If you've attended TheCR Connect in the past you know that we don't always bring in outside speakers. Some years 100% of our sessions are led by our amazing clients. Other years, the stars align and we have the privilege of sharing amazing ideas from new faces - like last year when Heather McGowan … [Read more...]
30+ Years of Community Resources
A couple days ago I paused to reflect on all of the people and resources that have helped me (and The Community Roundtable, our members, and partners) since we launched in 2009. It's not a short list. I put the question to TheCR team and we started to collaborate on a list of resources going back as … [Read more...]
To Event or Not to Event? TheCR Connect!
By Jim Storer, Principal & Co-Founder, The Community Roundtable I have a love/hate relationship with events. It goes back a few years, when I worked as a program director for an events management company. I loved being the guy who focused on bringing together all these super smart people to … [Read more...]
Selling the Value of Community Management to the C-Suite
Far from being a discipline thrust on the most junior member of the marketing team, community management is the future of all management. The ability to inspire and generate value from networks is what will enable organizations to truly take advantage of a digitally connected, global population. … [Read more...]
Become a Part of the Network You Need… Before You Need It
By Jim Storer, Co-Founder and Principal at The Community Roundtable 2013 has been an amazing, busy and productive year here at The Community Roundtable. Membership grew by 34% and we now reach members in thirty-one US states and seven countries around the world. I am personally thrilled with the … [Read more...]
Leadership and Cultural Traits for Social Business Success
(originally published on IBM Social Business Insights) Becoming a social business is all the rage. Executives are drinking the Kool-Aid, organizing teams to explore the use of social tools and networks to aid marketing, customer support, product innovation, employee retention and more. And these … [Read more...]
Danger: Community/Social Strategist Shortage Ahead
I've been thinking about this post for a long time. It started some time last fall when I was talking with a member of TheCR Network about how they should approach building out their social media/community team. In the course of the conversation, my recommendation boiled down to this... "hire the … [Read more...]
Coming May 15th! Community Manager Online Training Course
The next module in our online WOMM-COM community manager certificate program starts next week. We're really excited to bring together such an amazing group of practitioners to teach this course. Check out the instructors and we're sure you'll agree. The community manager course is designed to … [Read more...]
SXSWi Advice in Small, Snackable Bites
There will be ~286,450 blog posts coming out in the next 36 hours on how to do SXSWi right. While we probably don't need 286,451, I promise to make this one chock full of fiber and easy to consume. After three years at SXSWi, I have a few tips and will keep them short to make them easy to … [Read more...]
Introducing TheCR Focus: Your Guide to The Business of Community
When Rachel and I started building The Community Roundtable in 2009, we had a decision to make. Who to serve? We agreed it was hard to build a truly customer-focused business if you tried to serve too many constituents. In the end, we agreed to focus on the people we thought really needed help... … [Read more...]
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