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Community Role Profile: Community Manager

April 16, 2021 By Shannon Abram

community manager role

OVERVIEW OF ROLE​ Community managers often oversee more processes than people and are the generalists of the community field. Although some community managers manage moderators or specialists, many work with other teams as the voice of the community. A community manager can be an entry-level role in … [Read more...]

How do you direct your own career path when one is not defined?

October 11, 2019 By Binta Dixon

One of the interesting career-based findings from the SOCM 2019, was that only 25% of community roles are approved by HR. This is a crucial number because it means that three-quarters of CM's do not have clearly defined roles or paths to promotion to go along with them. When we look at … [Read more...]

Building A Skill-Based Community Manager Job Ad

March 22, 2018 By Shannon Abram

community manager skills

A quick search on LinkedIn finds more than 1,000 jobs with “Community Manager” in the title at any given moment. Subtract the ones about property management, and add in “Online Community”, “Community Specialist” and a dozen other terms and you are left with several hundred job descriptions — not two … [Read more...]

What is a community manager?

March 14, 2018 By Shannon Abram

community manager skills

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 Jobs Round-up – 04/14/17

April 14, 2017 By Shannon Abram

Community manager job alerts

Every week we share a list of new community management and social media jobs – usually everything from community coordinators all the way up to director level positions (depends on what we can find each week). This week as a special bonus posting we’re featuring an open role with TheCR team – a … [Read more...]

Friday Community Jobs Roundup – 3/31/17

March 31, 2017 By Shannon Abram

cmgr jobs

It's the last day of March and Spring is officially here. Evern if there is snow on the ground in Boston (just a little left) we are ready for budding flowers and balmy breezes. What goes great with the changing of the season? A new community job perhaps? Each Friday we compile a comprehensive … [Read more...]

Friday Community Jobs Round-Up – 02/24/17

February 24, 2017 By Shannon Abram

cmgr jobs

Each Friday we compile a comprehensive list of the latest jobs across community management. Be sure to check back in each week to see the latest listings. Know of a great community opening that we've missed? Let us know and we'll add it to the list!   Employee Communications Content … [Read more...]

CMGRs are Entry-Level? Not Anymore.

February 8, 2016 By Shannon Abram

Community Careers Experience

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...]

Friday Roundup – #SOCM2016 Week 2 – CMGR Essentials

February 5, 2016 By Shannon Abram

CMGR Essentials

By Shannon Abram, Director of Marketing at The Community Roundtable. We're in week two of the 7th annual State of Community Management research survey and contributions are rolling in. I cannot stress enough how important this research is - and how valuable your contributions are to us, and … [Read more...]

Infographic: Social Media Etiquette for Business

September 11, 2014 By Shannon Abram

Social Media Etiquette

By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable Earlier this week we shared three best practices for budgeting community and social media programs that were culled from some interesting discussions between members inside TheCR Network (missed it? check out the post & best … [Read more...]

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