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Community Best Practices: The Benefits of Starting Small

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If you are starting a community today – you are both blessed and cursed by history. Years of research and community development today offer more advice than ever on the best practices of community. But the growth of online communities generally can also set expectations that new communities should … [Read more...]

Why is a Community Roadmap Important?

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By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager, The Community Roundtable Note: the following post is an excerpt from Building a Community Roadmap, a free eBook published by TheCR. Download your copy today.  What is a Community Roadmap? A community roadmap gives direction to your community … [Read more...]

Meet TheCR Network Experts – Keeley, Jeff and Maria!

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By Georgina Cannie, Community Fellow at The Community Roundtable One of the most exciting and valuable aspects of TheCR Network is the regular Roundtable calls we organize for members. These calls are most often lead by distinguished industry experts and experienced community practitioners. It … [Read more...]

TheCR Network Sneak Peek: September 2015

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By Georgina Cannie, Community Fellow at The Community Roundtable. Despite my best efforts to cling to summer temperatures, to seems that Fall has arrived in full force. While I might be feeling a little reluctant to pull out my boots and scarves from the closet, I am more excited than to welcome … [Read more...]

To Event or Not to Event? TheCR Connect!

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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...]

Five Reasons You Should Attend TheCR Connect

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By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. Our first live event is in less than 30 days - and registration is closing soon (this Friday, to be exact!) and there are only a few spots left! We know committing to a full day event can be tough so here are five reasons … [Read more...]

Ivonne Smith on Advice for New Community Managers

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Welcome to the latest episode in our community 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 questions … [Read more...]

Nicole Fusz on the “Unicorn Metric”

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Welcome to the latest episode in our community 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 questions … [Read more...]

TheCR Connect Agenda

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By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. TheCR Connect is the inaugural workshop in our regional events series. Kicking off in Boston this Fall, TheCR Connect is an event exclusively for community practitioners – those engaged in the development, implementation, … [Read more...]