The 2011 State of Community Management report has received far reaching interest and support. Part of what makes the State of Community Management report so compelling is the aggregation of practitioner voices. Last week we were thrilled to have Dan Brostek, social business leader at Aetna, and … [Read more...]
2012 SOCM: Moving from Hierarchy to Emergent Community
The 2012 State of Community Management report has a lot of information in it and at 57 pages it is beefy. To those of you who have digested the entire document, thank you and nicely done! But we also know it is a lot to wade through so we will be doing a series of blog posts to better show you the … [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...]
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...]
Assessing Social Business Maturity – Getting to Stage 2/Emergent Community
When we originally developed the Community Maturity Model, we thought of it as a tool that organizations of all sizes could use in creating a baseline understanding of where they were on the path to becoming a 'social' organization. Additionally, it was designed to provide organizations with a … [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...]
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...]
Community FAQs: Community Maturity Levels
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...]
Introducing TheCR Focus: Your Guide to The Business of Community
When Rachel and I started building The Community Roundtable in 2009, we had a decision to make. Who to serve? We agreed it was hard to build a truly customer-focused business if you tried to serve too many constituents. In the end, we agreed to focus on the people we thought really needed help... … [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...]
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...]
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...]
Review: Social Readiness – How Advanced Companies Prepare Internally
Altimeter Group published an excellent report today called Social Readiness: How Advanced Companies Prepare Internally. It is chock full of great information - collected from a range of companies - on how to set up internal governance processes and provides a rich analysis of social media crisis. … [Read more...]
Survey: Assessing Social & Community Maturity
Over the past year, we've been talking with our clients and members about the Community Maturity Model which lays out a high level framework to help organize how to approach either a discrete social initiative or general social business enablement across an enterprise. When we created the framework … [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...]
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...]
