The Community Roundtable

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

Self-Care Tips for Community Managers

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Self-care is especially important for community managers because they're often carrying the emotional load for multiple worlds - your work world with a community and colleagues, and your personal life with family, friends, and everything in between. With all of the empathy, strategy, and tactical … [Read more...]

The Value of Community: Behavior Change to ROI

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The value of community is most easily seen in the way communities help achieve many business goals more efficiently than traditional transactional approaches. ​ All of these use cases can have enormous benefits to organizations, although not all use cases are easy to measure in return on … [Read more...]

Happy Community Manager Advancement Day 2020

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When Jeremiah Owyang, the father of Community Manager Advancement Day (formerly Community Manager Appreciation Day) approached us for a CMAD 2020 contribution we said, “YES!!” We work with innovative, enthusiastic, and engaged global community professionals and we knew they would have amazing … [Read more...]

Community Roles 2020: Three Myths BUSTED

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We have a long history of "busting" online community myths. 90-9-1 rule, we're looking at you. The latest edition of the Community Careers and Compensation report did some new myth-busting, and in case you haven't had a chance to read the whole report, we wanted to share a few highlights with you. … [Read more...]

Happy Joyous Merry

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Every year we say the same thing - we are so, so lucky to spend our days learning from the amazing members of TheCR Network. This year, in lieu of sending physical holiday cards, we've donated to three charities in the names of our members. The Ounce of Prevention Fund Founded in … [Read more...]

Vanessa DiMauro on Trust in Communities

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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...]

Taking Time to Recharge and Reset

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When I was growing up, my father had a paid sabbatical every seven years. This is common in academic and religious professions but less so in other careers. In those careers, it is provided as a time to study, travel, and reflect so that you can return refreshed. In the community industry, our … [Read more...]

TheCR Network Wrap-Up: October 2019

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We continue the discussion about career trajectory in the Network. On the heels of the invigorating Connect 2019, the community managers in the Network are discussing how to move both horizontally and vertically within the community space. This month one of the highlights was a Roundtable call … [Read more...]

5 Trends in Online Community Technology Solutions

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These 5 trends in Online Community Technology Solutions represent our observations and interactions with hundreds on online community management professionals and solutions providers. There has never been a greater diversity of tools offered, and the ongoing change in the online community … [Read more...]