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Dina Vekaria + Maren Beckman on Remote Teams

March 9, 2020 By Jim Storer

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 online community ROI and more. 

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Episode #65 features Maren Beckman, Global Community Manager, and Dina Vekaria, Senior Global Community Manager at Pearson.

In this episode of the podcast, Maren and Dina discuss best practices for time zone management on remote teams, thriving on a dispersed team, the power of using “work out loud” (WOL) practices for accountability and visibility, and their successful “People of Person” vlog series.

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About Conversations with Community Managers*
To better reflect the diverse conversations our podcast covers we’ve changed the name of our long-running series to Community Conversations.
Community Conversations highlights short conversations with some of the smartest minds in the online community and social business space, exploring what they’re working on, why they do what they do, and what advice they have for you.
These episodes are a great way to begin to understand the nuances of community strategy and management.
Each episode is short (usually less than 30 minutes) and focuses on one community management professional.

Podcast: SOCM 2019 Highlight – Communities Propel Engagement

August 19, 2019 By Jim Storer

Welcome to the latest episode in our community management podcast series, “Conversations with Community Managers.”

Jeff Ross SOCM 2019 Podcast

Join TheCR’s Shannon Abram as she chats with Rachel Happe, Principal and Co-Founder of The Community Roundtable, and Jeff Ross, Community Manager at Humana about the State of Community Management 2019 report.

In Episode #59, Rachel and Jeff discuss key finding #1 from the 2019 research: Communities Propel Engagement

Jeff shares a look at how he uses the State of Community Management research, as well as ways he drives engagement in the Humana community.


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Cynthia Fortlage on the Evolution of Internal Cultural Development

November 18, 2015 By Jim Storer

Welcome to the latest episode in our community 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

  1. What’s your best advice for someone just starting out in Community Management?
  2. What are your best practices for increasing community engagement?
  3. How can you survive the zombie apocalypse? (Ok – they might not ALL be community questions…)

Episode #36 features Cynthia Fortlage, Vice President Information Technology And Social Business Leader at GHY International. Join us as we chat about evolution of their internal cultural development, how IT and social business intersect and how community management has changed in the last six years.

https://www.communityroundtable.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Conversations_NigelFortlage.mp3

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About Conversations with Community Managers*
To better reflect the diverse conversations our podcast covers we’ve changed the name of our long-running series to Community Conversations.
Community Conversations highlights short conversations with some of the smartest minds in the online community and social business space, exploring what they’re working on, why they do what they do, and what advice they have for you.
These episodes are a great way to begin to understand the nuances of community strategy and management.
Each episode is short (usually less than 30 minutes) and focuses on one community management professional

https://media.blubrry.com/608862/communityroundtable.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Conversations_NigelFortlage.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Spotify | RSS

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