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Why Millennials Join Associations and What Associations Can Do to Keep Them

Association Adviser

Despite popular sentiment that millennials are disinterested in joining traditional professional associations, young people are uniquely positioned to benefit from association membership in important ways. Don’t make the mistake of lumping all millennials together or thinking they’re not joiners. .

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Building Buy-In for an Online Community at Your Association

Higher Logic

Many associations are looking to technology to help them achieve various goals like millennial recruitment and maximizing staff resources. Because online community is such an effective communication tool, staff spend less time solving transactional member requests or committee issues, for significantly reduced overhead costs.

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The Trick to Innovating with Gen Y

YourMembership

How Do You Innovate With Millennials? May 31st, 2012 | Posted in Member Engagement + Retention , Social Media and Business Trends. 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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Association Brain Food Weekly: 8.15.16

Reid All About it

Understand the potential costs—including hardware and software, implementation process, training time, and more—and how to weigh them against potential benefits such as money saved, time saved, and improved services, and advocacy. 5 Ways to Build Your Brand on Social Media. Presenter: Eric Leland, Founder, FivePaths.

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Five Essential Takeaways from #AskJP

YourMembership

Here are the five essential takeaways you should know: Shifting requires accommodating the millennials entering the workforce. Without question, associations are interested in connecting with millennials as both members and leaders. Millennial needs and wants are different than those of generations past.

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SXSW is here! Association Weekly Wrap-Up for March 8th!

YourMembership

Three millennials (two males and one female) also served on the committee. The three millennials asked some very tough and insightful questions. Yes, it’s trending right now in a lot of social media, but the ideas behind gaming dynamics and techniques are as old as human civilization itself.

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The Key to Attracting Millennials

Association Success

I am not an expert on Millennials, but I have three daughters aged 22, 20 and 18 so I am definitely gaining some basic understanding of how they think. Today, five years on, our membership is 47% Millennials, 34% Gen X and 19% Baby Boomers. That growth came from the Millennials. We did not lose the Baby Boomers. What did we do?