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Why Community Teams Need to Get Smart About Using ROI

August 13, 2018 By Sonali Varma

How to calculate community ROI

 Only 6% of community programs who calculate ROI, use it to secure resources. The SOCM 2018 data revealed that of the respondents who were calculating ROI and presenting it to various stakeholders, more than 50% were using it to defend their program or to increase confidence in it, instead of the … [Read more...]

Executives are Overwhelmingly Supportive of Community Approaches

July 26, 2018 By Kelly Schott

how to run a community program

We’ve talked about how community is creating value, but community professionals are burnt out due to their “hidden” work. We’ve also discussed how community is creating high ROI and empowering individuals, but ROI is primarily being used defensively rather than to attain more … [Read more...]

Communities contribute to multiple strategic objectives

July 7, 2018 By Sonali Varma

how to improve community ROI

Executives are always seeking means to achieve a wide spectrum of organizational objectives through a single initiative or investment.  Strategic objectives are designed to propel an organization towards success. That success could be defined in direct monetary gains like increased … [Read more...]

The Hidden Work of Community Teams

June 25, 2018 By Rachel Happe

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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...]

Gaps in Strategy Contribute to Community Professionals’ Burnout

June 18, 2018 By Kelly Schott

Community manager challenges

If you work in community management, chances are that you’ve felt burnt out recently – according to the State of Community Management 2018 Report, 45% of community professionals have felt that way in the past year alone. Do you ever think about why that is? To put that 45% in perspective, almost … [Read more...]

The Cross-Functional Impact of Communities

June 11, 2018 By Sonali Varma

how to prove community ROI

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

June 4, 2018 By Rachel Happe

How to improve community performance

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

May 29, 2018 By Jim Storer

Community value

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...]

The State of Community Management 2018 Report: Communities Accelerate Organizational Transformation

May 22, 2018 By Rachel Happe

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The State of Community Management 2018 is here and we could not be happier to share it with you. This ninth State of Community Management report includes data from 383 companies that represent a variety of industries as well as both internal and external communities. This year's research … [Read more...]

Save the Date: The State of Community Management 2018 is Coming in May

April 23, 2018 By Kelly Schott

Community agency research

Update: The SOCM 2018 is now availble for download Next month we will publish our ninth edition of the State of Community Management (SOCM).  When we released the first SOCM in 2010 community management was largely an undocumented niche role to a strategic professio n and a … [Read more...]

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