When I saw the topic for yesterday's Twitter #cmgrchat, I thought it was a good one to discuss, particularly now. The holidays just ended where everyone feels stretched in too many directions. It's January so the business expectations for a New Year are fresh in everyone's mind and people are … [Read more...]
Community Management 101 Webinar – Key Take-Aways
Talk of community management is all the rage these days and last week I sat in on the Focus Roundtable Webinar: Community Management 101: The Start-Up Edition. Four experienced community managers — Evan Hamilton (UserVoice), Thomas Knoll (Launch Rock), Alison Hillman (BranchOut), and Sarah-Jane … [Read more...]
Top Ten from The Community Roundtable Blog for 2011
In case you missed them. Here are the posts that were the most read, most passed around and most talked about in 2011 from our blog. Want a Successful Community? Don't be a Social Media Manager Community Management Lessons for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Google+ for Community … [Read more...]
Count Me In: Why This Community Manager Is Excited About the Upcoming Training
I fell into community management and social media organically, as a volunteer for community organizations and not-for-profits that were important to me. I had always planned on re-entering the work force after starting a family and it turns out I had a skill set that developed from my volunteer … [Read more...]
Trends and Predictions? We’re Not Quite Ready Yet
It's that time of year again where there will be a lot said about what may happen next year in social business and community management. We're not quite ready to post our thoughts here yet, that will come after our December 20th TheCR Network weekly call. But here are a few predicted trends that … [Read more...]
Lost in Translation: You work in community? What’s that?
I don't know about you but every time there is a family gathering I try to explain what I do. Some of it is easy. Marketing - most everyone basically understands what that is. Where it all comes apart is when I try to explain what The Community Roundtable does to a multi-generational audience … [Read more...]
It’s Time: Community Management Certificate Program
We have seen quite a change in the market for community managers over the last few years. When we started TheCR, community managers were largely isolated and working by themselves or on very small teams. Back in early 2010, we spoke with TheCR Network members about hiring social media and community … [Read more...]
Community Managers are Human Experience (HX) Professionals
Over the last decade we've all learned how important the user experience (UX) of software is to how well it performs. If features are hard to use and the interface looks stale, it's less compelling to the user. The UX is particularly important in communications and social technologies because there … [Read more...]
Executive is Just Another Word for Community Manager
Executives are charged with executing on a set of goals. They all want to accomplish those goals in a way that maximizes their investments. Executives need to marshal a range of constituencies (their team, peers across the organization, customers, partners, experts, consultants) to make things … [Read more...]
Leaving People Well – A Community Strategy That Pays
In the social space we talk a lot about relationships: Finding them, developing them, keeping them. But what about leaving them? People don't much like talking about the end of things because it often feels like a reflection of our own adequacy or value, which in turn makes us treat the process … [Read more...]
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