Community Conversations is a long-running podcast series highlighting community success stories from a wide variety of online community management professionals.

Episode #93 of Community Conversations features Helen Chen, Senior Community Manager at Research Innovations Incorporated (RII).

Hosts Jim Storer and Shannon Abram chat with Helen about her work building community at Research Innovations, including programs for remote employees, executive lunches, and philanthropy activities. She shared advice for community teams looking to more deeply connect with a internal audience and shared best practices for building and maintaining a collaborative and innovative culture for employees.

Helen Chen is a Senior Community Manager at Research Innovations, Inc. She is a seasoned community strategist with proven experience leading public, private and social channel communities at organizations including VMWare, Carbon Black, and TheMathWorks.

Her specialties include community management, online learning, social media strategy, collaboration, web content development, organizational development, process optimization.

Research Innovations Inc. (RII) supports critical defense, intelligence, and cyber customers across the U.S. Government and with select international customers. RII is a leader in Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) efforts with its cutting-edge solutions, rapidly delivering transformative technology to customers and end-users to achieve its core purpose of “Creating RIIdiculously Awesome® solutions that make the world safer.” By combining user-centered design and agile development methods, they create innovative products and solutions for our customers. They focus on performing cutting-edge research and development of information systems that support Joint Command and Control, Mobile Computing and Cyberspace. Research Innovations is headquartered in Northern Virginia with several work locations and provides an environment and culture that rewards talent and accomplishment. They are a company of mission focused people who are satisfied when they deliver excellence and success to our customers.

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Community Conversations is a long-running podcast series highlighting community success stories from a wide variety of online community management professionals.

Episode #92 of Community Conversations features Lisa Tallman, Executive Director, and Israel Munoz, Community Manager, both of the Community Food Navigator, who join us to explore building mobile-first communities.

On this episode hosts Jim Storer and Shannon Abram chat with Lisa and Israel about:

As discussed in this episode:

As promised, here is the link to Israel’ mom’s cookbook. It’s an e-book and you can buy it either on Amazon or on Gumroad (I believe she prefers Gumroad as it is a bit more user friendly, but either way is fine). Israel was also generous enough to share screenshot for the Carlotta recipe (which in the cookbook is referred to as a Cold Lime Pie), as well as a Pineapple variation of it. 

The Community Food Navigator is community-powered and addresses challenges we face in the food system, such as accessing land, water, infrastructure, and funding. It is also a safe space for growers, producers, and organizers to share information, create community, and expand their work alongside others within the food system.

Community Food Navigator builds more resilient systems that prioritize:

• Food sovereignty for all residents
• Collective care and attention to need
• Equitable opportunities for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities
• Circular and sustainably focused design
• Education on the roles we all play in the production and consumption of food

Learn more: http://communityfoodnavigator.org and their mission as the work building mobile-first communities in Chicago, Il.

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