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A New Support Communication Channel!
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…
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Exporting Badge Recipient Data from Community
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!
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Live Demos to Lasting Value: Building the Partner Spotlight Series Hub
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…
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How Do You Build and Monitor Community Content and Engagement Plans
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…
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Lets talk AI Search Assistant
Higher Logic’s AI Search Assistant uses RAG, so it searches the community knowledge base and generates answers dynamically. That part is impressive on its own. But the part that really stood out to me is what happens when the AI can’t answer the question. Instead of stopping at “I don’t know,” it gives the user an option…
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#TipTuesday: Workshop your big ideas in public first
A lot of content gets made in isolation. You have an idea for a webinar or conference talk, you start outlining, and by the time anyone outside your team sees it, you're already deep into production. Before you commit to the bigger piece, try posting the core thesis or take somewhere your audience can react to it. Maybe…
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April Success Community Roundup!
Hey Vanilla friends 👋 Happy April - or if your family is anything like mine, happy practical joke month! 📚 Fun Story: A couple of years ago my husband took a free online coding class at Harvard. His brothers spent months breaking into our house and hiding Harvard themed swag around for us to later stumble across (mugs,…
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Are you attending CMX Summit in Redwood City next week? 👀
A handful of Higher Logic Vanilla people will be mingling about. 👩🏭 👨🔬 Would be great to connect in person, swap ideas, and put some faces to names. Please let me know if you’ll be there! Marc
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🚀 Introducing a new series: AI Study Group for Community Managers
Hey Vanilla friends 👋 We're very excited to you all to a great webinar series that our own @Nicole has been running. This interactive session is open to everyone — whether you're a Vanilla customer or just part of the broader community world. Curious how other community pros are actually using AI? Wondering what’s working,…
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#TipTuesday: Stop the Scroll - Spotlight Content with Featured Collections
Welcome back for another edition of #TipTuesday. Let's stop the scroll!! Featured Collections are your secret weapon to keeping eyes focused on what's important to your users. Instead of letting valuable resources get buried, you can spotlight key discussions, articles, or resources right where members will see them first.…
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AI and ROI
Good day Community, ROI is always a hot topic, and I am working with Claude AI to create an ROI worksheet from my monthly community health numbers. Here is a prompt I have used: Help me prove the ROI for my community based upon the questions asked and answered by customers. See the attached Community data for Feb 6, 2025 -…
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How to handle reported posts
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…
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#TipTuesday - Want More Community Engagement? Start With Ease of Use
Community managers spend a lot of time strategizing around engagement — programs, content, campaigns, tactics. But the single biggest lever you may be overlooking is this: how easy is it for members to actually find, access, and participate in your community? The best content in the world is worthless if people can't find…
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Examples of how you are using Custom Pages in your communities.
Hi everyone, My team is considering to use knowledge bases to share about our programs but I was also curious how others are leveraging custom pages and how this could also work alongside a KB. If you have some examples to share I would like to hear them, or even screenshots of your custom pages to get me inspired! Thanks.
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#TipTuesday – Cute, But Clear? Rethinking Community Rank Names for AI
Many communities use fun, branded rank names. These are great for personality and engagement, but here’s something to consider, especially if you have or are considering open community spaces: AI doesn’t understand “cute.” It understands clarity. As AI-powered search and answer engines increasingly pull from community…
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March Success Community Roundup! 🍀 🎩 🌈
Hey Vanilla friends! Happy March! Have you heard the statistic that the pub is widely considered one of Ireland's most iconic and successful cultural exports? True or not, it's always fun to throw on your green jumper and celebrate! Let's take a look at what's been happening in the Success Community this month: 🍦 Vanilla…
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Feature for the Win
Just wanted to share my thanks and appreciation for a new to me feature that I just LOVE! #DYK you can set a requirement that members apply at least 1 tag to their question?! In the past, I've had customizations built to address this because it used to be a requirement that Vanilla Community Members had to select a…
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Forward! March! We’re changing ranks!
Hey everyone! We’ve been at it again, working behind the scenes to enhance your experience. :) We’ve seen some amazing growth in this community in the last few years, and we’re so grateful for our amazing members! We’ve decided to change the names of our ranks to reflect the name of our platform – Higher Logic Vanilla.…
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#TipTuesday — Rethinking Groups: From Spaces to Experiences
Groups have always played an important role in community building - creating dedicated spaces for specific audiences, topics, or levels of access. But with recent platform enhancements, Groups can now do much more than simply organize members. They can help you design more intentional, engaging community experiences.…
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#TipTuesday Build a Moderator Hub Using Custom Pages!
The Problem with Scattered Moderator Tools Your moderators are busy people. When something needs attention, they shouldn't have to hunt through the dashboard, remember URLs, or ask you where to find things. A dedicated moderator hub — a single page visible only to your mod team — gives them a home base where they can…
