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The Trick to Innovating with Gen Y

YourMembership

Membership Software Association Management Software. Associations. Management Team. How Do You Innovate With Millennials? There have been many articles written on how to attract millennials and hopefully, by now, you’ve put some processes and activities in place to attract this very large generation.

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Chose Your Dimensions of Diversity and Get Started

Eric Lanke

Research demonstrates that millennials think about and define diversity in significantly different ways than members of previous generations. Baby Boomers and Gen Xers tend to think of diversity in terms of protected classes. Millennials are more focused on "cognitive diversity, or diversity of thoughts, ideas, and philosophies."

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Does Your Association Have a Private Online Social Community?

Virtual

But beyond the club’s reputation for world-class golf, it’s also one of the world’s most exclusive social clubs. Aside from contact at association meetings and conferences, how do they interact with each other? Increasingly, it’s via a private online social community, especially if your organization has lots of millennials as members.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 2.22.19

Reid All About it

Does your association have a popular conference workshop or training class you want to convert into an online learning program? Value can often be interpreted by just dollars and cents, but it goes farther than that when considering the impact your firm can have on the operations and success of an association. Young Members 2.0.

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Hear That Sound? It’s the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Engaging Members from Day One

Association Adviser

There’s an effort to say, “Well, Millennials want to be involved in this type of program,” but there’s no real data behind Millennial preferences in associations that differs from other age segments. That’s not just a Millennial thing; that’s a societal thing. You couldn’t identify them based on age.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.18.16

Reid All About it

Innovation today is moving at light speed and to deliver a world class member experience your association needs to be able to leverage a strong platform to take you there. – Preparing Yourself and Your Association for the Looming Staff Leadership Deficit. From Millennials to Boomers: Connecting with Members at Every Age.

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The Hourglass Blog: Generational Herd Mentalities

The Hourglass Blog

A little while ago, Neil Howe called attention on his blog to a New York Times feature story about a 24-year-old Millennial who, even amidst the Great Recession, is living at home and turning down $40K job offers until just the right opportunity comes along. Why should Millennials be spared that difficulty and humiliation? at 6:54 PM.