By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable.
Have you ever wanted to crawl inside your computer and meet up with all the amazing community folks you know to chat about your challenges, vent your community frustrations and walk away energized and inspired by their stories?
Well now you can – sort of.
This week we announced our new workshop series – TheCR Connect, coming soon to a city near you. We’re kicking things off in Boston this Fall. To learn more visit TheCR Connect and join us this October!
Things We Are Reading This Week
The Parable of Reddit or How Traditional Business Models Fail Communities – 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 success story – growing geometrically over the years. If Reddit can’t make community work, than who can?
State of Community Management Monday Fact #4: Executive Engagement – Getting executives engaged in community has been a challenge for community managers since the beginning of community management. For every social CEO out there, there are dozens of C-suite members who “don’t have time,” “don’t feel the need” or “don’t see the point.”
Engagement and Community Architecture – 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 at a minimum it would involve driving over uneven ground – at worst we would have to remove barriers like trees, houses, rocks, animals, etc. That would be slightly, um, crazy – even if there were someone that was encouraging us to do so and helping.
Announcing TheCR Connect – A Workshop for Community Managers – TheCR Connect is technically a workshop for community professionals, but our goal is to have it be much more that that. By bringing together an intimate group of community practitioners we want to facilitate conversations, share knowledge, solve problems, inspire action and provide the tools participants need to go back into their communities and create real, meaningful change.
New Social Media and Community Jobs
- Social Business Executive – Marketing Communities & Advocacy – USAA – San Antonio, TX
- Technical Marketer – Godaddy – Sunnyvale, CA
- Community Manager, Condé Nast Traveler – Condé Nast – Entertainment and Media Industry
– New York City, NY
- Marketing Community Manager – Cultura Technologies Inc – Minneapolis, MN
- Community Manager – HourlyNerd – Boston, MA
- Community Manager – Freaks 4U Gaming GmbH – Los Angeles, CA
- Community Manager – Revivn – Brooklyn, NY
- Social User and Customer Experience Manager – Alternatives – Dublin, Ireland
- Editor/Community Manager – Truth In Aging – New York, NY
- Community Manager (Intern/Co-op) – Fairchild Semiconductor Incorporated – San Jose, CA
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Looking for a new community event to connect with peers, get hands on community training and workshop your biggest challenges? Join us for TheCR Connect – a workshop for community professionals.
