Join the community experts at The Community Roundtable as they chat about online community management best practices with a wide range of global community professionals. Topics include increasing online audience engagement, finding and leveraging executive stakeholders, defining and calculating … [Read more...]
Elizabeth Kohler on Engaging Online Learners
Join the community experts at The Community Roundtable as they chat about online community management best practices with a wide range of global community professionals. Topics include increasing online audience engagement, finding and leveraging executive stakeholders, defining and calculating … [Read more...]
Help me convince my boss that watercooler threads are important!
In a world where most offices are suddenly remote, watercooler threads on enterprise social networks/intranets/employee communities, communities of practices, and even social support communities are more valuable than ever. The in-person watercooler is gone for the foreseeable future and no … [Read more...]
Crisis Engagement Guidelines
As a rule, community professionals work to minimize their engagement in a community, preferring to focus on orchestrating and designing the environment, so others engage. In a crisis, however, stepping in and providing a steady, moderating voice is required as anxiety takes hold. Crisis engagement … [Read more...]
Four Ways Online Engagement Impacts Members
All engagement is not the same...and different engagement behaviors generate different outcomes. Engagement is challenging to measure because engagement is not a single action, but a range of behaviors. Without getting more specific about what kind of engagement is meaningful – and what … [Read more...]
Podcast: SOCM 2019 Highlight – Communities Propel Engagement
Welcome to the latest episode in our community management podcast series, “Conversations with Community Managers.” Join TheCR’s Shannon Abram as she chats with Rachel Happe, Principal and Co-Founder of The Community Roundtable, and Jeff Ross, Community Manager at Humana about the … [Read more...]
Online Communities Propel Engagement
Communities are central to the human experience. Communities are all around each of us and whether we recognize them explicitly, they have immense influence on our reality, our happiness, and our success. The communities we engage in define norms with which we unconsciously comply, hardwired as we … [Read more...]
Using Gamification to Increase Engagement In Online Communities
Heifer International is a global nonprofit with a mission to end hunger and poverty while caring for the Earth. For 75 years, they have provided resources and training to improve the lives of those who struggle daily for reliable sources of food and income. To celebrate their 75th anniversary, … [Read more...]
How Do I Improve Online Engagement?
Online community engagement issues fall into two general buckets: tactical engagement issues and strategic engagement issues. If you don’t have people coming to your online community at all, you have a strategic issue; if people are coming but not engaging, you have a tactical … [Read more...]
Orchestrating Compelling Engagement: TheCR’s Engagement Strategy Canvas
Engagement behaviors are a leading indicator of value Engagement is a key measure of attention, alignment, learning, and leadership. Sustained and deepening engagement is critical for organizations in a digital world where prospects, customers, and employees have endless options and distractions. … [Read more...]
