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The State of Community Management (SOCM) research has evolved with the industry, moving from qualitative to quantitative. Initially, the research focused on the practices and tactics of community management (from 2011-2013) and then evolved into discussing the operational approaches needed to do community management well (from 2014-2017).
What community management is and how it is effectively executed have now largely been documented. This year, we are transitioning the research yet again and focusing on the strategic impact communities are having and how they are supporting key business goals.
The results are compelling.
This year the research led to three key findings:
- Communities are change agents: Community programs impact multiple functions, stakeholders, and departments in organizations. They have immense potential to be agents of change by efficiently dispersing knowledge and information across organizations and their markets.
- Communities create transformational value: Community programs show an average ROI that exceeds 2,000%. They enable behavior changes that directly impact profitability and revenue generation, while also having an overwhelmingly positive impact on brand and cultural sentiment.
- Community teams are underfunded: Community professionals are burnt out due to increasing success and workloads without the accompanying increase in resources and support. This is limiting impact.
We found some remarkable results paired with some troubling disconnects that are limiting the even greater impact communities could have. Together, these trends capture what we see anecdotally in the community space: lots of success and even more potential.
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