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Hi, We are a fairly new community and one of the challenges we are currently facing in our community is that members are not actively creating posts or starting conversations. Vanilla platform does not have an inbuilt badge to offer points for asking a question or starting a discussion. However, i feel that if we do that…
Take a minute and ask yourself: Who in your community is doing something really great right now? Who has come up with a creative approach that’s making a difference? Who deserves a little more recognition for the work they’re doing? The Super Forum Awards are your chance to shine a light on them (yes, even if the answer is…
Hey Vanilla friends 👋 In cased you missed our session earlier - check out the recording below! Your leadership wants a number, but your community doesn't work like a marketing campaign. Every community leader eventually faces the same question from leadership: "What's the ROI?" It's a fair question - and a genuinely hard…
Hey Vanilla friends 👋 Have something to share with other community builders? Maybe you’ve solved a tricky problem, learned something the hard way, or found an approach that other Vanilla customers could use. We’d love to hear about it at Super Forum. The Call for Proposals closes October 30. Propose a Session 🏆 Super Forum…
Hey Vanilla friends 👋 Summer is officially over and school is back in session (exciting for some, maybe less so for those actually participating 😂) Let's take a look at what's been happening in the Success Community this month: 🍦 Vanilla Updates A clearer way to plan your community structure 🧭 🌐 Move your community to AI…
Meeting with other community peeps has alway floated my boat. For decades, Susan Tenby has been providing San Francisco meetups for professionals in community, social, marketing, scaled service to connect. Come join us Thursday, with special guest star Scott Wilder and complementary food, bev and rizz. This meeting is…
Ever stare at your content calendar and think, “What piece of content should we prioritize next?” Your community members may already be giving you the answer and one of the best places to look for content ideas is in Search Analytics, the Searches without results chart. When members search your community and their searches…
If you’re a Vanilla customer, we’d especially love to welcome you to Super Forum, Higher Logic’s annual gathering for customers, community leaders, partners, and industry peers. Whether this will be your first Super Forum or you’re returning, it’s an opportunity to connect, exchange ideas, and help shape what comes next.…
Picture this: you sit down with your coffee (or Celsius!) and open your community’s dashboard. Whoa? That’s a big jump in page views! Before you add that new number to your executive reporting let’s dive in and understand what might be going on. Recently, GrettaKraus started a discussion about noticing an uptick in…
Hello! Lately (as I think we all are), I have been noticing such a huge uptick in non-human traffic. I know that it is "normal" to see an increase, but I feel like my ratio has gotten out of hand. Below are some of my ratios from the past couple months. I would love to know what your community views look like in terms of…
Hello, Is it possible to change a name of a category without impacting the access of users who have saved the link? I think each category has a unique identifying number that would remain the same even if a category name was updated- but I'm not certain.
Hi everyone, We're looking to expand the analytics we track within our Knowledge Base and were curious if anyone has found a way to track file downloads from individual KB articles in Higher Logic Vanilla. Ideally, we'd like to understand how often downloadable resources within an article are being used, alongside metrics…
Hi all, My community has an important announcement to make and, for the first time in our community's history, we would like our members to receive an email notification ONLY FOR THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. Is there a way to reach all community members via email for this use case? I've explored: - Editing default notifications, but…
Hi all, We're looking for a way to add a service account "comment" to a post that: Appears/sends after a Question has had no response after X amount of time Only displays for the original poster OR displays for everyone, but does not make the question "answered" I know we can set up an automation rule to send an email, but…
Hello, I want to create a new role that would provide our Support team members access to see our Community user list and their roles. This would let our support team troubleshoot when a user says they aren't able to log in, and confirm that deactivated platform users have been moved to our Former Member role in the…
Hi, I'm trying to create the Participation Rate graph as a bar or line graph so we can easily compare week over week, month over month, but I can't seem to crack it. Has anyone else done this already?
Hi everyone! I remember seeing posts from the Vanilla team sharing anonymized, aggregated data from across customer communities — the kind of thing you could use to benchmark your own metrics against peers in different industries. I can't seem to track them down now. Does anyone know where they live, or whether they're…
Hello! Looking to create specific page layouts for our different types of post (feedback, questions, etc.). Is this possible?
Is there currently a way to export a list of badge recipients or badge data from Community? We’re exploring ways to track badge distribution and recognition activity, and I wanted to check if there’s an existing export feature or recommended workaround. Thank you!
Begging of Your Thoughts Post - Incoming 🙏 How are you planning, and tracking your Community Content and Engagement? Do you build a calendar doc, Trello Board, JIRA Epics, Microsoft Planner? Are you planning future content posts and tracking engagement in separate tools? Have you designed some super impressive Vanilla…
Join our AI Study Group for Customer Marketers. At each session we'll discuss what group members are experimenting with and learning, how we're using AI in our Customer Marketing efforts, and help one another problem solve. The group meets monthly, and is open to any community professionals interested in the topic of AI.…
What does an AI-powered community look like in practice? Mary Green of Infor will share how her team is using AI and Higher Logic Vanilla to improve three critical parts of the member experience: Routing unanswered questions to the right experts Creating onboarding experiences that community teams can easily update…
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