The Community Roundtable

Empowering global community leaders with research-backed resources, training, and tools.

Evaluating Google+ For Community

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Toward the end of 2012 Google came out with a community feature on their Google+ tool.  And it sparked a lot of interest.  We're not sure about you but for a while we got many invitations to join new Google+ communities. With the holiday break that enthusiasm seemed to wane a bit but we're still … [Read more...]

Community Types and Terms Defined

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I have now officially been working in the online community space for just over one year and there still seems to be a lot of confusion and disconnects when people are talking about their community or talking with The Community Roundtable about how being a member of TheCR Network can help them.  And … [Read more...]

Getting Down to the Business of Community Research

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The Community Roundtable has always had a two-fold purpose: Help our members who are community and social business leaders be successful, Educate the market about the role of community management. Because of this two-pronged view of our role in the market, research, documentation and public … [Read more...]

2012 Year In Reveiw

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Before we look forward, it's always good to take stock of where we've been, how much progress we've made and where we may not have done so well. For The Community Roundtable this has been a very full year and I am very proud by all we have accomplished. Our goal is to advance the business of … [Read more...]

Working in the Social World: Complex Adaptive Systems

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Last week I had the honor and fun of keynoting at Defrag. It was my first Defrag conference and I was not entirely sure what to expect aside from knowing it was a forum for deeper thinking about enterprise technologies. I was pleasantly surprised that both presenters and attendees were talking about … [Read more...]