The Community Roundtable

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

Ryan Paugh on Tone and Passion in 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 Management Conferences and Events

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Conference season is warming up and there are a lot of community and social media events we will be participating in over the next few months.  While the events we'll be attending are in Boston the conferences will bring in experts from around the country and should be on your short list if … [Read more...]

Cindy Melzer on Starting Community Management

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I had a serendipitous intro recently with a couple of different people from Isis Maternity - a local childcare retail and services company - and we got to chatting about online communities. They have operated in a community-centric way in the offline world for quite some time - bringing parents … [Read more...]

Tim Walker on Community Manager Vs. Social Media Manager

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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...]

Avoiding the Community Clique

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Finding people who share the same interests, perspectives, and passions that we do is part of the visceral power of communities. It is inherently human that we love to engage and form tight relationships with people to whom we can relate. We can congratulate ourselves if we've built a community … [Read more...]

DJ Waldow on Scale Issues and a Day in His Life

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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 … [Read more...]

Relationship Inflation and the Role of Communities

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Umair Haque wrote a very thought provoking post The Social Media Bubble for the Harvard Business Review where he talked about social media's inflationary effect on relationships and with it the devolution of the value we can expect from them. He argues that while we may have a lot more … [Read more...]

Community Management Advisory Services & Webinar

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While The Community Roundtable is primarily a peer and educational network for community and social media managers, we have been asked by various customers to help them with internal education, advisory services, and feedback on their social strategies.  We have provided two primary types of … [Read more...]

The State of Community Management 2010

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Community management is emerging as a critical discipline for managing social initiatives. From those focused on marketing, to those focused on support, collaboration, knowledge management, human resource development and innovation, community managers are the glue that hold it all together. Yet, … [Read more...]