By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable Sometimes, the theme for the week is planned - other times, you see it emerge. Looking back at this week, we have been spending a lot of time thinking about internal communities, intranets and ESNs. Rachel shared some thoughts earlier this week on the … [Read more...]
Friday Roundup: The advocacy opportunity, and getting clarity in community roles
By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable February is (almost) over, but we managed to pack a lot into the shortest month of the year. Our main theme of the month has been the State of Community Management 2015 survey, which officially closes today. We are setting new records for responses, which … [Read more...]
Friday Roundup: A call to the State of Community Management survey alumni (and all CMs)
By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable We're always all about community management here at The Community Roundtable. But recently, we've also been all about The State of Community Management survey. As we close in on the end of the month, we need your help to make the survey responses as … [Read more...]
Friday Roundup: State of Community Management Progress, Superhero Traits
By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable The first Friday the 13th of 2015 comes to Boston with promise of yet another blizzard, which means only two things. Either you have time to fill out the State of Community Management 2015 survey, or you should make time, and brighten our day while we hide … [Read more...]
Friday roundup: The Community Manager Handbook hits the streets
It's been a big week (again) at The Community Roundtable, with a brand new publication hitting the streets - The Community Manager Handbook: 20 Lessons from Community Superheroes. The Handbook was a labor of love for us, because it gave us a chance to work closely with former and current members of … [Read more...]
Friday Roundup: 20 Minutes to Shape the Future of Community
By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable The fifth Friday of 2015 is in the books, and this one comes at the end of a jam-packed week at The Community Roundtable, where we celebrated #CMAD, postponed #CMAD, launched our landmark annual survey and released the first piece of a new and fun … [Read more...]
Friday Roundup: Community Manager Appreciation, Respect, and Job Searching
By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable In case you haven't heard - Monday, January 26 is Community Manager Appreciation Day. We've talked a lot about our CMAD events in Boston, New York, Atlanta, Milwaukee and Washington, DC, and if you still want to get in before the tickets are all gone, you … [Read more...]
Friday Roundup: Fundamental Questions about Community Value
By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable Another week in the books at The Community Roundtable - and it seems like the second week of the New Year had people thinking more about some of the fundamental questions about community value. Rachel sparked one of the bigger reactions of the week with a … [Read more...]
Friday Roundup: Fast Start, Big Thoughts in Community to open 2015
By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable 2015 is off to a rip-roaring start at The Community Roundtable. In TheCR Network, the first Roundtable call of the year is in the books, the Working Out Loud threads are buzzing and interaction is everywhere. For TheCR as a whole, the New Year has meant … [Read more...]
Friday Roundup: All We Want for Christmas are Community Fellows
By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable It's been far from quiet at TheCR Headquarters over the past year, and we expect things will keep growing over the next year. So this week, we announced we are tripling our Community Fellow program, looking for three Fellows for 2015 in community … [Read more...]
