The Community Roundtable

Empowering global community leaders with research-backed resources, training, and tools.

Building Strategic Maturity and Securing Budgets

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Community programs are evolving rapidly (as always!), with organizations increasingly recognizing the importance of having an approved, operational, and measurable strategy (spoiler alert - an approved strategy is one of the criteria for our best-in-class community segment). This shift is evident in … [Read more...]

What’s in a name? Best-in-Class Communities

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Over the years, we've highlight "Best-in-Class" communities in our State of Community Management Research. The Best-in-Class defines a segment of respondents to the State of Community Management 2024 survey that represent a mature, effective online community program. Our reporting directly … [Read more...]

Focus on relationships to build strong communities.

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Kyle Pitocchelli is a business strategist and coach, a design thinker, and a functional movement coach. As a member of our Research Advisory Board, he offered guidance and expertise on our community management competency data. Here he shares three thought on the state of community management as … [Read more...]

Three Trends in Community Management in 2023

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Community is an always-evolving field. Explore three trends on community management in 2023 with this detailed look at how community professionals self-report on their program. Our research shows that community teams are not immune to the global economic slowdown and staffing cuts seen in 2023, … [Read more...]

Communities are behavior change-makers.

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Communities are behavior change-makers. When you give people a faster, easier, or more effective way to do something, they typically adopt this new approach. Our 2023 State of Community Management research showed that external-facing communities continue to grow across nearly all behaviors we index. … [Read more...]

Growing Organizational Interest in Community Metrics

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The Metrics & Measurement competency of The Community Maturity Model™ helps organizations understand the “why” of social approaches and the results they see when they do. Community teams are often responsible for collecting, analyzing, and reporting back to the organization, which evolves as the … [Read more...]

Don’t Let Your Community Get Stale

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The Tools competency of the Community Maturity Model™ considers the technical architecture of an organization, and how social technologies and community tools fit into it. Tools can be anything that provides efficiencies or leverage and require investment (both for the tool itself and for the … [Read more...]