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3 Quick Community Wins for February 2022

February 2, 2022 By Shannon Abram

Online community management best practices

Check these three easy community management to-dos off your list and set yourself up for community success in 2022. We are delighted that in recent years February has become a time to practice love in all its forms. If you're into all that Cupid stuff? Awesome! But the rise of Galentine's Day, … [Read more...]

Community Management Skills That Matter: Technical

April 23, 2018 By Shannon Abram

community manager skills

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.

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...]

CMAD 2016 – Unleash Your Inner Community Management Superhero

January 25, 2016 By Shannon Abram

Community Manager

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

December 21, 2015 By Shannon Abram

Community Manager Skills and Talents

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 … [Read more...]

The three career paths of the community professional

November 24, 2015 By Shannon Abram

Community Manager Career Trends

By Ted McEnroe, Head of Research, The Community Roundtable One 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

September 9, 2015 By Ted McEnroe

Community Manager Skills

By Ted McEnroe, Head of Research, The Community Roundtable What 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...]

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