The Community Roundtable

Empowering global community leaders with research-backed resources, training, and tools.

Inconsistency in Community Roles Creates Uncertainty

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Community roles are more differentiated than they were just a few years ago, but they still lack consistency and rationalized salaries. Our sample includes individual contributors all the way up to vice presidents and over a third of community teams include more specific roles, including community … [Read more...]

Communities Enable Thriving and Adaptive Ecosystems

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Communities are often mistaken as approaches for a single use case – and they can be successful that way. For decades, online communities used in a business context were often focused on customer support case deflection and 74% of external community programs still identify this as a functional … [Read more...]

Advanced Online Community Strategies Enable Success

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Successful communities are generative, with success and impact leading to more success and impact. Community returns, by their nature, benefit more than one participant, thanks in part to the trust and transparency that they enable. This typically results in consolidated and transparent information, … [Read more...]

Online Communities Empower Individuals

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Behaviors are the repeating patterns, or fractals, that makeup culture. Ultimately, culture determines what is possible economically. by looking at language and the engagement behavior it prompts, culture can be seen and measured. does no one respond after an executive speaks? That may suggest a … [Read more...]

Online Communities Propel Engagement

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Communities are central to the human experience. Communities are all around each of us and whether we recognize them explicitly, they have immense influence on our reality, our happiness, and our success. The communities we engage in define norms with which we unconsciously comply, hardwired as we … [Read more...]

Q&A from the SOCM 2019 Webinar

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Missed the SOCM 2019 webinar? Access the Archive here. During the SOCM 2019 the audience asked GREAT questions. In case you missed the webinar or were too engrossed in the slides to check out the chat, we've saved the Q&A for you. We even added in some answers to questions we didn't get to … [Read more...]

Monique van den Berg, Atlassian

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Welcome to the latest episode in our community management podcast series, “Conversations with Community Managers.” Join TheCR’s Jim Storer and Shannon Abram as they chat with community managers from a variety of industries about their community journey. They ask the community … [Read more...]

TheCR Connect Big Idea: Lakshmi Balachandra

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Lakshmi Balachandra is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College and her research examines the impact of trust, gender and other entrepreneurial characteristics in acquiring early-stage funding. Through our State of Community Management research, we've uncovered parallels … [Read more...]