The Community Roundtable

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

2012 SOCM: Moving from Hierarchy to Emergent Community

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The 2012 State of Community Management report has a lot of information in it and at 57 pages it is beefy.  To those of you who have digested the entire document, thank you and nicely done!  But we also know it is a lot to wade through so we will be doing a series of blog posts to better show you the … [Read more...]

SXSWi Takeaways for Community Management

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This year SXSW Interactive was bigger than its music festival. Which is interesting as it started as a small community event and has become big business.  As always there was plenty to learn at this event for community management and social business pros and thanks to Fleishman-Hillard's … [Read more...]

Developing The Social Executive

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One of the hardest things that community leaders do is to help executives within their organization understand the value of communities and how to effectively participate themselves. It's not that executives can't learn but they are faced with unique challenges: Booked Solid: Executives have very … [Read more...]

Community Manager Training Scholarship – Apply Today

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We are humbled by the great reaction to the first module (Community Specialist) of the training program we launched in partnership with WOMMA and ComBlu.  We saw participation from both companies that are actively looking to train their teams on the intricacies of  community management and … [Read more...]

Is Community Management Strategic?

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If you have been doing community management for a few years chances are you think that it is or should be strategic. If you are a CEO chances are you haven't even heard of community management let alone prioritized it as strategically imperative. And there is the rub. The role of community manager … [Read more...]

Time for a little community spring cleaning?

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Ah! Spring and the age old tradition of spring cleaning. Throw open those windows, bring in fresh air and dust behind the couch....or rather...the forums. We asked our members how they keep things fresh in their communities, day after day, spring after spring. Here are their answers! What are some … [Read more...]