The Community Roundtable

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

  • About Us
    • Our Values
    • Our Team
    • Our Clients
      • Client Success Stories
    • Community Leadership Awards
      • Community Leadership Awards 2023
      • Community Leadership Awards 2022
      • Community Leadership Awards 2021
    • Careers
  • Services
    • Benchmarking and Audits
      • Community Performance Benchmark
      • Community Readiness Audits
      • Community ROI Calculator
      • The Community Score
    • Models and Frameworks
      • Community Maturity Model™
      • Community Engagement Framework™
      • Community Skills Framework™
      • Community Technology Framework™
      • The Social Executive
  • Research
    • The State of Community Management
      • SOCM 2023
      • SOCM 2022
      • SOCM 2021
      • SOCM 2020
    • Community Careers and Compensation
    • The Community Manager Handbook
      • 2022 Edition
      • 2015 Edition
    • The Social Executive
    • Special Reports
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Data-Driven Community Management Workshop
    • Connect
      • Connect 2023
      • Connect 2022
    • Community Technology Summit
    • Training
    • Resource Bundles
  • I’m looking for…
    • Community Engagement Resources
    • Executive Support Resources
    • Community Reporting Resources
    • Platform and Technology Resources
    • Community Strategy Resources
    • Community Programming Resources
    • Community Career Resources
    • Something Else
      • Vendor Resource Center
      • Community FAQs
      • Community Management Podcasts
        • Community Conversations
        • Lessons From The NEW Community Manager Handbook
      • Community Management Jobs
        • Job Board
        • CMGR Profiles
      • Community 101
        • Community Management Glossary
        • Community Management FAQs
      • Case Studies
      • Community Webinars
  • Community
    • TheCR Network
      • Member Login
      • Join TheCR Network
      • Roundtable Call Library
    • TheCR Library
      • Subscriber Login
      • Subscribe to TheCR Library
  • Blog

Digital Culture Run Amok: The Case for Community Management

September 19, 2016 By Amy Turner

By Rachel Happe, Co-Founder and Principal of The Community Roundtable The complexity of the world is at our fingertips. It's in our faces and on our screens. We are deluged daily with information we don't have time to process. Anxiety drugs and self-medication are rampant. The political climate … [Read more...]

View from the Top: Executive Perspectives on Community

July 25, 2016 By Rachel Happe

Executive Perspectives on Community

Our research shows that communities are becoming more strategic. C-level executives are often the ones approving budgets and receiving progress reports. This is fantastic progress of which all of us who work in the community space can be very proud. As communities gain strategic attention, the … [Read more...]

Executive Engagement in Three Venn Diagrams

March 15, 2016 By Shannon Abram

By Rachel Happe, Principal at TheCR I admit it, I’m a bit wonky. I really love Venn Diagrams, in part because I think most of the interesting things in life happen at intersections.  When I was asked to speak to a group of women about my online presence last week, I found myself using three … [Read more...]

10 Trends for the Future of Communities

January 13, 2016 By Rachel Happe

Community trends and observations

By Rachel Happe, Co-Founder & Principal of The Community Roundtable Communities sit at the intersection of a number of trends; social media, digital transformation, a generational shift to prioritize purposeful work, change management, leadership and social learning. They are both complex … [Read more...]

Perfection is the Enemy of Engagement 

September 22, 2015 By Ted McEnroe

By Rachel Happe, Co-Founder of The Community Roundtable. How do you react when you receive a perfectly crafted report? Hear an adamant and decisive opinion from an expert? Read Ikea instructions? Watch a TV show? Do you jump in and edit it or immediately mash it up into something different? … [Read more...]

The Parable of Reddit or How Traditional Business Models Fail Communities

July 12, 2015 By Rachel Happe

By Rachel Happe, Co-Founder The Community Roundtable If you work in the community or digital space, it's been impossible not to follow the turmoil at Reddit during the last week. It is cause for a lot of anxiety in the community space because until this turmoil hit, Reddit was viewed as community … [Read more...]

Engagement and Community Architecture

July 9, 2015 By Rachel Happe

By Rachel Happe, Co-Founder of The Community Roundtable Most of us who drive cars stick to driving on roads. Why? They helps us get where we are going faster - even though the route is rarely a straight line between where we start and our destination. We could try and take a more direct route but … [Read more...]

Facebook Pages and How Social Networks Lost Their Way

April 22, 2015 By Rachel Happe

By Rachel Happe, Principal & Co-Founder, The Community Roundtable I have long thought that Facebook has been on a slippery path, because while it revolutionized the communications and engagement model from a linear transaction to a networked flow, Facebook's founders built a traditional, … [Read more...]

Is Your Community Approach a Hollow Bunny?

April 6, 2015 By Ted McEnroe

Community strategy and tactics

By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable Yesterday was Easter and for many kids, that means lots of candy. But when I was a kid, I remember the disappointment of certain candy too. The biggest one? That big, delicious looking chocolate bunny in the basket wasn’t all that it was cracked up to be. … [Read more...]

Fighting the sophomore slump in your community planning

January 13, 2015 By Ted McEnroe

Online Community strategy planning

By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable Welcome to the second full week of 2015. Remember the vim and vigor with which you sat down at your desk last week? The whole year was ahead of you. A clean slate. You laid out a dozen priorities for the year and… haven’t started any of them. Last week … [Read more...]

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • …
  • 9
  • Next Page »
Community best practices

Resources for the people who build online communities.

ABOUT US
Our Values
Our Team
Our Clients
Careers

RESOURCES
Vendor Resource Center
Podcasts 
Job Board
Community 101
Case Studies
Webinars
Upcoming Events

PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
Benchmarking and Audits
Models and Frameworks
Research
Training and Events

RESOURCES BY AUDIENCE
Community Managers
Community Program Owners
Community Executives

QUICK LINKS
Blog
Newsletter
About TheCR Network
About TheCR Library
About TheCR Academy

LOGIN
TheCR Network
TheCR Library
TheCR Academy

Contact
Support
Partnership
Inquiries
Subscribe to
Our Newsletter