The Community Roundtable

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

The Hidden Work of Community Teams

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Community management work is evolving along with roles - and evolving rapidly. As all communications become networked, community engagement and management is a discipline that everyone needs to cultivate to be successful. I've long said that community management is the future of all management - … [Read more...]

The Cross-Functional Impact of Communities

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Executives are struggling with how to rapidly transform their organizations.  There is so much that needs to be addressed and so quickly, that it's challenging to know where to start.Communities point to a possible approach. Community impact is broad and deep  Communities are reaching the breadth … [Read more...]

Communities Empower Individuals

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Communities enable human potential I believe in the power of communities to enable human potential. To thrive, we all need support and challenge. We often receive those messages best from our peers. What does it mean to thrive? To me, that means we continuously learn and apply what we are … [Read more...]

Communities are Change Agents

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Resiliency and the ability to change quickly are becoming key competencies for all organizations as new technologies create rapidly changing market conditions. Organizations need to acquire and apply new knowledge faster, and the more traditional learning and professional support mechanisms cannot … [Read more...]

Where Does Community Reside in Organizations?

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One way to appreciate the impact of communities in organizations is to look at how the community and its leadership are connected into the overall structures of the sponsoring organization. So, where does community reside in organizations? We took a look in our  SOCM 2017 research. There’s no … [Read more...]