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CMAD Wrapup – Links for Community Managers

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Wow! Community Manager Appreciation Day sure has come a long way in 4 years!  Of course so has the discipline and roles of community management.  The amount of conversation, content and celebration from yesterday seemed to hit hyperdrive.  It was very hard to keep up and not get knocked over by the … [Read more...]

Appreciating Community Managers – Happy CMAD!

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When Jeremiah Owyang started Community Manager Appreciation Day (#CMAD) we were one of the first to jump on the bandwagon because community managers often work behind the scenes which means that they sometimes don't get the appreciation they deserve for often very challenging work. In the best of … [Read more...]

Evaluating Google+ For Community

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Toward the end of 2012 Google came out with a community feature on their Google+ tool.  And it sparked a lot of interest.  We're not sure about you but for a while we got many invitations to join new Google+ communities. With the holiday break that enthusiasm seemed to wane a bit but we're still … [Read more...]

Community Types and Terms Defined

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I have now officially been working in the online community space for just over one year and there still seems to be a lot of confusion and disconnects when people are talking about their community or talking with The Community Roundtable about how being a member of TheCR Network can help them.  And … [Read more...]

Getting Down to the Business of Community Research

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The Community Roundtable has always had a two-fold purpose: Help our members who are community and social business leaders be successful, Educate the market about the role of community management. Because of this two-pronged view of our role in the market, research, documentation and public … [Read more...]