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CCC Fact #7: A well-deserved seat at the table for community program leaders

January 28, 2016 By Ted McEnroe

Community Program Leaders

By Ted McEnroe, Director of Research and Training, The Community Roundtable Hard to believe, but The State of Community Management 2016 survey is just around the corner. Before we get there, though, there are still plenty of highlights from the Community Careers and Compensation 2015 report to … [Read more...]

CCC Fun Fact #6: Where’s the money? Managing a community team or a large community?

January 11, 2016 By Ted McEnroe

Community Career Trends

By Ted McEnroe, Head of Research, The Community Roundtable Want to make more money as a community professional? It's the size of the team you lead, not the community you manage, that seems to make the biggest difference in community manager compensation. The data from the Community Careers and … [Read more...]

CCC Fun Fact #5: The demise of the lone wolf community manager?

December 15, 2015 By Ted McEnroe

Community Career Trends

By Ted McEnroe, Head of Research, The Community Roundtable It's one of the unfortunate clichés of the history of community management - the image of an overworked, isolated, solo practitioner, a lone wolf community manager, working to keep the community moving forward while the rest of the … [Read more...]

Four key takeaways from The Community Careers and Compensation 2015 report

November 12, 2015 By Ted McEnroe

Community Manager Career Trends

What are the most valuable skills for a community manager? What is the career path? And how much can one make? Those are among the key questions being answered in the Community Careers and Compensation 2015 report, which we released today at The Community Roundtable. It’s the second year we have … [Read more...]

Sweating the details: TheCR community research process

October 26, 2015 By Ted McEnroe

Best online research for community managers

By Ted McEnroe, Head of Research, The Community Roundtable What goes into the community research that The Community Roundtable does in the field of community management? Data, collaboration and experience. It’s an exciting day for me. Today I shipped out the first draft of the Community … [Read more...]

Perfection is the Enemy of Engagement 

September 22, 2015 By Ted McEnroe

By Rachel Happe, Co-Founder of The Community Roundtable. How do you react when you receive a perfectly crafted report? Hear an adamant and decisive opinion from an expert? Read Ikea instructions? Watch a TV show? Do you jump in and edit it or immediately mash it up into something different? … [Read more...]

The 11 Most Valuable Community Management Skills

September 15, 2015 By Ted McEnroe

Community Manager Skills and Talents

  Looking broadly, it’s exciting to see that community professionals are an experienced, mobile group that have had the opportunities to move up the community career ladder. Community professionals in the survey have an average of 15 years of experience, with five of them specifically in … [Read more...]

Introducing the Updated Community Skills Framework

September 9, 2015 By Ted McEnroe

Community Manager Skills

By Ted McEnroe, Head of Research, The Community Roundtable What do you say when you're asked to describe what you do as a community professional? I'm betting it's not an easy question to answer - particularly when it comes from Aunt Betty at the Thanksgiving table. What about when you try to … [Read more...]

Five reasons you should tell a stranger how much you make as a community professional

September 2, 2015 By Ted McEnroe

By Ted McEnroe, Head of Research at The Community Roundtable As you may have heard, The Community Roundtable’s Community Careers and Compensation survey is out now. The survey is one of our key pieces of research each year – a compilation of the skills, roles, responsibilities and yes, … [Read more...]

Community Starts with P

August 31, 2015 By Ted McEnroe

Best in class community

By Ted McEnroe, Head of Research at The Community Roundtable. That's P as in people. Anyone with a history in community can tell you that investing in people can have a major impact on your community performance. But when you look at the data from the State of Community Management 2015 survey, … [Read more...]

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