Shannon Abram, Author at The Community Roundtable

Meet TheCR Network Experts – Keeley, Jeff and Maria!

September 28, 2015 By Shannon Abram

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

September 24, 2015 By Shannon Abram

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...]

Five Reasons You Should Attend TheCR Connect

September 14, 2015 By Shannon Abram

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

September 8, 2015 By Shannon Abram

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”

August 27, 2015 By Shannon Abram

TheCR Connect Agenda

August 19, 2015 By Shannon Abram

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...]

Lori Harrison-Smith on the Challenges of Managing a Diverse and Dispersed Workforce

August 12, 2015 By Shannon Abram

Friday Roundup – Resources for Community Managers

August 7, 2015 By Shannon Abram

By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. Hard to believe that we've already reached the end of the first full week in August. Here in the Northeast we are still a few weeks away from back-to-school, but I've heard from folks in other parts of the country that their kids … [Read more...]

What I Learned about Community Management from Organizing a 1,700-Person Conference

August 5, 2015 By Shannon Abram

By Alex Blanton, Senior Program Manager, Community and Outreach - Information Management & Machine Learning at Microsoft, and member of TheCR Network. On May 28-29, we held our third Machine Learning & Data Science Conference here on the Microsoft campus. This is an internal-only event … [Read more...]

Friday Roundup: The Early Bird Gets the Discount

July 31, 2015 By Shannon Abram

By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. Today is the Early Bird discount deadline for TheCR Connect! Register today and save $50 off the cost of the event this October - and trust me, if you work in community you don't want to miss it! (And you can trust me - I'm … [Read more...]