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Infographic: Drive Success with Basic Executive Coaching

September 22, 2014 By Jim Storer

This is a guest post by Dennis Shiao, our partner at DNN Software. You can learn more about DNN here.  According to the State of Community Management 2014 report from The Community Roundtable, members are more engaged in communities with executive participation. In fact, communities with … [Read more...]

How Do I Convince our Executives to Invest in Community?

September 15, 2014 By Jim Storer

executive investment

By Shannon DiGregorio Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. This is a short and sweet (as in "Sweet! Best practices I can use!) post on one of the most common questions we get at TheCR:  "How do I convince our executives to invest in community programs? Help!"  Through the … [Read more...]

3 Best Practices When Budgeting for Community and Social Programs

September 9, 2014 By Jim Storer

budgeting

By Shannon DiGregorio Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. 2015 may seem far away, but for many organizations Fall is when major planning and budgeting initiatives kick off. For many community and social teams their budget may cover everything from technology licensing, … [Read more...]

How can I get lurkers to participate?

September 4, 2014 By Jim Storer

Lurkers

By Shannon DiGregorio Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. No matter how much strategy building and content planning you do there are still going to be lurkers hanging out in your community, not contributing. The big question is: how do I convert those lurkers into engaged … [Read more...]

I need to build a community strategy. Where do I start?

September 2, 2014 By Jim Storer

strategy

By Shannon DiGregorio Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. Whether you are starting from scratch with a new community, or taking over an existing community that could use some love there is a good chance you'll be tasked with building a community strategy. This can be both … [Read more...]

Using the Community Maturity Model for Internal Consulting at Microsoft

June 26, 2014 By Jim Storer

Alex Community Maturity Model

One of the perks of TheCR Network membership is the opportunity for community managers to collaborate and solve challenges in working groups. Last fall, TheCR Network members formed a Community Maturity Assessment Working Group, with the goal of building a tool to measure the maturity of … [Read more...]

The Language of Engagement

June 24, 2014 By Rachel Happe

By Rachel Happe, Co-Founder of The Community Roundtable. Having a well crafted community strategy and roadmap is critical to enabling effective outcomes, but translating that strategy into your engagement approach is equally critical and often overlooked. People tend to communicate in online … [Read more...]

CommBuild Recap: Insights from the SOCM 2014

June 19, 2014 By Jim Storer

By Shannon DiGregorio Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. Last week we were lucky enough to guest host the weekly CommBuild twitter chat. If you aren't familiar with twitter chats you can check out our overview here, and learn more about CommBuild in particular here. Hosting … [Read more...]

Twitter Chats 101 – How to use twitter chats to connect with your community.

June 18, 2014 By Jim Storer

By Shannon DiGregorio Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. If you're on twitter (and who's not?) you may have seen, or even taken part of a twitter chat. We love this medium for connecting with your community - whether it's a community of like-minded professionals, … [Read more...]

How to Build a Community-Based Support Model: A Webinar with Ian White

June 11, 2014 By Jim Storer

By Shannon DiGregorio Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. Last week we were lucky enough to have Ian White, manager of support at Rackspace join us for our monthly Community Manager Spotlight webinar. Ian and his team have down amazing things with their support community - you … [Read more...]

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