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Sam Pirok on Expectation Management

January 28, 2021 By Jim Storer

Sam Pirok on Expectation Management

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...]

Professional Communities Unleash Potential

January 11, 2021 By Jim Storer

Professional Communities Unleash Potential

Online communities hold incredible potential; they increase collaboration, they connect far-reaching individuals, and they power meaningful behavior change. Specifically, professional communities provide new opportunities to deepen relevance with members, provide significant ROI back to … [Read more...]

Lance Yoder and John L. Moore on Workforce Collaboration

December 17, 2020 By Jim Storer

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...]

What will community management look like in 2021? 8 community leaders share their ideas.

December 14, 2020 By Jim Storer

2020 was an unpredictable year, so while we're loathe to make "predictions" for 2021, we did want to hear what some community thought leaders were thinking about in terms of where the industry is going. Below eight community leaders share their perspective on what 2021 holds for the online … [Read more...]

The 2020 Community Manager Gift Guide

December 14, 2020 By Jim Storer

Gifts they'll actually want. (We know because they said so!) Self-care was the theme for CMAD 2020 and we had no idea how much we'd actually need it (2020, amirite?). During Connect, we dove head-first into self-care again with the Wellness track, which included: journaling prompts from the … [Read more...]

Wanted: Our Next Community Management Fellow

November 24, 2020 By Kelly Schott

Join TheCR Team

Do you know someone who is interested in community management but doesn't know how to break into the industry? Are YOU someone who wants to pursue a career in community, but don't know where to start? Maybe you are our next Community Management Fellow! Each year we bring on one (sometimes … [Read more...]

Introducing TheCR Network Scholarship Program

November 23, 2020 By Kelly Schott

Community Management Scholarship

Our members tell us that TheCR Network is the best deal in the community industry. For less than $2,000 a year, members have access to our entire content and research library, live and on-demand community training courses, an engaged group of peers and community enthusiasts from around the world, … [Read more...]

Customer Communities Elevate the Customer Experience

November 10, 2020 By Jim Storer

Customer Communities Elevate the Customer Experience

This eBook, Customer Communities Elevate the Customer Experience, is derived from the 2020 State of Community Management research, produced by The Community Roundtable. It is a collaboration between The Community Roundtable and Vanilla Forums and compares the results of two data segments: 1.  … [Read more...]

The Community Roundtable Recognizes Excellence in Community Leadership with TheCR Awards 2020

October 29, 2020 By Jim Storer

Ultimate Kronos Group, World Bank Group, and Avnet among global organizations recognized as leaders of innovation in community management. The winners of the fifth annual TheCR Awards were announced Thursday, October 29, 2020 and included community leaders from organizations like BAE Systems, … [Read more...]

Priya Parker and The Art of Gathering

September 21, 2020 By Jim Storer

Exciting announcement this morning! Priya Parker, master facilitator, strategic advisor, acclaimed author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters and the host of the New York Times podcast, Together Apart will join us at Connect 2020 for a fireside chat! As we thought about how … [Read more...]

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