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Calling all Community Managers: Declare Your Value

July 7, 2014 By Rachel Happe

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By Rachel Happe, Co-Founder of The Community Roundtable. Through our research, The Community Roundtable has helped organizations of all sizes scope and frame the challenges and opportunities of online communities. It is time for us to do the same for community managers. While the … [Read more...]

The Language of Engagement

June 24, 2014 By Rachel Happe

By Rachel Happe, Co-Founder of The Community Roundtable. Having a well crafted community strategy and roadmap is critical to enabling effective outcomes, but translating that strategy into your engagement approach is equally critical and often overlooked. People tend to communicate in online … [Read more...]

The End of DIY Community Management and the Rise of the Community Executive

June 16, 2014 By Rachel Happe

By Rachel Happe, Co-Founder of The Community Roundtable. The discipline of community management is growing up. For us at The Community Roundtable it's easy to see as the conversations have shifted from how we best execute on day-to-day community challenges to how do we transfer that knowledge and … [Read more...]

Announcing The State of Community Management 2014

April 22, 2014 By Rachel Happe

By Rachel Happe, Co-Founder of The Community Roundtable. The fifth annual State of Community Management report is here! A lot has changed in the five years we have been publishing this research and the State of Community Management 2014 continues to push the boundary of what we collectively … [Read more...]

Meet TheCR Team: Rachel Happe

March 12, 2014 By Rachel Happe

By Rachel Happe, Co-Founder of The Community Roundtable. If you had asked me a decade ago whether I wanted to start a company, the answer would have been a resounding no. But a funny thing happened on the way to the circus - technology, communications and organizational development collided in a … [Read more...]

Untangling the Community ROI Issue

February 18, 2014 By Rachel Happe

By Rachel Happe, Co-Founder of The Community Roundtable. While the ROI conversation around social business and community initiatives seems to have died down a bit as more practitioners have figured out how to measure value and share their approach, it still remains a barrier in setting … [Read more...]

Thanking it Forward – Fostering an Attitude of Gratitude

December 4, 2013 By Rachel Happe

By Rachel Happe, Co-founder of The Community Roundtable At The Community Roundtable we like to celebrate Thanksgiving instead of other end of the year celebrations. It both fits our ethos of articulating our thanks and it better fosters a sense of community than any gift ever could. We've been … [Read more...]

Are Online Communities Still Important?

November 6, 2013 By Rachel Happe

By Rachel Happe, Co-founder of The Community Roundtable Richard Millington recently wrote an excellent blog post titled A Hard Dose Of Data-Driven Reality About Online Communities, showing a decline in the conversation about online communities and partially attributes it to the rise of social … [Read more...]

The Social Executive Toolkit: Coaching Tools to Help Executives Use Social Media

October 22, 2013 By Rachel Happe

Over the past year we have compiled The Social Executive research which has produced deep insights into why and how executives adopt social tools and management approaches.We pursued this research because executive support is an increasing barrier to move organizations forward to the next stage of … [Read more...]

Open Leadership and Coaching Executives

October 2, 2013 By Rachel Happe

By Rachel Happe, Co-founder of The Community Roundtable Over the last few years, as social business and networked communications environments have become more pervasive, executives increasingly became pockets of inertia due to their more traditional modes of communicating and managing. But … [Read more...]

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