The Community Roundtable

Empowering global community leaders with research-backed resources, training, and tools.

DJ Waldow on Scale Issues and a Day in His Life

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The Community Roundtable has partnered with Voce Communications to produce a new podcast series, "Conversations with Community Managers." In this series, TheCR's Jim Storer joins forces with Voce’s Doug Haslam to speak with people from a variety of industries about their efforts with … [Read more...]

Aaron Strout on Measurement and Best Practices

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I've been friends with Aaron since he and I were on the team together at Shared Insights. We worked on community projects like "We Are Smarter than Me" and traveled the country recording podcasts with industry rockstars. It was a bit odd interviewing Aaron since we'd tag-teamed so many interviews in … [Read more...]

Conversations with Community Managers – Diane Hessan

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Diane Hessan from Communispace is one of the most approachable CEOs you'll meet. When you meet her for the first time she really wants to get to know you and listens intently. It's not surprising she runs a successful social media company given this trait and it's also not surprising she has her … [Read more...]

Conversations with Community Managers – Michael Brito

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I found Michael Brito (@britopian) through a mention on Twitter. He'd written a blog post called "Social Media Marketing Will Soon Become a Commodity Skill Set" and it somehow found it's way into my stream. I agreed with the premise and let Michael know on Twitter. We had a back and forth and before … [Read more...]

Conversations with Community Managers – Bryan Person

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It's a little ironic that I'm doing a podcast with Bryan since the first time we met it was to discuss the best practices and lessons learned he'd accumulated in creating podcasts for Monster.com. He taught me everything I needed to know about podcasting, which served me well at SXSWi when Aaron … [Read more...]

Conversations with Community Managers – David Alston

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Rachel and I had a chance to sit down with David Alston from Radian6 last week. I first met David at a Social Media Breakfast in Boston and was inspired by how he looks at the way marketing (and the role of the CMO) is changing as social media and community become more prevalent in business. In this … [Read more...]

Introducing @TheCR Quick Chat

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While Rachel and I spend a lot of our time working with Community Roundtable members to help them be successful community managers, we also want to make sure some of what we do gives back to folks that aren't members yet, but still want to stay on top of the latest trends/issues in community … [Read more...]