The Community Roundtable

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

2012 SOCM: Moving from Hierarchy to Emergent Community

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The 2012 State of Community Management report has a lot of information in it and at 57 pages it is beefy.  To those of you who have digested the entire document, thank you and nicely done!  But we also know it is a lot to wade through so we will be doing a series of blog posts to better show you the … [Read more...]

SXSWi Takeaways for Community Management

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This year SXSW Interactive was bigger than its music festival. Which is interesting as it started as a small community event and has become big business.  As always there was plenty to learn at this event for community management and social business pros and thanks to Fleishman-Hillard's … [Read more...]

Community Manager Training Scholarship – Apply Today

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We are humbled by the great reaction to the first module (Community Specialist) of the training program we launched in partnership with WOMMA and ComBlu.  We saw participation from both companies that are actively looking to train their teams on the intricacies of  community management and … [Read more...]

How To Build A Community From The Ground Up

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We learn so much from our network and enjoy sharing that information.  It is what we do, after all, advance the business of community for everyone in our circle.  Many have come to us asking how to get started, or do we think their community might work, or what they might do better. Here … [Read more...]

Getting Executives to Say Yes to Social

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There are many executives who are curious and interested in this whole social business phenomenon.  They want workers to try it, test it and see what it can do for the business bottom line...but what about participating? That is often where the process slows down or comes to a screeching halt … [Read more...]

How Community Management is Like Personal Finance

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Would you invest your money without the support of someone who understands the current marketplace, knows where trends seem to be heading and what strategy will be best to maximize that investment?  Many of us wouldn't.  And yet companies are often throwing open the door to community initiatives … [Read more...]

Inside TheCR Network: 3 Questions

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  We get great speakers on our member Roundtable calls for TheCR Network and they all speak wonderfully about their area of expertise.  But one hour is not really long enough to get to know them better.  So we're starting a new series where we ask them 3 questions.  Not about their expertise … [Read more...]