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How can I use community to remove bottlenecks from my organization?

May 14, 2020 By Jim Storer

How to use online communities to remove bottlenecks from organization

In an increasingly networked world, customers and members expect answers to their questions in near-real time. ​ Community programs provide a way to empower individuals to collaborate, share, and learn, while removing bottlenecks that can arise when multiple people are involved in a project … [Read more...]

Jennifer Erzen on the (Not So) Secret Powers of Community

May 12, 2020 By Jim Storer

Conversations with Community Managers - Jennifer Erzen

Join the community experts at The Community Roundtable as they chat about online community management best practices with a wide range of global community professionals. Topics include increasing online audience engagement, finding and leveraging executive stakeholders, defining and calculating … [Read more...]

Five Best Practices for Onboarding New Members

May 11, 2020 By Jim Storer

How to online new community members

How you welcome your new members matters - one of the most consistent findings in our State of Community Management research is on the impact of onboarding programs on getting new members to engage in a community. It makes sense – having someone welcome you, give you some ground rules on … [Read more...]

How can I use our community to empower members?

May 7, 2020 By Jim Storer

empowering members in your online community

When individuals are inspired, engaged, and empowered they fuel a self-reinforcing positive feedback loop. ​ Success breeds success because people see engagement rewarded, which in turn increases how comfortable they are engaging in the community themselves. People live up or down to the … [Read more...]

Managing Remote Teams: Ideas and Advice for Thriving Online

March 31, 2020 By Jim Storer

How to manage remote teams

The dramatic spread of COVID-19 changed what life looks like for millions of people - forcing people to evaluate how thriving online can impact their work, school, and personal connections. Colleges and Universities embraced virtual learning. Employers are closing offices and encouraging people … [Read more...]

Crisis Engagement Guidelines

March 25, 2020 By Rachel Happe

Crisis Engagement Guidelines

As a rule, community professionals work to minimize their engagement in a community, preferring to focus on orchestrating and designing the environment, so others engage. In a crisis, however, stepping in and providing a steady, moderating voice is required as anxiety takes hold. Crisis engagement … [Read more...]

The Role of Communities in Innovation

February 21, 2020 By Rachel Happe

Technology Adoption Rates

Communities play a critical role in innovation. Whether in the middle ages or now cities, in particular, are critical to innovation. Cities are a type of community that produces a high cadence of collisions between a diverse set of individuals. This collision of people and ideas allows people to … [Read more...]

The Community Maturity Model™

May 16, 2019 By Rachel Happe

How to improve online engagement

The Community Roundtable is 10 years old this spring. One of the first things we did when we started was to create the Community Maturity Model as a way to frame our view of how communities approaches develop over time. The Community Maturity Model™ serves several critical roles. It: Creates … [Read more...]

Open for Submissions: TheCR Awards 2019

May 14, 2019 By Kelly Schott

Best Online Community Consultants

For the fourth year, TheCR Awards are recognizing the excellence in community management that members of TheCR Network share on a daily basis. We see our members sharing incredible community work on Roundtable calls, in discussion threads, and in case studies. We hear stories about how their work … [Read more...]

How Do I Improve Online Engagement?

November 27, 2018 By Jim Storer

how to improve online engagement

Online community engagement issues fall into two general buckets: tactical engagement issues and strategic engagement issues. If you don’t have people coming to your online community at all, you have a strategic issue; if people are coming but not engaging, you have a tactical … [Read more...]

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