In this episode, I share five books on community management that I thoroughly recommend you read as an aspiring or experienced community manager.  There are ideas, nuggets of information and insights in each!

In this episode, we introduce the different types of community and how they are classified into their types. Listen in to find out more and identify the type of community you are building.  

In this episode, we explore the importance of your content strategy to create meaningful, engaging and sustainable content that is tailored and relevant to your alumni audience and attracts your alumni to engage with your network and your brand.

Based on the results of the 2021 Corporate alumni benchmarking report conducted by the University of British Columbia Saunder School of Business, in partnership with PeoplePath, we explore the opportunities for alumni leaders to develop and take their alumni network and programme to the next level.  The podcast includes ideas for improving the numbers of registered alumni, alumni communications and measuring overarching business metrics.

In this episode, we will look at the transition from Launch (Stage 2) to the Establishment stage (Stage 3) of the community lifecycle framework.  We look at the change in objectives and change in the role of the alumni community manager in terms of engagement tactics and tasks.

There are so many different ways you can engage your corporate alumni network or community.  In this episode, we explore areas of focus from A to Z - that's 26 different tips for you to consider!

There are so many different ways you can engage your corporate alumni network.  In this episode, we explore 14 cost-effective tactics or methods to engage your alumni.

In this podcast episode, we touch on some of recent research on consumer behaviour and apply these to alumni programme and community management.  Bringing the human element into your planning is critical – after all alumni communities are people networks.  Specifically we look at four key principles:  integrity, empathy, personalisation and agility.