?

Associations Now

According to a new survey [PDF] by employee engagement and communications company GuideSpark, 43 percent of millennials and 30 percent of non-millennials are not reading most of their handbooks. According to MetLife’s 2014 “ U.S. online or paper newsletters (39 percent). intranet (48 percent). benefit fairs (26 percent).

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How our Tumblr experiment started a global conversation

Achieve

MCON 2014. , In less than a month (June 2014), we soared from 0 followers to more than 7,200. In these three short months, we’ve generated about 500 thoughts, ideas, what-ifs and even a few jokes about Millennials, causes, social movements and corporate social responsibility by tending to our Tumblr account. (Internet Retailer).