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Friday Roundup: Fundamental Questions about Community Value

January 16, 2015 By Ted McEnroe

By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable Another week in the books at The Community Roundtable - and it seems like the second week of the New Year had people thinking more about some of the fundamental questions about community value. Rachel sparked one of the bigger reactions of the week with a … [Read more...]

Fighting the sophomore slump in your community planning

January 13, 2015 By Ted McEnroe

By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable Welcome to the second full week of 2015. Remember the vim and vigor with which you sat down at your desk last week? The whole year was ahead of you. A clean slate. You laid out a dozen priorities for the year and… haven’t started any of them. Last week … [Read more...]

Friday Roundup: Fast Start, Big Thoughts in Community to open 2015

January 9, 2015 By Ted McEnroe

By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable 2015 is off to a rip-roaring start at The Community Roundtable. In TheCR Network, the first Roundtable call of the year is in the books, the Working Out Loud threads are buzzing and interaction is everywhere. For TheCR as a whole, the New Year has meant … [Read more...]

Recurrent hits: 8 community management basics from the Community Roundtable blog

December 23, 2014 By Ted McEnroe

By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable Back when I worked in radio - which is now long enough ago that new songs I played are now featured on oldies stations - I was introduced to the concept of recurrents. Recurrent songs sort of fall between "new" and "old". They are the hits just past - and … [Read more...]

Friday Roundup: All We Want for Christmas are Community Fellows

December 19, 2014 By Ted McEnroe

By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable It's been far from quiet at TheCR Headquarters over the past year, and we expect things will keep growing over the next year. So this week, we announced we are tripling our Community Fellow program, looking for three Fellows for 2015 in community … [Read more...]

The Community Roundtable and TheCR Network go #CMAD coast to coast

December 19, 2014 By Ted McEnroe

By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable It's the time when even late-starters are focusing on Christmas, but at The Community Roundtable, we are already thinking about the 26th - of January. That's the date for Community Manager Appreciation Day (which we like to think of as Community Manager … [Read more...]

Friday Roundup: The beginning of the (year-)end in community

December 12, 2014 By Ted McEnroe

By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable Where does the time go? After a week that started wet in the East and ended wet in the West, we have just one more full work week in 2014. It's that time of year when things start to feel quiet because everyone is head down wrapping things up, before the … [Read more...]

#thankitforward – Present, past and forever

December 11, 2014 By Ted McEnroe

By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable. New jobs bring with them some adjustments – to new roles, new responsibilities and new cultures. One of the many parts of the culture at The Community Roundtable I value greatly is the understanding that people are the heart and soul of everything we do. … [Read more...]

5 Community Management Lessons from Mayor Menino

November 3, 2014 By Ted McEnroe

By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable Few things in life are certain. But one of them is that Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who died Thursday at the age of 71, would never have been an online community manager. The mayor, who served the city he loved for 20 years, was noted for, among other … [Read more...]

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