Community Management Business Skills: Integrating community into the organization Not surprisingly, the value of community management business skills grows as community managers more effectively integrate their communities with their overall organization. Directors of Community are … [Read more...]
Community Management Skills That Matter: Content
Content: Ensuring the community is generating value Community Managers place the highest relative value on content skills, although all three key roles give writing and communication high marks. Community managers’ content skills are focused on the development and production of community content … [Read more...]
Community Management Skills That Matter: Engagement
Engagement: The day-to-day lifeblood of communities Engagement skills are likely what comes to mind when one pictures the life of “typical” community manager, and these daily skills are indeed what helps communities form and grow. Engagement skills are a core community management skills family for … [Read more...]
Community Management Skills That Matter: Strategy
Strategy: Proving the value of community Strategic skills are the most valued skillset across all community roles, and community strategy development is the most valued of the 50 skills in the Community Skills Framework. For community professionals, this demonstrates the constant need to assess … [Read more...]
Building A Skill-Based Community Manager Job Ad
A quick search on LinkedIn finds more than 1,000 jobs with “Community Manager” in the title at any given moment. Subtract the ones about property management, and add in “Online Community”, “Community Specialist” and a dozen other terms and you are left with several hundred job descriptions — not two … [Read more...]
Community Jobs Roundup – 11/18/16
For the last year or so we've been sharing a weekly list of our favorite community reads from around the web, along with a curated list of community management and social media jobs. Overwhelmingly people have responded that they are coming back to check out the job list. So in the name of giving … [Read more...]
CMAD 2016 – Unleash Your Inner Community Management Superhero
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
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 of … [Read more...]
How can I be a more productive community manager?
By Shannon DiGregorio Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. This month we've been discussing community management hiring topics, including what traits a hiring manager might look for in a potential community manager and things an aspiring community manager can do before they … [Read more...]
Hiring for Social Media: Part 1
[This post is the first in an on-going series of posts by a members of The Community Roundtable, highlighting the voices of experienced community managers. It is cross-posted at Dawn's blog, Under The Hood] This is part one in a series on hiring a social media person or company. One of the … [Read more...]
