This glossary is a growing collection of terms that we are building in collaboration with CSCCE community members as part of our work to support the emerging field of scientific community management. Many of these terms are regularly used in our trainings and resources.
Structure of the glossary
The glossary is comprised of different subsections that correspond to specific accompanying resources, such as the CSCCE skills wheel, our inclusive language glossary, and our virtual events glossary.
You can explore the different subsections by browsing the categories indicated in the categories dropdown menu on this page.
We will be adding additional subsections in the coming months and welcome suggestions of areas that you’d like to work on. Please contact info@cscce.org with suggestions and feedback.
Browsing and citing the glossary
You can browse the glossary directly from this page by clicking a word from the complete glossary list below. You can also scan the alphabet for a specific letter and click on it to filter by that letter.
The page for each glossary term includes a corresponding citation for the resource and we request that you refer to that citation when using the terms in your work. Once we have created a first instance of a complete glossary, we will provide a citable DOI for the entire resource.
a
- Ableist language and behavior
- Accessibility
- Accessibility statement / guidelines
- Advancement, growth and sustainability
- Advocacy
- Agenda designer
- Ally/Allyship
- Analysis
- Archive / archiving
- Archiving of artifacts
- Asynchronous content
- Audience
b
- Backchannel
- Belonging
- Bi-directional communication
- Blog post
- Broadcast
c
- Call to action
- Camera etiquette
- Captions
- Champions program
- Change management
- CO-CREATE mode
- Code of conduct committee / responders
- COLLABORATE mode
- Collaboration
- (Communications) campaign
- (Communications) campaign archetype
- Community champion
- Community-engaged content
- Community governance
- Community lifecycle models
- Community of communities
- Community overview statement
- Community participation guidelines
- Community: shared purpose, belonging, culture, and power
- Conflict resolution
- Consultation and listening
- Content
- Content and programming audit
- Content calendar / editorial calendar
- Content creation and curation
- Content design
- Content elements
- Content Management System (CMS) administration
- Content pillar
- Content planning
- Content planning
- Content presentation
- Content strategy
- Content type
- CONTRIBUTE mode
- CONVEY/CONSUME mode
- Core values
- Creating a container
- Crits (aka critiques)
- CSCCE Community Participation Model
- Cultural competence
- Culture
- Curation
- Curation and content management
d
- Data analysis
- Data management
- Data visualization
- DEI / EDI / DEIA / JEDI / DEIB
- Design assets
- Discord
- Dominant voice / Dominant story
- Dry run / dress rehearsal
- Duties roster
e
- Ecosystem
- Editorial
- Emergent
- Emotional integration
- Engagement
- Etiquette
- Evaluation and assessment
- Event planning
- Event producer
- Evergreen content
- Explainer
f
- Facilitator
- Feedback channel
- Figure
- Financial management
- Formal champions
- Framing
g
- Github repo
- Guidebook
h
- Hashtag
- Headings or subheadings
- Holding space
- Hybrid event
i
- Icebreaker
- Indigenous land acknowledgment
- Infographic
- Informal champions
- Informational role (of content)
- Intentionality
- Interpreter
j
- Jargon
k
- Knowledge brokering
l
- Licensing
- Lived experience
- Livestreaming
- Logistics document
m
- Making a PACT framework
- Marketing and branding
- Media advisory
- Media production
- Media relations
- Meeting facilitation
- Member research
- Member types
- Mentoring
- Mode
- Moderation, mediation and intervention
- Moderator
- Multi-directional communication
- Multimodal programming
n
- Network-centric leadership
- Networking
- News article
o
- Office hours
- Onboarding pathways
- Operational planning and implementation
- Organizing committee
- Outreach
p
- Pair programming
- Paragraphs
- Personas
- Platform
- Polling
- Power
- Pre-work
- Presenter guidelines
- Press release
- Product management of technology platforms
- Program design
- Programming
- Proposal development
- Purpose
r
- Record-keeping
- Recruitment, welcoming and onboarding
- Reflection
- Registration form
- Relationship dashboard
- Reporting
- Response time
- Restorative approaches
- Retrospective / recap blog
- Risk assessment
- Risk mitigation
- Run-of-show
s
- Satellite events
- Scaffolding
- Sense-making
- Sentences
- Sessions
- Sexist language
- Shared goals
- Silencing
- Silent doc'ing
- Silo
- Social media
- Social media card
- Social role (of content)
- Speaking and presenting
- Stakeholders
- Steering committee
- Stock photo
- (Strategic) communications plan
- Strategy development
- Style guide
- Subtitles
- Supplementary tools
- Synchronous content
- Synthesis
- Synthesis
- Systems administration and maintenance
t
- Tag pruning / gardening
- Teaching and training
- Technical facilitator
- Technical support
- Themes and tracks
- Time management
- Tip sheet
- Tone
- Transactional information sharing
- Transcript
- Transformational information sharing
- Transmissive information sharing
- Transparent communications
- Twitter moment
u
- Universal design
- Use of acronyms
- Use of pronouns
v
- Virtual events platform
- Virtual help desk
- Virtual notes doc(ument)
- Voice
w
- Watch party
- Web and UI design
- Webinar
- Workshop
- Wrapper
z
- Zoom bombing
- Zoom fatigue