Technical Community Management Skills: Designing and building effective communities Technical skills are unique in that they are most easily outsourced and often score lower than their true importance because not everyone on a team needs each specific skill. But as noted in our Community Careers … [Read more...]
What is a community manager?
Community Manager is by far the most often cited and discussed role in the community space for a couple of reasons. First, in the past online communities were used primarily for tactical reasons, which often did not warrant more senior roles. Secondly, communities were often run by ‘lone wolf’ … [Read more...]
Community management salaries are on the rise
Happy Community Manager Appreciation Day, everyone! We enjoy CMAD as a chance to recognize the hard work thousands of community professionals do every day. But thank yous don't pay the bills. That's why this year for CMAD, we wanted to see how salaries for community professionals were … [Read more...]
Throwback Thursday – Community Management Research
We are gearing up to launch our 8th annual State of Community Management Survey, so I thought it would be a great time to share an overview of all the community management research we publish. This week's #throwbackthursday highlights our four major research platforms for community … [Read more...]
Throwback Thursday – Getting a Community Management Job
By Shannon Abram, The Community Roundtable Job hunting can always be stressful. Add to that the stress of finding a job in an emerging field like community management and your stress can double. No fear! We've compiled best practices for finding and getting a community job. We're also … [Read more...]
Three Reasons You Should Register for Community Program Essentials
By Shannon Abram, The Community Roundtable As community management emerges as a true discipline and not just a job, community pros can start to think about their career path - and how to get from where they are to where they want to be. Our research has shown that investing in your community … [Read more...]
CMGRs are Entry-Level? Not Anymore.
By Shannon Abram, The Community Roundtable. With the SOCM 2016 survey fully launched we have just one CCC fun fact left for you - and it's probably something you've known for a while. CCC Fun Fact #8: Community management isn't "entry-level" - the average community manager has more than 12 years … [Read more...]
CMAD 2016 – Unleash Your Inner Community Management Superhero
By Shannon Abram, Director of Marketing at The Community Roundtable It's no secret that we love community managers. We've sort of built our entire business around it! The truth is we not-so-secretly believe that every community professional has the ability to be a community management superhero. … [Read more...]
50 Essential Skills in Community Management
We're going to take a break from our weekly series of facts from the Community Careers and Compensation report to review the 50 essential community manager skills from the Community Skills Framework. We updated the Community Skills Framework as a means to explore the value of 50 essential skills of … [Read more...]
CCC Fun Fact #5: The demise of the lone wolf community manager?
By Ted McEnroe, Head of Research, The Community Roundtable It's one of the unfortunate clichés of the history of community management - the image of an overworked, isolated, solo practitioner, a lone wolf community manager, working to keep the community moving forward while the rest of the … [Read more...]
