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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...]

A Community of Mustaches Changes the World

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  As sure as the leaves in New England turn into a technicolor display every Fall, so too can you expect the month of November to usher in a wave of mustaches. Some are robust and luxurious, some are...less so, but nonetheless the men (and women) of Movember raise money for prostate … [Read more...]

Holiday Tips for Internal Community Engagement

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We have become regular participants in a great weekly twitter chat for Internal communities also often known as Enterprise Social Networks or ESNs called #ESNchat.   Last week's talk centered on behavior in those communities around the holidays.  For the complete conversation from the chat … [Read more...]

Meet the TheCR Summit: Hacking Culture

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Here at The Community Roundtable we love online connections: watching members swap war stories in TheCR Network, listening in as problems get discussed and resolved on a roundtable call or even the growing comments on a particularly provocative blog post create real and meaningful relationships. … [Read more...]

Inside TheCR Network: Metrics and Measuring

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We are very lucky at The Community Roundtable to have Jillian Bejtlich on our team.  She has a strong background in enterprise communities from her time with Autodesk and great knowledge on metrics and analytics.  Her superpower however is helping people understand that metrics aren't … [Read more...]

Community Maturity Case Study: Rebtel

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As a thank you to those who participated in the 2013 State of Community Management quantitative study we selected 3 participants to receive an in-depth custom community assessment including performance benchmarks and next steps.  Today we have one of those company’s, Rebtel’s, perspective on why … [Read more...]

The Key to Community Success: Behavior Change

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by Rachel Happe, Co-founder of The Community Roundtable I often get asked whether a specific use case is a good candidate for a community approach but to me, I think about it a bit differently. A community approach is a strategic operational choice for achieving almost any organizational goal. For … [Read more...]

This Year’s All-Star Content

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Many of TheCR team are not shy about how much we love baseball.  So as we've hit the mid-point in our favorite sports season, we thought we would see who our website, blog and resources all-stars are this year.  Here is this year's starting line-up voted in by those fans who visit our … [Read more...]