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Engagement That Scales – Episode #13 – Scott Monty on the Lather, Rinse, Repeat Problem in Leadership

September 25, 2020 By Shannon Abram

Scott Monty

Every week Rachel Happe chats for 30 minutes with a new guest – no script, no rules. In episode #13 Rachel and Scott Monty talk about how constant change in leadership negatively impacts employee engagement, the shift from historic communication styles to digital environments, and the effect … [Read more...]

Engagement That Scales
communications, engagement that scales, executive engagement, ford, loyalty, podcast, rachel happe, Scott Monty, social media, trust

Conversations with Community Managers – Lauren Klein on Community Leadership

May 4, 2020 By Shannon Abram

Lauren Klein Community Manager

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...]

TheCR Podcasts
empowerment, executive engagement, leadership

Matthew Radford, Ontario Medical Association

January 18, 2018 By Shannon Abram

Welcome to the latest episode in our community management podcast series, “Conversations with Community Managers.” Join TheCR’s Jim Storer and Shannon Abram as they chat with community managers from a variety of industries about their community journey. They ask the … [Read more...]

TheCR Podcasts
conversations with community managers, executive engagement, igloo, platforms, podcast, re-org

Why don’t executives take part in community?

June 14, 2017 By Ted McEnroe

best online community research resources

Executive engagement has long been considered a critical element of community growth. But getting executives to be truly involved in communities has been a tremendous challenge for community managers. So what’s keeping executives from jumping in, even when they think community is a critical … [Read more...]

Research, State of Community Management
executive engagement, research, SOCM, socm 2017

Throwback Thursday – The Social Executive, or Easy Executive Engagement

August 25, 2016 By Shannon Abram

how to get executives to understand community

By Shannon Abram, The Community Roundtable We hear from too many community pros that they work tirelessly on programs, spend countless hours interacting and engaging with their community members, and even working to define and strategize around community strategy and roadmaps - only to be met … [Read more...]

Throwback Thursday
executive engagement, the social executive, throwback, throwback thursday

Six Tips for Selling Social Media and Community to the C-Suite

August 9, 2016 By Amy Turner

Best Community Manager Resources

By Amy Turner, The Community Roundtable Need some help convincing executives why your organization needs to be more active in social media and community? TheCR Network spoke with Jaime Punishill and discussed practical strategies for selling these important social functions to the C-Suite. Set … [Read more...]

Community Management Best Practices
c-suite, Community, executive engagement, social media

Who’s the most valuable group for your community engagement? (It’s not your CEO.)

July 6, 2016 By Ted McEnroe

Community superusers and subject matter experts

By Ted McEnroe, Director of Research and Training Who is the person you most need involved to create a successful online community (other than a full-time community manager)? It's not your CEO. Or anyone else in the C-suite. Our State of Community Management research finds that while … [Read more...]

State of Community Management
engagement, executive engagement, socm2016, subject matter experts

My community is great! Why is it failing?

April 5, 2016 By Ted McEnroe

One possible reason? Because you're working in isolation. Learn to connect your community with your organization with Community Program Essentials! By Ted McEnroe, Director of Research and Training, The Community Roundtable You’ve probably been there at some point. You run (or are a member of) … [Read more...]

Build, Grow, Resources
benchmarking, business cases, executive engagement, playbooks, training

Executive Engagement in Three Venn Diagrams

March 15, 2016 By Shannon Abram

By Rachel Happe, Principal at TheCR I admit it, I’m a bit wonky. I really love Venn Diagrams, in part because I think most of the interesting things in life happen at intersections.  When I was asked to speak to a group of women about my online presence last week, I found myself using three Venn … [Read more...]

Strategy
executive engagement, venn diagram

Three truths of successful communities – the SOCM2014 in review

February 22, 2016 By Ted McEnroe

successful communities

By Ted McEnroe, Director of Research and Training, The Community Roundtable The State of Community Management 2014 marked a major step in the evolution of the quantitative ways we were able to assess what worked in community management - and in successful communities. The prior year, the State of … [Read more...]

State of Community Management
community maturity, executive engagement, member advocacy, SOCM, SOCM2014

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