The Community Roundtable

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The State of Community Management Webinar

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Last week, we presented key findings from our State of Community Management report with Natanya Anderson from Powered.  We had an overflow of great questions and so much content it was hard to get everything in so I'm including the slides (the audio recording is here) and my responses to the … [Read more...]

The Commitment Required of Community Members

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We talk a lot about what is required to build and sustain communities as organizations and, along with it how to ensure communities produce value.  One thing that I haven't heard as much about is the commitment we require from our community members. However, it is impossible to have a productive … [Read more...]

The Fish & The Sharks

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Last week was full of fascinating conversations at the Social Media & Community 2.0 Strategies conference and the MarketingProfs B2B Forum and I'm just starting to digest it all but one of the concepts that really hit home for me was Adam Zawel's analogy for community members.  He noted that in … [Read more...]

Social: Moving from Head to Heart

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[This is a guest post by a Community Roundtable member, Michael Pace.] I know it's a foofy title or should be a Lifetime movie with Meredith Baxter Birney, so save the snark until the end. In November, I took a position at Constant Contact as their Director of Customer Support, focusing on … [Read more...]

Sonny Gill on Social Media Participation in Education

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The Community Roundtable has partnered with Voce Communications to produce a new podcast series, "Conversations with Community Managers." In this series, TheCR's Jim Storer joins forces with Voce’s Doug Haslam to speak with people from a variety of industries about their efforts with community and … [Read more...]

Shwen Gwee on using Social Media Tools to Grow Community

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The Community Roundtable has partnered with Voce Communications to produce a new podcast series, "Conversations with Community Managers." In this series, TheCR's Jim Storer joins forces with Voce’s Doug Haslam to speak with people from a variety of industries about their efforts with community and … [Read more...]

Rachel Happe on Social Media Vs Community

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The Community Roundtable has partnered with Voce Communications to produce a new podcast series, "Conversations with Community Managers." In this series, TheCR's Jim Storer joins forces with Voce’s Doug Haslam to speak with people from a variety of industries about their efforts with community and … [Read more...]

Community Manager Survey by Angela Connor

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Angela Connor - also known as @communitygirl on Twitter and the author of 18 Rules of Community Engagement - recently published a Community Manager Survey - available here for $39.99/$49.99 depending on format. In it, she covers questions about how the community management role is defined, how … [Read more...]