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I was well into my career as a community builder before I realized the value of intentionally setting aside time to talk directly with members — by phone, Zoom, or even in person when possible. It’s easy to get caught up in moderation queues, analytics, and content calendars. But some of the best community insights come…
I joined the AI Study group call with @Nicole and @MariusCiortea yesterday (future events here https://success.vanillaforums.com/search?domain=event&query=study%20group&scope=site&source=community) ) Marius introduced the group to MCPs and we talked about how people are using AI with their Vanilla communities. I wanted to…
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…
It's May! And to celebrate, the Vanilla Support Team is trialing a new communication channel. We're turning off our phones for the month and replacing them with schedulable 10-minute Zoom calls. That's right! All Vanilla customers will now be able to schedule a 10-minute Zoom call - often within the hour - with an…
Hello everyone! I am a part-time, solo employee for my company's community. I would love to hear your daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly checklists that you complete to make sure you are staying on top of everything and keeping track of all the necessary moving parts. Since I don't have as much time as a full-time employee, I…
Hi Community! The Blackbaud Community hosts a quarterly Partner Spotlight Series webinar featuring partner solutions in 10-13 minute speed demos. The Spotlight Series is a valuable way for our members to discover and learn more about these partner solutions. As the catalog of sessions grew, so did the need for a more…
Ideation programs can be intimidating, and many community teams shy away from implementing them. Sometimes, it's because they feel they won't get buy-in from the Product team, or they think the initial support will eventually fade away. Especially in large communities, teams may also fear receiving a high volume of ideas…
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…
Can someone clarify the best way to simply dismiss posts that end up in the "Reports" queue? This post was flagged because of spam automation, but it is live on our community. Last time this happened, I believe I clicked "approve" but then a duplicate of the post was posted to our site. I assume if I click "reject," it…
I am trying to create a report where I can see who is posting by role and a second report of who is answering (commenting) by role? How do I do this? Scott
Hey folks 👋 I’m trying to find a good way to measure something similar to resolution rate in our community. Basically: of all questions asked, how many do we actually solve? The goal is to better understand how helpful our support is (and ideally an indication for user satisfaction too). I know there’s the Accepted Answer…
Hi everyone, I'm currently trying to figure out how to assign posts to other users so they can provide answers. I'm aware that certain permissions and roles are required for this, but I'm not sure how to properly implement it on our platform. If anyone has experience with assigning posts or can share best practices on how…
Good day Community - I am building a process to bring Ideas into my community and reviewing Vanilla's analytics and integrating with Jira to help the Product Team triage submitted ideas. My goals are to make the process easy and transparent for customers while giving the Product Team the tools to make holistic decisions.…
Hi everyone, I've been asked by our product design team if there's a way to download all comments from a community post, including user names and company in an excel file or csv? For context, we post a lot of feedback opportunities and get lots of feedback so the team want a way of easily categorising the feedback based on…
An introduction to MCP for community professionals For most community teams, AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude have become a regular part of the workflow, but they've always had a fundamental limitation: they have no connection to your community platform. Every time you want an informed answer, you're manually pulling data…
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.…
Join our AI Study Group for Community Managers. At each session we'll discuss what group members are experimenting with and learning, how we're using AI in our communities, and help one another problem solve. The group meets monthly, and is open to any community professionals interested in the topic of AI. Hosted by our…
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