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TheCR Network Infographic 2015

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By Shannon Abram, The Community Roundtable

With just a few days left in 2015 we wanted to share a look at the great year we had inside TheCR Network. I hope you’re enjoying the end of the year and we are excited to share even more community management resources in 2016!! Now onto TheCR Network infographic:

TheCR Network - Year End Infographic

 

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Time to #thankitforward – Looking Back and Giving Thanks

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By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable.

snoopygratefulWe’re on our third year championing the idea of #thankitforward here on TheCR blog and in TheCR Network. This is our official kick off to our third year of looking back and giving thanks to those that helped us work, grow and thrive in the past year!

In the spirit of reflection and gratitude we encourage you to look back at 2015 and identify three (or more!) people who made a difference in your work and life this past year and send them a thank you via email, snail mail, or Twitter, snapchat, vine, flashmob or whatever medium works best for you. 

Think about:

  • Who inspired you? Brought on a “aha moment”?
  • Who was unwavering in their support of your work?
  • Which exec made a difference with their sponsorship or participation?
  • Which community member or advocate showed up in a big way?
  • Who covered you so you could unplug for a vacation — whether a day or a week?
  • Who talked you through a tough situation?
  • Whose blog posts or Twitter handle kept you well informed? Or laughing!

You get the idea! We’d love if you tag any social thanks #thankitforward so we can see the gratitude spread. Of course – some thanks yous are private and we 100% encourage those as well. Our goal is to inspire reflection on your journey this past year, and help identify those that helped make it possible.

So tell us. Who will you be thanking it forward to this year? We’ll be sharing our #thankitforward posts over the next three weeks and we can’t wait to see yours!

 

Join TheCR Team: Seeking a Sales/Marketing Fellow

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Are you interested in learning a community-oriented approach to marketing and understanding social selling? TheCR is thrilled to announce an opening for a Sales/Marketing Fellow in 2015.

What’s a Fellow?

The Community Roundtable has hired a number of fellows over the years because it is a unique opportunity for both an individual, TheCR and TheCR’s ecosystem to benefit.  Our fellowships are intended to last 6-12 months and give individuals a strong background and network with which to find a permanent research or analyst position – you can read more about this program here.

What you will learn:

  • How to creating pull marketing and sales programming – collaborating with prospects and clients to create something together
  • What it means to be a generative business (one that generates more value for every segment of a company’s ecosystem than it takes out)
  • How to work with a fast-paced, transparent and collaborative team that has a bias for action and as little overhead as possible
  • How a community management approach to business transforms work into a series of fluid, meaningful collaborations with a network of individuals that build value

You might be our next sales/marketing fellow if you:

  • Love people and have experience with social technologies and online communities
  • Care about your work and the people with whom you work
  • Bring your best effort to every project but can leave your ego at the door
  • Get excited about content creation – in lots of different formats
  • Love communicating with people through writing and social media
  • Are organized, self-driven and have strong project management skills
  • Enjoy the flexibility – and responsibility – of working from home
  • Have a great sense of humor and want to work as part of a small, driven team
  • Are a good copy-editor and like to ensure communications are professional
Responsibilities:
  • Help TheCR team and our ecosystem to demonstrate the value of community and community management
  • Building content that effectively triggers learning or action – must be comfortable with WordPress and PowerPoint, graphic and video skills are a bonus, as is light website coding.
  • CRM maintenance and analysis – experience with Salesforce is a plus, but not a must
  • Relationship development and sales outreach – you’ll be in the trenches with our sales team generating, managing and nurturing conversations
  • Special projects which, depending on your  skill set and interests, could be related to research, content, business development, marketing, or events

You might be the ideal candidate if: 

You are detail-oriented, recognize the value of community management, and want to help us shout it from the rooftops.

Why a fellowship and not a permanent hire?

As a small organization there are large risks for someone in deciding to work with us and there are risks for us in making a permanent hire. By providing training, access to market leaders, and a stipend to a fellow, we can ensure that she or he is very well positioned to find a great gig with a larger organization at the end of the fellowship. To us, this creates a win-win-win for potential candidates, employers, and for us. It also serves our mission by enabling us to develop trained, experienced professionals for the market. But we liked our last two fellows so much we hired them both into permanent roles, which is also a potential outcome of the fellowship.

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Do you have what it takes? Are you excited by what we could do together? Please tell us more about you! While not a requirement for the right candidate, preference will be given to people within commuting distance from Boston.

Join TheCR Team: Research Fellow Wanted

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Do you want to join TheCR team and learn more about community, research and analysis? We are thrilled to announce that we are hiring a Research Fellow for 2015.

Why a Fellow? 

The Community Roundtable has hired a number of fellows over the years because it is a unique opportunity for both an individual, TheCR and TheCR’s ecosystem to benefit.  Our fellowships are intended to last 6-12 months and give individuals a strong background and network with which to find a permanent research or analyst position – you can read more about this program here.

What you will learn:

  • How to execute on complex research initiatives
  • How to build a collaborative, networked-based approach to research
  • When and how to integrate research across organizational functions
  • How to create research that delivers date in actionable and relevant ways

You might be our next research fellow if you:

  • Understanding of, experience with and passion for the potential of social technologies and online communities
  • Care about your work and the people with whom you work
  • Bring your best effort to every project but can leave your ego at the door
  • Are analytical and can synthesize quantitative and qualitative inputs
  • You have experience with data analysis, benchmarking, statistics and/or survey techniques
  • Understand that data is only as good as the story that it tells
  • Love building Excel arguments or algorithms in code
  • Have strong communication and editorial skills
  • Enjoy content creation – our research team is responsible for our annual research, as well as additional content including ebooks, infographics, white papers and more
  • Are self-organized, self-driven and have strong project management skills
  • Enjoy the flexibility – and responsibility – of working from home
  • Have a great sense of humor and want to work as part of a small, driven team
Responsibilities:
  • Demonstrate the value of community and community management with research
  • Survey development and administration
  • Data analysis, segmentation and synthesis – Excel proficiency is a must
  • Content development – must have good writing and presentation development skills
  • Special projects which, depending on your  skill set and interests, could be related to research, content, business development, marketing, or events

You might be the ideal candidate if: 

You are a storyteller and data nerd who is curious about how community management is transforming business.

Apply Now

Do you have what it takes? Are you excited by what we could do together? Please tell us more about you! While not a requirement for the right candidate, preference will be given to people within commuting distance from Boston.