By now, countless organizations have learned the painful lesson: “If you build it, they will come,” only works in the movies. But there’s a related lesson that is a core tenet of community management. How you build it—the shape of the community you create—drives whether the community meets your … [Read more...]
Throwback Thursday – Building Your Community
By Amy Turner, The Community Roundtable A community is only as successful and effective as the people who are part of it. When first starting out, or perhaps re-energizing and re-building a stale community, how do you build a strategy and lay the foundation for a successful one? We've compiled … [Read more...]
Throwback Thursday – Community Management 101
By Shannon Abram, The Community Roundtable Looking to get started in community management, or just need a refresher on the basics? Check out these community management 101 resources! We're highlighting the fundamentals of community management in this week's #throwbackthursday post - including an … [Read more...]
Throwback Thursday – Community Strategy 101
By Shannon Abram, The Community Roundtable Too often new community managers (or veteran community managers faced with a brand new community) will dive right in - because from day one, the to-do list can be daunting. We can't urge you strongly enough: STOP! DROP! STRATEGIZE!! To liberally … [Read more...]
The Community Maturity Model
Community management is becoming a lot more common at all sorts of organizations - driven by adoption of people doing more and more online and the social media tools that allow for easy conversation and collaboration. As that happens, however, there is a lot of friction due to lack of standards - … [Read more...]
