The Community Roundtable

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Making Friends Into Co-workers, & Vice Versa

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By Jillian Bejtlich, Community Strategist at The Community Roundtable First and foremost, I'll be thanking Hillary (Boucher). See, back a couple of years ago she kept sending me messages letting me know about TheCR lunches in my area. Well, I finally went to one and met Jim. Then, I went to … [Read more...]

Friday Roundup – Turkey Sandwich Edition

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"Turkey for me. Turkey for you..." If you celebrated (American) Thanksgiving yesterday you might just be up to your ears with leftover turkey - and in a prime position to make my #1 sandwich of all time: the Tom Terrific. Today is the only day all year I can convince myself that putting more … [Read more...]

Thank It Forward 2013

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Building community -- no matter your end goal -- depends on gratitude and reciprocity. Since we'll be celebrating Thanksgiving later this week in the US our own team has been reflecting on the people who made a difference in our community work in 2013. In the spirit of reflection and gratitude we … [Read more...]

Friday Roundup – Life Moves Pretty Fast.

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'Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.' When Ferris Bueller spoke these immortal words he probably wasn't talking about missing out on great content online, but it's the first thing I thought of when discussing rolling out a Friday link … [Read more...]

Jillian Bejtlich Joins The Community Roundtable

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It is with great pleasure that we announce that Jillian Bejtlich has joined The Community Roundtable. She comes to us with strong experience and skills from her work as a community manager at Autodesk. We first met Jillian in TheCR Network, where she participated enthusiastically and expertly in … [Read more...]

The Dark Side Of Community Management

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Maria Ogneva started an important conversation with TheCR Network members about managing and avoiding community manager burnout. We thought it was worth extending and curating to a broader audience. Thanks to Maria for starting this critical conversation and for collaborating on this … [Read more...]

Check Out Our New Look

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We are very excited to introduce our new and improved website! While putting on a little make up and freshening up content is always a good idea, we wanted to rethink everything. Our goal with the new web site is to help visitors: Understand where they are on their journey to adopt social … [Read more...]

Inside TheCR Network: Putting Faces to Best Practices

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As we continue to advance the business of community we wanted to put faces and voices to some of the data we are collecting for our 2013 State of Community Management report.  Data is great but nothing really beats a more personal take on that data.  Add to that some real world tips that can be … [Read more...]