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Join TheCR Team: CMGT Fellow Wanted

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Do you want to join The Community Roundtable team and become a skilled community manager? We are thrilled to announce that we are hiring a Community Management Fellow. Why a Fellow? In short, a fellowship position at TheCR is a training role with a stipend. The Community Roundtable has hired a … [Read more...]

Jeff Ross on Building a Community Playbook

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Welcome to the latest episode in our community podcast series, “Conversations with Community Managers.” Join TheCR’s Jim Storer and Shannon Abram as they chat with community managers from a variety of industries about What’s your best advice for someone just starting out in Community … [Read more...]

Community Rules of Engagement

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By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. Today is a very exciting day - TheCR Network moved to a new home. After years on the same platform our dedicated community team spent the last few months packing up the old Network, and spiffing up our new home. I know I'm … [Read more...]

TheCR Network Sneak Peek: October 2015

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By Hillary Boucher, Community Manager at The Community Roundtable If you ever want time to fly by simply plan a community migration -- you'll be wondering what the heck happened to the last few weeks and months. While we prep behind the scenes to launch TheCR Network on a new, shiny community … [Read more...]

Sweating the details: TheCR community research process

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By Ted McEnroe, Head of Research, The Community Roundtable What goes into the community research that The Community Roundtable does in the field of community management? Data, collaboration and experience. It’s an exciting day for me. Today I shipped out the first draft of the Community … [Read more...]

Community Best Practices: Creating an Action Plan

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From values, to members, to tactics. Formulating an action plan for your community is where the rubber begins to meet the road. Your action plan highlights how you are going to make this community effective on a day-to-day basis. It needs to take into account the organizational environment in … [Read more...]

Succeeding at Complexity Is Deceptively Simple

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By Rachel Happe, Co-Founder and Principal, The Community Roundtable Note: This post was originally posted on Rachel's Linkedin page.  Training for a marathon is complex. What makes you successful is simple. Establishing the behavior that makes you successful is hard. While it wasn't a … [Read more...]

Community Best Practices: The Benefits of Starting Small

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If you are starting a community today – you are both blessed and cursed by history. Years of research and community development today offer more advice than ever on the best practices of community. But the growth of online communities generally can also set expectations that new communities should … [Read more...]

Why is a Community Roadmap Important?

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By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager, The Community Roundtable Note: the following post is an excerpt from Building a Community Roadmap, a free eBook published by TheCR. Download your copy today.  What is a Community Roadmap? A community roadmap gives direction to your community … [Read more...]