By Shannon DiGregorio, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable The State of Community Management (SOCM) has been one of our core research platforms and we are excited to announce the availability of The State of Community Management Toolkit, which includes both newly released research … [Read more...]
Become a Part of the Network You Need… Before You Need It
By Jim Storer, Co-Founder and Principal at The Community Roundtable 2013 has been an amazing, busy and productive year here at The Community Roundtable. Membership grew by 34% and we now reach members in thirty-one US states and seven countries around the world. I am personally thrilled with the … [Read more...]
Holiday Gift Guide: For the Community Manager in Your Life
By Shannon DiGregorio, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable It's that time of year! My inbox is full of (dangerous) sale emails and the mall is now a terrifying cross between Mad Max and my nightmares. In the spirit of getting into the spirit we've pulled together a list of items … [Read more...]
Meet the TheCR Summit: Hacking Culture
Here at The Community Roundtable we love online connections: watching members swap war stories in TheCR Network, listening in as problems get discussed and resolved on a roundtable call or even the growing comments on a particularly provocative blog post create real and meaningful relationships. … [Read more...]
The Social Executive Toolkit: Coaching Tools to Help Executives Use Social Media
Over the past year we have compiled The Social Executive research which has produced deep insights into why and how executives adopt social tools and management approaches.We pursued this research because executive support is an increasing barrier to move organizations forward to the next stage of … [Read more...]
Community 101
One of the primary jobs of a community manager is to help coach, train, educate, convince, and prod others in the organization to understand what this online communications environment is all about and why it should matter to them. A large part of that training covers the different tools and online … [Read more...]
Check Out Our New Look
We are very excited to introduce our new and improved website! While putting on a little make up and freshening up content is always a good idea, we wanted to rethink everything. Our goal with the new web site is to help visitors: Understand where they are on their journey to adopt social … [Read more...]
Evaluating Google+ For Community
Toward the end of 2012 Google came out with a community feature on their Google+ tool. And it sparked a lot of interest. We're not sure about you but for a while we got many invitations to join new Google+ communities. With the holiday break that enthusiasm seemed to wane a bit but we're still … [Read more...]
Technology Changes, People Don’t … as Quickly
After 13 years in corporate America (and one very bad flight for this 1.5 million mile flyer), I realized that I needed to make some significant changes in my life and focus on what I am passionate about in my work: social business and online communities. Most recently, I was the chief strategist … [Read more...]
Developing The Social Executive
One of the hardest things that community leaders do is to help executives within their organization understand the value of communities and how to effectively participate themselves. It's not that executives can't learn but they are faced with unique challenges: Booked Solid: Executives have very … [Read more...]
