By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable.
Happy Friday! And Happy Start of a Long Weekend to many of our US readers. This week we spent some time as a team thinking about how we can inspire action in our communities. I highly recommend Simon Sinek’s TEDx talk “Start With Why” if you are thinking about how to authentically connect with your audience. For us it was a helpful callback to our roots – I’d love to hear what stuck out to you?
Things We Are Reading This Week
Energize your community: the generative power of co-creation – Ever have a conversation with someone who was focused solely on their needs and wants? Of course you have. It doesn’t make for great engagement. So why do we expect to engage members when we focus solely on our organizational needs?
The Organization in the Digital Age: 10 Findings for Digital Leaders – This post presents 10 key findings from The Organization in the Digital Age, my 9th annual report about the workplace. It is based on input from nearly 300 organizations worldwide. First I’ll share the 10 headlines, then develop each one.
Is the window closing on enterprise customer communities? – While a number of leading companies have succeeded in gathering their customers around them online, the process of socially engaging the external world increasingly looks like a zero sum game for the rest.
Simon Sinek: Start With Why: How great leaders inspire action – Ok, so this is technically a video, but we watched it as a team this week, and think you should, too.
How data can inspire creativity – Too often, data is viewed skeptically by artists and designers. Putting aside the many culprits for this—the segregation of art education from science and math, to name one—this skepticism is marked by what seems like perfectly reasonable logic…
New Social Media and Community Jobs
- Sr. Community Manager – Medidata Solutions – New York, NY
- Customer Community Manager – Invoca – Santa Barbara, CA
- Community Manager – Atlanta – Yelp – Atlanta, GA
- Community Manager – Next Caller – New York, NY
- Community Manager – iced media® – New York, NY
- Community Manager – Associa – Brentwood, TN
- Community Manager – Battlecry Studios – Austin, TX
- Online Community Manager – Actimage Consulting SAS – Washington, DC
- Community Manager – Z2 – Seattle, WA
- Community Manager – Rubi Tools USA – Miami, FL
- Manager, Social Media – Gemological Institute of America – Carlsbad, CA
- Social Media Marketing Specialist – Harry & David – Medford, OR
- Social Media Manager – Bentley University – Waltham, MA
- Social Media Manager – Wayfair – Boston, MA
- Social Media Manager – Clever Dog Creative – Remote
- Digital/Social Specialist – IBM – Austin, TX
- Social Media Coordinator – TechnologyAdvice – Nashville, TN 37210
- Social Media Coordinator – Stoney Creek Hotel & Conference Center – Des Moines, IA
- Senior Social Media Manager – Gretchen Scott Designs – Mount Vernon, NY
- Social Media Specialist – SUNPOWER by Hooked On Solar – Lincoln, CA
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