Community management skills are increasingly required for all management roles. That has not resulted in a corresponding increase in community hiring. Communities Are Now Strategic Executives finally see communities as intriguing options for solving their organization’s hairiest issues - from … [Read more...]
Community management salaries are on the rise
Happy Community Manager Appreciation Day, everyone! We enjoy CMAD as a chance to recognize the hard work thousands of community professionals do every day. But thank yous don't pay the bills. That's why this year for CMAD, we wanted to see how salaries for community professionals were … [Read more...]
CMGRs are Entry-Level? Not Anymore.
By Shannon Abram, The Community Roundtable. With the SOCM 2016 survey fully launched we have just one CCC fun fact left for you - and it's probably something you've known for a while. CCC Fun Fact #8: Community management isn't "entry-level" - the average community manager has more than 12 years … [Read more...]
CCC Fact #7: A well-deserved seat at the table for community program leaders
By Ted McEnroe, Director of Research and Training, The Community Roundtable Hard to believe, but The State of Community Management 2016 survey is just around the corner. Before we get there, though, there are still plenty of highlights from the Community Careers and Compensation 2015 report to … [Read more...]
CMAD 2016 – Unleash Your Inner Community Management Superhero
By Shannon Abram, Director of Marketing at The Community Roundtable It's no secret that we love community managers. We've sort of built our entire business around it! The truth is we not-so-secretly believe that every community professional has the ability to be a community management superhero. … [Read more...]
CCC Fun Fact #6: Where’s the money? Managing a community team or a large community?
By Ted McEnroe, Head of Research, The Community Roundtable Want to make more money as a community professional? It's the size of the team you lead, not the community you manage, that seems to make the biggest difference in community manager compensation. The data from the Community Careers and … [Read more...]
50 Essential Skills in Community Management
We're going to take a break from our weekly series of facts from the Community Careers and Compensation report to review the 50 essential community manager skills from the Community Skills Framework™. We updated the Community Skills Framework™ as a means to explore the value of 50 … [Read more...]
CCC Fun Fact #5: The demise of the lone wolf community manager?
By Ted McEnroe, Head of Research, The Community Roundtable It's one of the unfortunate clichés of the history of community management - the image of an overworked, isolated, solo practitioner, a lone wolf community manager, working to keep the community moving forward while the rest of the … [Read more...]
CCC 2015 Fun Fact #4: Community strategy is YOUR job
By Ted McEnroe, Head of Research, The Community Roundtable Want to send your boss through the roof in under five seconds? Tell them these four words. "It's not my job." Want to send your top talent out the door as fast as their resume can carry them? That might take five. "It's not up to … [Read more...]
The three career paths of the community professional
By Ted McEnroe, Head of Research, The Community Roundtable One of the target goals that we had for the Community Careers and Compensation survey in 2015 was to be able to shed more light on the skills of community. That's why we undertook a significant review and revision of the Community Skills … [Read more...]
