Join the community experts at The Community Roundtable as they chat about online community management best practices with a wide range of global community professional. Topics include increasing online audience engagement, finding and leveraging executive stakeholders, defining and calculating … [Read more...]
(Roundtable) Launching A New Community User Interface
Whether you're working on a community redesign project or just love to talk UX/UI, this call is for you. On the call, Stephanie Field, Community Manager at Carbon Black, one of her most recent projects. When she came into the role as a new hire, she was tasked with improving the UI of Carbon … [Read more...]
TheCR’s Community Platform Requirements Library & Vendor Comparison Tool
Do you need to evaluate community platforms? Are you being asked to justify your existing platform? Are you looking at platform gaps but are not sure you are thinking of everything? The Community Roundtable has collaborated with our members to develop two new tools to support this … [Read more...]
30+ Years of Community Resources
A couple days ago I paused to reflect on all of the people and resources that have helped me (and The Community Roundtable, our members, and partners) since we launched in 2009. It's not a short list. I put the question to TheCR team and we started to collaborate on a list of resources going back as … [Read more...]
What is Conversation Research? An Infographic Explainer
Recently, Jason Falls, the Co-Founder of the Conversation Research Institute (CRI) joined members of TheCR Network for an exploration of conversation research. With years of experience in social technology, both on the agency side and brand side Jason developed the concept of conversation research. … [Read more...]
Tools for Community Management: Trello, Canva, Slack.
The recent Atlassian acquisition of Trello, got me thinking about some of my favorite community manager planning, design and communication tools. Turns out my top three go-to tools for community management were not designed specifically with community management work in mind. Nonetheless, I … [Read more...]
The Value Of Social Business – Infographic
As we continue the conversation on the value of community management I think it's helpful to take a step back and think about social business as whole. This weeks infographic, originally published on MindJet is a great look at how companies think about social as a business tool. Not surprisingly, … [Read more...]
Building Value: Articulating the Power of Community Management
Over and over we hear from members and peers that articulating the value of a thoughtful and well-executed community program is one of the hardest parts of their job. Sure - wrangling tough community members isn't a walk in the park, and no one likes a troll, but condensing the power of community … [Read more...]
Building your Community Approach
By Shannon DiGregorio, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. Here on The Community Roundtable blog we've decided to try something new for 2014. Each month we'll pick an aspect of community management and tackle it from many angles, providing commentary, resources and expert opinions. … [Read more...]
Announcing the State of Community Management Toolkit
By Shannon DiGregorio, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable The State of Community Management (SOCM) has been one of our core research platforms and we are excited to announce the availability of The State of Community Management Toolkit, which includes both newly released research … [Read more...]
