Our April Innovation Breakfast is scheduled for Friday, April 16 at 8:30 am at the IBM Innovation Center, 404 Wyman Street in Waltham.  We’ll be talking about Community Management and our discussion leader is Rachel Happe of The Community Roundtable, a peer network for community managers and social media practitioners.  RSVP now!

Rachel Happe (@rhappe) is a Co-Founder and Principal at The Community Roundtable and has over fifteen years of experience working with emerging technologies including enterprise social networking, ecommerce, and enterprise software applications. Prior to The Community Roundtable, Rachel served as a product executive at Mzinga, Bitpass, & IDe.  In addition, as a technology analyst, Rachel initiated IDC’s enterprise social software practice where she wrote groundbreaking research including The Power and Passion of Organic Communities: How Technology Can Be Used to Increase Discovery, Engagement, and Productivity;  The Social Enterprise: How Social Networking Changes Everything; and U.S. Social Networking Application 2008-2012 Forecast: Enterprise Social Networking Takes Hold. Rachel started her business career at PRTM as a Business Analyst focused on helping technology companies understand and improve their product development operations. She writes at The Social Organization.