The Community Roundtable

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

Benchmarking Community Performance

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How do you get the data to support an increased budget? What about getting C-Level to take notice of your community successes? Ricoh found benchmarking community performance was key to their growth. With the rapid change in workplace technology and tools, Ricoh wanted to ensure a strategic plan … [Read more...]

Powering Behavior Change Through Community

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The Conference Board planned a big community launch for April 2020. One thing they didn't plan on was a global pandemic. Learn how the community team at The Conference Board leveraged their new community to drive increased member retention and improve the member experience, effectively … [Read more...]

Using Rewards Programs to Drive Engagement

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As organizations increasingly use community-led programs to connect with their customers, their online ecosystems expand. What may have started as one centralized community can extend into many brand- or solution-specific online hubs. Specialized communities can attract more engaged and enthusiastic … [Read more...]

The NEW Community Manager Handbook

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The NEW Community Manager Handbook started as a series of twenty-one interviews with community leaders from organizations like Analog Devices, Inc, Easterseals, Microsoft, PTC Software, the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, the World Bank Group, and many more. The conversations, led by Anne … [Read more...]

Three Ways to Re-Energize a Quiet Online Community

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Inheriting a community with 39,000 members sounds like a dream come true, except for when the engagement rate is <1% — oh, and a lot of the members are upset because they were moved to a new platform without warning or resources. Welcome to the world of Extreme Networks when Sam Pirok started as … [Read more...]

Using Community Dashboards to Tell a Story

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A thoughtful narrative combined with powerful metrics can help you tell your community story in a way that connects with stakeholders and executives, unlocking additional resources and providing you with needed advocates in your corner. But, how do you decide what story to tell? Many community … [Read more...]

Elizabeth Kohler on Engaging Online Learners

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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...]