From the monthly archives:

July 2009

@TheCR Quick Chat w/ Adam Cohen

by Jim Storer on July 29, 2009

I met Adam several years ago at my very first Social Media Breakfast in Boston and was impressed from the start. Whether it’s transforming business with social media and community, staying current with his blog or dissecting the latest Red Sox trade rumors, he’s up to the task.
When we caught up for this podcast Adam [...]

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@TheCR Live! – Now in New York City

by Rachel Happe on July 27, 2009

This summer, we’ve been hosting a series of casual Friday lunches for those in the Boston area who are interested in getting together and discussing the business of community and social media – with some fun thrown in.  Our intent is to keep these lunches relatively small, 10-15 people, so that while we’re being social [...]

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@TheCR Quick Chat w/ David Alston

by Jim Storer on July 21, 2009

Rachel and I had a chance to sit down with David Alston from Radian6 last week. I first met David at a Social Media Breakfast in Boston and was inspired by how he looks at the way marketing (and the role of the CMO) is changing as social media and community become more prevalent in [...]

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Show & Tell: How Community Managers Use Twitter

by Rachel Happe on July 20, 2009

There are Twitter users and there are Twitter users. For those of us that have been on Twitter for a while, usage has evolved as the applications and the social norms have. In a recent member roundtable with Laura Fitton, it became clear how important the use of applications, hashtags, and search were to community [...]

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Introducing @TheCR Quick Chat

by Jim Storer on July 16, 2009

While Rachel and I spend a lot of our time working with Community Roundtable members to help them be successful community managers, we also want to make sure some of what we do gives back to folks that aren’t members yet, but still want to stay on top of the latest trends/issues in community management.
With [...]

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A Merry Band

by Rachel Happe on July 13, 2009

Growing our community has been a lot of fun. One thing that we are learning is that people in online community management have diverse backgrounds – no two career paths look similar. Some people come from marketing communications and PR, some from product marketing/management, some from IT, and others from hiking the Alps or other [...]

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Roundtable Call: Tribalization of Business Study

by Jim Storer on July 7, 2009

A big part of what we’re trying to build with The Community Roundtable is a peer network that shares what we learn with our broader community. To that end, we made the Community Maturity Model open source and shared our construct for TheCR Quick Case and continue to figure out new ways to give what [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 – both social… and media

by Rachel Happe on July 7, 2009

The Enterprise 2.0 conference, while a little more subdued than last year, was a great event. It gave Jim and I the opportunity to meet and catch up with a lot of people – as well as to hold a Crab Tweetup with guest of honor, Connie Bensen.
Among my favorite quotes from the week were:
Nate [...]

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