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...]
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 2015 Fun Fact #3: The three career paths of the community professional
By Ted McEnroe, Head of Research, The Community RoundtableOne of the target goals that we had for the Community Careers and Compensation survey in 2015 was to be able to shed more light on the skills of community. That's why we undertook a significant review and revision of the Community Skills … [Read more...]
Introducing the Updated Community Skills Framework
By Ted McEnroe, Head of Research, The Community RoundtableWhat do you say when you're asked to describe what you do as a community professional? I'm betting it's not an easy question to answer - particularly when it comes from Aunt Betty at the Thanksgiving table. What about when you try to … [Read more...]
