We developed the Community Maturity Model (CMM) to help community leaders and their organizations understand,plan for, and assess the performance of their community and social business initiatives. The CMM organizes the issues, associated competencies, and information relevant to community … [Read more...]
Now Open: 2015 State of Community Management Survey
Yes, it's that time of year again - time to take stock of where our community programs are and what's next. For The Community Roundtable, this is our biggest and most important initiative every year because our shared value with you is to demonstrate the value of community management. We … [Read more...]
Announcing The State of Community Management 2014
By Rachel Happe, Co-Founder of The Community Roundtable. The fifth annual State of Community Management report is here! A lot has changed in the five years we have been publishing this research and the State of Community Management 2014 continues to push the boundary of what we collectively … [Read more...]
Podcast: Community Retrospective – Part One
By Shannon DiGregorio Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. To celebrate our 5th anniversary I spent an afternoon with our founders, Jim Storer and Rachel Happe at their first office - a corner table at the pub Hugh O'Neills in Malden, MA. Over a few pints of Guinness we … [Read more...]
Measuring the Value of Communities
By Maggie Tunning, Learning and Culture Manager at The Community Roundtable. It’s the last week to take the 2014 State of Community Management survey! Have you shared your community insights? If you work with an online community we would love to hear from you - you can take the survey here … [Read more...]
Building your Community Approach
By Shannon DiGregorio, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. Here on The Community Roundtable blog we've decided to try something new for 2014. Each month we'll pick an aspect of community management and tackle it from many angles, providing commentary, resources and expert opinions. … [Read more...]
Announcing the State of Community Management Toolkit
By Shannon DiGregorio, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable The State of Community Management (SOCM) has been one of our core research platforms and we are excited to announce the availability of The State of Community Management Toolkit, which includes both newly released research … [Read more...]
Call for Research Participants: 2013 State of Community Management
Many of TheCR Network members and the organizations we work with struggle with some of the following questions: What is the benefit of a community strategy? When should I expect to see those benefits at a meaningful scale? What difference does community management make? What are the … [Read more...]
Call for Research Participants: 2013 State of Community Management
Many of TheCR Network members and the organizations we work with struggle with some of the following questions: What is the benefit of a community strategy? When should I expect to see those benefits at a meaningful scale? What difference does community management make? What are the standard … [Read more...]
Why Community Management Is Not a Fad Diet
Community management and social business is a discipline, not a discrete set of tasks and boxes to be completed and checked off before you move on to something else. We've written about this before and I was reminded of it yesterday from a tweet from IBM's Vice President of Social Business … [Read more...]
