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Lance Yoder and John L. Moore on Workforce Collaboration

December 17, 2020 By Shannon Abram

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...]

3 Ways to Increase Member Engagement From SAS, Cloudera, and National Instruments

December 10, 2020 By Shannon Abram

Need to increase engagement in your online community? Three companies share ways they increase engagement with their online audience. If you are struggling with engagement in your online community then you aren't alone. Improving and maintaining online engagement is the number one challenge for … [Read more...]

Elizabeth Kohler on Engaging Online Learners

July 20, 2020 By Shannon Abram

Elizabeth Kohler Community Manager

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...]

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

May 14, 2020 By Shannon Abram

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...]

How can I use our community to empower members?

May 7, 2020 By Shannon Abram

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...]

Driving Community Participation and Engagement With Gamification

April 27, 2018 By Shannon Abram

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Electronic Arts Inc., a leading global interactive entertainment software company, delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets to hundreds of millions of players worldwide. With an online gaming network that is home to … [Read more...]

How can I use gamification to increase community engagement?

February 6, 2018 By Shannon Abram

Community Gamification

Gamification is the skill of understanding what game-based motivators may drive community members and how to use those motivators to help members get value out of the community that they may not initially recognize. Often times gamification efforts appear in the form of points, badges, or 'games' … [Read more...]

Ensuring Consistent Brand Voice through Community Governance

September 13, 2017 By Shannon Abram

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When we talk about the eight competencies of the Community Maturity Model people tend to get really excited about the work they do for culture, or content and programming. There are even those among us (Jillian, I'm looking at you!) that get super fired up about metrics and measurement. … [Read more...]

Tips from H&R Block: How to Write a Winning Lithy

April 24, 2017 By Shannon Abram

For a long time Lithium user and community professional, there are few things as sweet as winning a Lithy. It feels like just yesterday I was standing shoulder to shoulder in an exuberant and well-dressed crowd of peers, excitedly clutching my glass of champagne, and reveling in the atmosphere of … [Read more...]

Introducing: Community Case Studies from TheCR Network

March 20, 2017 By Shannon Abram

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The number one request we get from community practitioners is to hear the stories of other people, facing the same challenges they are. And it's not just anecdotal - our research has shown that while every community is different, data proves that communities with different use cases face similar … [Read more...]

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