Best Practices Archives

Mentor Match: The Good, Bad and the Ugly On Getting a Program Started

February 10, 2014 By Jim Storer

Guest post by Laura Brook, Director of Community Development at OneFPA.org and member of TheCR Network. Last year, I was at our annual conference catching up with a colleague who used to work with me at the Financial Planning Association (FPA). I shared with her that we were about to launch a … [Read more...]

Friday Roundup – Connecting Through Community

February 7, 2014 By Jim Storer

By Shannon DiGregorio Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. The first work week of February is almost over and that groundhog has doomed us to another six weeks of winter! In Boston that meant another foot or so of snow, with more on the way! Snow or not, we're forging … [Read more...]

Connecting Through Community

February 3, 2014 By Jim Storer

By Shannon DiGregorio Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. Our great content experiment continues in February (read more about Janaury here) with a month-long focus on connecting through community. At first glance the idea of connecting through community is obvious - as a … [Read more...]

Guest Post: Talking with TheCR About The Business Of Community Management at Walgreens

January 28, 2014 By Jim Storer

Guest blog post by Chris Catania, Online Community Manager at Walgreens. This post originally appeared at www.christophercatania.com. When you’re building an enterprise social network at a large company and aiming to make your organization more social and collaborative, one of the most … [Read more...]

Guest Blog Post: 5 Ways Your Community Can Be More Engaging and Still Keep Your Sanity!

January 27, 2014 By Jim Storer

Guest blog post by James LaCourte, Online Strategist and Community Manager at Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina. He blogs at The Gaspar and you can find him on LinkedIn. 5 ways your community can be more engaging and still keep your sanity! Community Manager Appreciation Day is here again … [Read more...]

Friday Roundup: Building Connections

January 24, 2014 By Jim Storer

By Shannon DiGregorio, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. Build month at The Community Roundtable is past its halfway point - I've had a great time thinking about all the ways we build our communities. This week we looked specifically at building connections - not just connections … [Read more...]

Building Reputation: Your Reputation Lives Forever [Infographic]

January 16, 2014 By Jim Storer

By Shannon DiGregorio, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. This week we've been thinking about building reputation as a trusted expert in social and community matters. Equally important is the reputation that your brand has online - and as an extension of that the online … [Read more...]

Building Reputation: Becoming a Social Strategist

January 14, 2014 By Jim Storer

By Shannon DiGregorio, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. For many social media and community practitioners being viewed as an expert in something that everyone thinks they are great at (social media) can be a real challenge. Just because someone loves Instagram or has 500 friends on … [Read more...]

Friday Roundup – Building Value for 2014

January 10, 2014 By Jim Storer

As we head into the new year we're paying special attention to building value in our communities in 2014. Over the last week week we looked at resources you can use when you're building a social or community program, the value of social business and how to articulate the power of community … [Read more...]

The Value Of Social Business – Infographic

January 9, 2014 By Jim Storer

As we continue the conversation on the value of community management I think it's helpful to take a step back and think about social business as whole. This weeks infographic, originally published on MindJet is a great look at how companies think about social as a business tool. Not surprisingly, … [Read more...]