Friday Roundup: How Do You Spend Your Time?

By Amy Turner, The Community Roundtable

Explaining what you do as a Community Manager is never easy – and it turns out, it’s likely to change as your community matures. That’s right – not every community manager does the same thing, and all community manager roles evolve as their community does. (We can see you nodding along at your desk – this is one of those “I knew it!” type facts that confirms a long held belief in the community community.)

Ted McEnroe (our resident research expert) dove deeper into this theme in his latest in a series of posts from the State of Community Management 2016 survey. We asked respondents how they spent their time among the five skill sets of our Community Skills Framework – Engagement, Content, Strategic, Technical and Business.

We found subtle but noteworthy changes when we compared the skills of Stage 1, relatively immature communities, with those that scored in Stage 3 or 4 on our Community Maturity Model. And, as with so many things in community, the evolution of community manager roles is non-linear. It will happen as your community grows and develops – it’s just not a matter of time. You can read Ted’s full post here.

TheCR Connect 2016: Community Takes Center Stage

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