For many years, I had an uncomfortable relationship with the word 'leadership'. It seemed vague, imprecise and conflated with 'executive', especially in corporate settings. It certainly didn't apply to me. Then I was an executive and I still think of myself as a leader. To me, it felt like the word … [Read more...]
Podcast: SOCM 2019 Highlight – Community Leadership is Unevenly Distributed
Join TheCR’s Rachel Happe, Principal and Co-Founder of The Community Roundtable, as she chats with Marjorie Anderson, CSPO, Manager, Digital Communities at the Project Management Institute, about the State of Community Management 2019 report. In Episode #62, Rachel and Marjorie discuss … [Read more...]
Do You Have the Mindset to Lead the Future of Work?
With the streams and volume of information coming at us today, how do you prioritize your attention and time? This is a critical leadership question as we move further into the world of exponential growth and AI. I don’t think most people are ready for it - and not because they don’t want to … [Read more...]
Honoring Our Retiring Member Advisory Board Members
At The Community Roundtable, we are fortunate to work with amazing people and companies, helping them make strategic assets out of their community programs. We have always relied on our customer-members to help us prioritize and develop our research, services, and training. In 2017, we … [Read more...]
Friday Roundup: How The Best Community Managers Share Leadership
By Amy Turner, The Community Roundtable Let’s face it – a lack of “human capital” can play a huge role in slowing the growth of a community, and it’s only the most forward-thinking organizations that preemptively add capacity. That means it’s up to you to make the case for help, even as you do … [Read more...]
State of Community Management 2015 Monday Fact #7: Real rewards for community advocates
By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable Where's your college diploma? If you're like most people, it's hanging on an office wall, sitting in a drawer, or stuck in the back of a closet. It's nice to have, but the recognition that you graduated from the University of Western Maine or Generic … [Read more...]
5 reasons to recognize the superheroes in your online community
By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable This month, our new and brilliant Community Management Fellow, Georgina Cannie, kicked off a wonderful and equally new feature of TheCR Network. Starting this month, we are recognizing members of the network as TheCR Network Superheroes, complete with … [Read more...]
Community Management Case Study: The Evolution of a Community Advocacy Program
One of the perks of being a member of TheCR Network is access to fresh community management programming every week. Our community manager, Hillary Boucher, does an amazing job of tracking down interesting and engaging case studies from every stage of the community journey. This past … [Read more...]
Friday Roundup: Almost Fall Edition
By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. With Fall just around the corner things are back in full swing here at TheCR. This week I was lucky enough to attend a great marketing event, Inbound2014, held by Hubspot here in Boston. So many of the sessions I attended were … [Read more...]
Executive is Just Another Word for Community Manager
Executives are charged with executing on a set of goals. They all want to accomplish those goals in a way that maximizes their investments. Executives need to marshal a range of constituencies (their team, peers across the organization, customers, partners, experts, consultants) to make things … [Read more...]
