By Shannon Abram, The Community RoundtableJob 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 RoundtableAs 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 RoundtableIt'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 RoundtableIt'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...]
Friday Roundup – Online communities are everywhere!
By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager, The Community RoundtableOne of my favorite parts of our research platforms is getting to share the key findings and insights. This week Ted McEnroe shared the first of the Community Careers and Compensation fun facts: CCC 2015 Fun fact #1: Online … [Read more...]
Friday Roundup: Community Careers and Compensation
By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. In case you missed it we released our second annual Community Careers and Compensation report yesterday. The report is chock full of interesting new data - everyone can get the summary report now – click here! To get the full … [Read more...]
Four key takeaways from The Community Careers and Compensation 2015 report
What are the most valuable skills for a community manager? What is the career path? And how much can one make? Those are among the key questions being answered in the Community Careers and Compensation 2015 report, which we released today at The Community Roundtable.It’s the second year we have … [Read more...]
Friday Roundup: Community Skills and Training
By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community RoundtableThis week we launched our new community training program - TheCR Academy, as well as shared a sneak peek at what's coming at part of the final Community Careers and Compensation report - a newly updated community skills … [Read more...]
