The Community Roundtable

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

4 Ways Engagement Benefits Communities

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The most effective communities strike the balance of a well-crafted shared value. Communities help individual members feel seen and heard. That potent combination leads to members feeling empowered and more likely to engage; they ask more questions, problem-solve, and tackle leadership initiatives … [Read more...]

Your Community’s Impact: How To Measure It

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By: Morgan Wood, Head of Community at Hivebrite. Note: This guest post is sponsored content from Hivebrite. Learn more here.  Building trust and growing your community requires communicating your impact, but measuring impact isn't always straightforward. Your choice of success metrics … [Read more...]

Benchmarks and actions for building better communities

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Note: This guest post is sponsored content from Common Room. Learn more here. In November, we published our first 360: Community-Led Growth Report from Common Room. The report offers insights and actionable next steps based on 141 communities at various stages of longevity, maturity, and growth … [Read more...]

3 Community Trends We Noticed in 2022

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We won’t give you another version of Spotify wrapped, but this is the time of year where one can’t help but reflect on what occurred in yet another historic year. What we’d like to share with you today are three community trends that we most look forward to exploring more of next … [Read more...]

5 Reasons Using Internal Talent is Good for Community

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Community managers tend to reside at the intersection where creatives and strategics meet, and as a result, they can sometimes take on too much on their own. When that happens, burnout isn't far behind, but it doesn't need to be. Why? Most community managers have a huge untapped resource at their … [Read more...]

5 Tips for Launching an Advocacy Program

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There's no better feeling than knowing someone has your back. Your community can get those same warm fuzzies with an advocacy or leadership program. No formal leadership or community advocacy program in place? It's time to consider starting one. What's an advocacy program? The easiest way to … [Read more...]

All About Building Member Personas

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Community managers know their members better than anyone, right? But knowing individual members on a personal level isn’t the same as knowing your community population, or what brought them to you in the first place. This short guide walks you through the foundation of building member personas for … [Read more...]

3 Elements of Community Personas

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Thinking about the personas in your online community is critical - if you don't know who you are creating content and planning programs for then you're unlikely to create meaningful engagement. A community persona is a group of users that displays a set of similar characteristics. Defining … [Read more...]