By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable.
Members of TheCR Team impersonate sea life.
Sometimes it’s so easy to get wrapped up in the blog posts, comment moderation, content generation and metric tracking in our online communities that we forget the value of sitting down with community members and sharing a meal or catching up over a drink. The State of Community Management 2014 data showed that both online and offline events provide a value boost to engagement and this week we took our own advice to heart! Last night we hosted a Happy Hour at a local favorite – The Barking Crab. We got the chance to connect with members and and enjoy a beautiful summer night on the water.
Next week we’re continuing our offline adventures as part of the team heads to LiNC in San Francisco, and we host another Happy Hour – this time on the West Coast. We’d love to see you if you’re in San Francisco next week!
Things We Are Reading This Week
Want good online comments? Create communities and moderate them. – I’ve been clear about why I value blog comments before. If you’ve spent any time online, however, you know how bad many comment sections are. Why is that the case? Read Bora Zivkovic on commenting threads, in easily one of the best posts on the topic that I’ve ever read. It’s a long post, but it’s well worth your time.
How Companies Are Getting Collaboration Wrong – Collaboration has become a corporate buzzword, but it might not be working as well as some bosses think.
This is Mary Meeker’s eye-popping 2015 Internet Trends report – Mary Meeker, a longtime Internet analyst and current partner at legendary VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, dropped her annual information bomb on the state of the Internet.
The Art of Facilitating Virtual Meetings with Sticky Notes – Last week, Andrea Kihlstedt and I did a reprise of our Guidestar webinar, “Healthy and Productive Meetings” as a learning session for Guidestar staff. Guidestar has multiple office locations, so this session was done as a virtual meeting using a platform and apps…
The Networked Customer – All over the world, Companies have woken up with a social media hangover. After many years and dollars of investment in…
5 Things Kickboxing Class Has Taught Me About Community Management – I never told my fourth grade teacher that I wanted to manage an online network of professionals…
New Workplaces Mean New Demands on Leaders – We have been witnessing a defection from web 2.0 era “social collaboration” tools because they don’t actually help people get their jobs done. Those tools may reflect an idealized
New Social Media and Community Jobs
- Community Manager, Social Media, Consumer – T-Mobile – Bellevue, WA
- Community Manager – Lily – San Francisco, CA
- Community Manager, LGBT Campaign – Rescue Social Change Group – Los Angeles, CA
- Community Manager – Institute for Healthcare Improvement – Cambridge, MA
- Community Manager – Spredfast Inc – New York, NY
- Community Manager – Close5 – San Francisco, CA
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