Community Manager Role Archives

Friday Roundup – The SOCM 2016 is Here

January 29, 2016 By Shannon Abram

By Shannon Abram, The Community Roundtable In case you missed it we launched the State of Community Management 2016 (SOCM) survey this week! Now in its 7th year, this research has helped tens of thousands of community management professionals evaluate their approaches, educate stakeholders, … [Read more...]

Friday Roundup – Community-Driven Companies Will Always Win

January 22, 2016 By Shannon Abram

By Shannon Abram, The Community Roundtable. Sometimes being a remote team means we miss out on typical water-cooler conversations that happen in most offices. Other times, like this week, we all get obsessed with the same thing and can't stop talking about it. We decided that even though this … [Read more...]

5 Things I Thought I Knew About Community Management…But Didn’t

January 19, 2016 By Shannon Abram

By Georgina Cannie, Community Manager at The Community Roundtable January marks the 10th month of my work in community management. While it feels like no time at all, I have come to realize that it is an eternity in terms of knowledge acquisition in this space. As I closed the door on 2015, I … [Read more...]

Friday Roundup – Community Trends

January 15, 2016 By Shannon Abram

By Shannon Abram, Director of Marketing at The Community Roundtable Do you ever gaze into your community crystal ball and think about the future of communities? This week Rachel did (minus the crystal ball part) and shared 10 Trends for the Future of Communities. You can the 10 community trends … [Read more...]

Friday Roundup – 2016 is here!

January 8, 2016 By Shannon Abram

By Shannon Abram, Director of Marketing at The Community Roundtable We are a week deep into 2016 and my to-do list is already never-ending. Luckily we're pretty fired up here at TheCR! Are you a New Year's Resolutions-type of person? I'm not - but I'm very into the idea of setting … [Read more...]

Digging in to 2016 at TheCR

January 4, 2016 By Rachel Happe

By Rachel Happe, The Community Roundtable. Wow. 2016. A fresh Moleskine for me and a blank canvas for all of us. While I am not big on resolutions I do use the new year as an opportunity to take stock of the previous year and declare my intentions for the new year. In particular this year, I … [Read more...]

50 Essential Skills in Community Management

December 21, 2015 By Shannon Abram

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...]

Friday Roundup – Community Planning for 2016

December 18, 2015 By Shannon Abram

By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable With less than two weeks left in 2015 we're focused on tallying up the successes of the year, while simultaneously looking ahead to community planning for 2016. Have you started thinking about content, programming and strategy for … [Read more...]

Friday Roundup – Community Benchmarking & More

December 11, 2015 By Shannon Abram

By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable This week we shared the recorded webinars of our very first "The Benefits of Community Benchmarking" session - featuring Ricoh, and the latest "A Look Inside TheCR Network" which focused on best practices for new member welcome … [Read more...]

Friday Roundup – Getting Ready for 2016

December 4, 2015 By Shannon Abram

By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager, The Community Roundtable I can't believe we are firmly into the month of December. 2015 flew by - and now many of you, like us, are getting ready for 2016. We talk a lot about how 90% of success is preparation. And our research shows time and time again the … [Read more...]