Policies, guidelines, and governance provide the framework and boundaries for your community, but moderation is where those policies are turned into day-to-day management. Direct moderation is the day-to-day interaction and management that signals to members what gets attention—both good and … [Read more...]
Community Best Practices: Architecting the Community that Meets Your Needs
By now, countless organizations have learned the painful lesson: “If you build it, they will come,” only works in the movies. But there’s a related lesson that is a core tenet of community management. How you build it—the shape of the community you create—drives whether the community meets your … [Read more...]
Community Best Practices: Creating an Action Plan
From values, to members, to tactics. Formulating an action plan for your community is where the rubber begins to meet the road. Your action plan highlights how you are going to make this community effective on a day-to-day basis. It needs to take into account the organizational environment in … [Read more...]
Best Practices for Selecting a Community Platform
Q: What's the difference between buying a new home and selecting a community platform? A: One is a major expense, fills you with angst and forces you to move all your stuff. The other changes your address. Joking aside, we tend to approach the selection of a new platform like we would a new … [Read more...]
All Things in Moderation – Best Practices for Successful Community Moderation
By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. Please forgive the pun, I couldn't help it! In all seriousness, policies, guidelines and governance provide the framework and boundaries for your community, but moderation is where those policies are turned into day-to-day … [Read more...]
How Can I Use Gamification for Community Engagement?
By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. Gamification is a hot topic in TheCR Network, and among community managers at large. In fact, – nearly half of our surveyed communities in the State of Community Management 2014 employed some form of gamification (and more than … [Read more...]
Friday Roundup: Using Superheroes to Increase Community Engagement
By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. If you had a chance to check out our recently released Community Manager Handbook you already know we are very into the idea of community superheroes right now. Batman and Superman have nothing on some of the amazing community … [Read more...]
Friday Roundup: 20 Minutes to Shape the Future of Community
By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable The fifth Friday of 2015 is in the books, and this one comes at the end of a jam-packed week at The Community Roundtable, where we celebrated #CMAD, postponed #CMAD, launched our landmark annual survey and released the first piece of a new and fun … [Read more...]
