By Rachel Happe, Co-Founder, The Community Roundtable This month, at JiveWorld, I presented Becoming a Community Ninja: 5 Secrets of Community Black Ops. One of those secrets was using communities to create culture change. Most organizations do not understand how powerful communities can be in … [Read more...]
Tips for Community Managers Attending SXSWi 2014
By Shannon DiGregorio Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. Are you heading to Austin for SXSWi this week? Our co-founder, Jim Storer, will be there - if you spot him stop and say hello! Whether you're a first time attendee or an old veteran we've put together some tips and … [Read more...]
Building Reputation: Becoming a Social Strategist
By Shannon DiGregorio, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. For many social media and community practitioners being viewed as an expert in something that everyone thinks they are great at (social media) can be a real challenge. Just because someone loves Instagram or has 500 friends … [Read more...]
Building Value: Articulating the Power of Community Management
Over and over we hear from members and peers that articulating the value of a thoughtful and well-executed community program is one of the hardest parts of their job. Sure - wrangling tough community members isn't a walk in the park, and no one likes a troll, but condensing the power of community … [Read more...]
Working in the Social World: Complex Adaptive Systems
Last week I had the honor and fun of keynoting at Defrag. It was my first Defrag conference and I was not entirely sure what to expect aside from knowing it was a forum for deeper thinking about enterprise technologies. I was pleasantly surprised that both presenters and attendees were talking about … [Read more...]
Announcing the 2012 State of Community Management Report
We are very pleased to announce our third annual State of Community Management report. We started our annual report as a means to achieve our mission of advancing the business of community - making what we know collectively about community building more visible and accessible to everyone. The … [Read more...]
Come Learn, Connect & Celebrate with TheCR
The Community Roundtable has a lot going on. So much for easing into the New Year. Instead we are starting it off with a bang and more. We held our first TheCRLive in Washington, DC on Tuesday night and from all accounts a great time and interesting, thought provoking conversation was had by all. … [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...]
2011 State of Community Management Webinars
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...]
#SXSWLurkers – My Experience on a Panel at SXSW
I had the opportunity to present at South-by-Southwest Interactive this year for the first time. I shared the stage with three friends and former colleagues for "Lurkers: Your Most Valuable Community Members." We offered up this … [Read more...]
