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5 Ways to Put Your Community Members First

September 20, 2022 By Jim Storer

5 Ways to Put Your Community Members First

Online customer communities solve many tangible business problems. They can increase case deflection, lower support costs, enable distance collaboration, and connect global audiences. Customer communities also empower their members by making them feel seen and heard. Empowerment might not be on … [Read more...]

Creating a Positive Feedback Loop Process in 4 Steps

September 13, 2022 By Lindsey Leesmann

Creating a Positive Feedback Loop Process in 4 Steps

As a community manager, there may be days when you find yourself channeling a firefighter more than anything else. Issue after issue (ranging from things as simple as missing an update to as complex as a feature no longer working) rolls in from your members, and you can barely keep up before the … [Read more...]

Community Teams are Growing

September 12, 2022 By Jim Storer

Community Teams are Growing

The Community Management competency of the Community Maturity Model™ involves everything that ensures communities are productive. While community managers come from all walks of life and approach their role differently, they have the same goal: Build healthy, engaged communities where members learn … [Read more...]

3 Tips for Building Safe and Inclusive Community Spaces

August 26, 2022 By Jim Storer

3 Tips for Building Safe and Inclusive Community Spaces

Ashleigh Brookshaw has spent her career building community in the insurance, association, and now software spaces, so she knows her way around the foundations of community management. Still, some things surprise her. "You may think people would want to create a welcoming environment for all but … [Read more...]

Ashleigh Brookshaw on DEIB in Community

August 25, 2022 By Jim Storer

Ashleigh Brookshaw on DEIB in Community

Lessons from The NEW Community Manager Handbook is a limited-run podcast series, featuring the 21 community leaders showcased in the Handbook in conversation with Anne Mbugua. Episode 11 features Ashleigh Brookshaw, Senior Manager - Customer Experience & Community at NICE … [Read more...]

Three Ways Verint Community Drives Success

August 24, 2022 By Guest User

Three Ways Verint Community Drives Success

Online community case studies from Sage Software, Olympus Cameras, and Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). This guest post is sponsored content provided by Verint. Learn more about Verint here. More and more companies understand that support communities can play a key role … [Read more...]

4 Things to Consider When Launching a Community Mentorship Program

August 23, 2022 By Lindsey Leesmann

A white coffee cup and pad of paper sit next to powered off laptop. Community 101: 4 things to consider when launching a community mentorship program

Mentorships have existed, well, forever, and they’ve always been an excellent way to share knowledge. But with the COVID-19 pandemic, loads of mentorship programs have had to shift from in-person to virtual, and that’s not always an easy feat. Not easy, but not impossible — especially with these … [Read more...]

Anne Larsen on Community Culture

August 22, 2022 By Jim Storer

Anne Larsen on Community Culture

Community Conversations is a long-running podcast highlighting community success stories from a wide variety of online community management professionals. Episode #83 of Community Conversations features Anne Larsen, Applications Consultant at Grundfos. On this special State of Community … [Read more...]

3 Tips for Planning Effective Virtual Events

August 19, 2022 By Jim Storer

3 Tips for Planning Effective Virtual Events

What's one important thing to consider as you move to virtual or hybrid events? Alex Blanton, Principal Community Program Manager, Office of the CTO / AI & ML Community was surprised by a basic lack of attention to detail, "One of the things I found out when we went online is people don't really … [Read more...]

Alex Blanton Shares Advice for Virtual Events

August 18, 2022 By Jim Storer

Alex Blanton Shares Advice for Virtual Events

Lessons from The NEW Community Manager Handbook is a limited-run podcast series, featuring the 21 community leaders showcased in the Handbook in conversation with Anne Mbugua. Episode 9 features Alex Blanton, Principal Community Program Manager, Office of the CTO / AI & ML … [Read more...]

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