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Resources for Association Professionals

Effectively managing the membership experience is critical in today's quickly changing environment. From effective communications to building engaging content and programs, equitably connecting with your entire audience is more important than ever.

This page contains resources specifically designed to help you increase member engagement, strengthen ties in a remote world, and better serve your online community through research-backed training, tactics, and case studies.

We help global brands achieve their community goals.

We help global organizations achieve their community goals.

Employee Community Intranet Best Practices
Training and Professional Development for Associations and NFPs
Recommended Podcasts for Associations and NFPs
Recommended reading for HR professionals

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Community Management 101 for Associations outlines the scope of the community manager's role in association communities and provides prescriptive approaches for successful community management.

Brush up on community management fundamentals and earn 6 credits toward your CAE application or renewal professional development requirements. Learn more

Research and Best Practices

Community Manager Job Descriptions

Our Community Job Description Index highlights 30 roles in community management today.

This resource is a small example of the available roles, titles, and requirements available in the expanding field of community.

View roles and responsibilities, and learn how to craft the right job descriptions to attract top community management talent.

Learn more or download the index.

Community Skills Framework™

Community manager skills - A core component of proven community models and frameworks.

The Community Skills Framework™ includes five skill families with ten skills in each family, prioritized based on what we learned from our extensive community management research.

Use the Framework to identify critical skills needed for your online community team.

View the Community Skills Framework™

Community Management Job Board

Community Management Jobs

Our community management job board highlights jobs at global companies focused on the many facets of online community management.

You can browse the job board for inspiration, or post your own open community roles. 

Recommended Reading

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Authentic Engagement in Online Communities

Powering Behavior Change Through Community

Powering Behavior Change Through Community

Unclogging Bottlenecks with Janet Stiles

Unclogging Bottlenecks with Janet Stiles

Managing a Migration with Debbie Kwan

Lessons from the NEW Community Manager Handbook - Episode One - Lisa Tallman on Building Community Teams

Building Community Teams with Lisa Tallman

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Community Conversations – Episode #80: Marjorie Anderson

Online community management podcast

Community Conversations – Episode #78: Stephanie Weiner

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Using Gamification to Increase Engagement In Online Communities

Online Community Case Study

Using a Playbook to Support Community Manager Success

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Matthew Radford on Executive Engagement

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