The Community Roundtable

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

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...]

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...]