The Community Roundtable

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The Benefits of Community Benchmarking

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Do you ask these questions as you do community planning? What’s next for my community? How do I provide community insights to my organization and executive stakeholders? Where is my community budget best spent? How do I help my stakeholders understand what goes into community management? How do I … [Read more...]

CCC 2015 Fun Fact #4: Community strategy is YOUR job

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By Ted McEnroe, Head of Research, The Community Roundtable Want to send your boss through the roof in under five seconds? Tell them these four words. "It's not my job." Want to send your top talent out the door as fast as their resume can carry them? That might take five. "It's not up to … [Read more...]

The three career paths of the community professional

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By Ted McEnroe, Head of Research, The Community Roundtable One of the target goals that we had for the Community Careers and Compensation survey in 2015 was to be able to shed more light on the skills of community. That's why we undertook a significant review and revision of the Community Skills … [Read more...]

Taking your next steps in a community career

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By Ted McEnroe, Head of Research, The Community Roundtable In D.C., there is something known as "the Washington Read." When a new book comes out, you flip straight to the index and see if you were mentioned (for good or bad). The closest equivalent in TheCR world is in the Community Careers and … [Read more...]

Best Practices for New Member Leadership Programs

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Every online community – internal (employee community) and external (custom community) – has a handful of dedicated members who contribute more than the rest. Whether you have a formal superuser, advocacy, or membership leadership program, or informally track and interact with these members, now is … [Read more...]