Recently in TheCR Network we asked members to share how they first encountered and got to know The Community Roundtable and its founders Jim Storer and Rachel Happe. It was fun to see where people had come from.
There were many ways people came to know The Community Roundtable.
- Past conferences Jim and Rachel attended back when community management and social business were terms only a few understood
- Working together
- Listening to Jim or Rachel speak at conferences and local events
- Coming to TheCRLive events
- Listening and talking and listening more on social media channels
- Sharing a beer and talking about life and work and the challenges we all face there.
Here’s my story:
It was April 6, 2009 and I was working from home. My husband commuted by airplane to his consulting clients regularly and the adult contact I had been having was with my toddler and her nanny. Clearly I needed to branch out. I was fairly new to this Twitter thing but had dived in with both feet and in month two online was discovering tweet ups. I’m not sure how or who pointed me to a Red Sox opening day tweet up at a bar near me. But there I was on a rainy April day watching a video of the Red Sox beating the Yankees in 2004 and having a beer and talking social media and life with Jim Storer and other great Boston tweeps. These were the days just before Jim and Rachel went live with The Community Roundtable, and while I knew nothing about the venture, I followed and listened and talked to Jim & those I met at that event while I was working on my own venture trying to rally support around an idea. And then I attended the first TheCRLive lunch. I was not sure what to expect and was also not sure what I could add to the conversation but I was sure I wanted to hear and learn more. This is where I first met Rachel. And immediately I knew I wanted to stay in the loop with this group. So I attended as many lunches as I could and subscribed to their newsletter. I learned that what I was really trying to do was build a community.
And that is what is so interesting about those we have met. No matter how we first came to know TheCR, we all hold a common interest(s) or context, a shared sense of purpose, and a common set of needs that we help each other with. Or in other words we are a community.
Now it’s your turn, please tell us how it is that you’ve come to be part of our community and why it is that you stay in touch.
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