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Hi there! I'm looking to learn from fellow community managers: What are your best practices for making important announcements stand out in your community? Whether it's product updates, policy changes, or promoting biggest event of the year, how do you ensure your members see and engage with the announcement? (Aiming to be…
I'd love to learn more about how you use these in your communities and how you determine when to ban a user vs delete their account. Are there some benefits for choosing either of these options or what would be the downfalls of choosing one versus the other?
We are in the process of migrating an existing community to Vanilla and are deciding what to do with legacy activity-related badges that do not exist in Vanilla (an example of this would be our badge for responding to polls). Would love to hear from anyone else who migrated an existing community and faced a similar…
Building a strategy help encourage your members to move from content consumer to super user is a great investment of time. But some of the methods we use work better than others. I would love to hear some of the things you are doing to nurture your users successfully, or if there are certain points in the process that you…
As a marketer, I rely on UTM parameters all the time. They’re one of the easiest ways to see which emails, social posts, or announcements are sending people to your community and which ones aren’t pulling their weight. So if you’ve ever looked at your analytics and wondered “How did people end up here?” a missing UTM might…
Which widget is used for this carousel below in the success community? I would like to create similar widget for our community where we can feature content from different sites.
Hello! We're transitioning to hosting all of our beta testing in our Community using the Groups function so that we can centralize feedback and communications and ensure a repeatable and standardized experience for our beta testers. I'm wondering if anyone else has implemented anything like this and if you have any advice…
A community manager friend has been asked to create one slide which tells the story of her community impact at a high level. She is to use metrics like total user count, active user analysis, and other top-level insights that reflect the community’s performance and impact. If you were to make such a slide, what would you…
Answering questions and fostering genuine connections and trust between members are often key community goals. This is precisely where "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) sessions and "Office Hours" prove invaluable, transforming impersonal digital spaces into vibrant hubs of humans. Easy to produce A key advantage of AMAs and Office…
Hi everyone! I wanted to share a bit about my journey customising our community on Higher Logic Vanilla without developer resources in case it's interesting and why I believe it’s something anyone can try. Some context Over the years, I’ve been part of small community teams that didn’t always have the luxury of in-house…
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