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Higher Logic Vanilla Community Guidelines
Welcome to the Higher Logic Vanilla Community. This forum has been created so that our customers can converse, get support, exchange ideas and connect with anyone else using a Vanilla powered hosted community. Every community has its own culture and boundaries and we are excited to create this space for you, but we also…
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Monthly Metrics: January 2025 📊
Hey Vanilla Friends 👋 Welcome back to our new monthly metrics program. In case you missed our earlier installments, you can see them here. For a while now we've had many people asking for some kind of reference for their community metrics. Many of you want to know how your community compares to other Vanilla Customers.…
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#TipTuesday - Encouraging Internal Stakeholder Engagement
Well, it is a bit late, but it is still Tuesday! Today I wanted to talk a bit about how to encourage internal stakeholders to engage with your customer community. Create a staff-only leaderboard - showcase those staff members who are impacting the value of your community through a board that focuses on employee roles. Set…
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Anyone using SlapFive or Base?
Hi everyone! We just signed a contract with HL Vanilla at the end of the year and will be migrating over by mid-year. We're also currently Influitive customers and are likely looking to migrate off that platform. I know SlapFive has an integration with Vanilla, and Base can integrate as well. Would love to hear from anyone…
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How Do You Know if Your Community is Healthy?
I have had a lot of conversations with community professionals, and one of the biggest common areas of interest (and often frustration!) is knowing what the data actually tells us about the health of our community. Discussions, comments, comments per discussion, page views, active users, new users…I can track all of that…
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Level Up Your Community Engagement - Gamification Tips & Tricks [ 🎥 recording ]
In case you missed our session earlier today, we had a great chat about leveling up your gamification strategy. Check out the recording below! Ready to supercharge engagement in your Higher Logic Vanilla community? Join us for an exclusive session where we’ll dive into effective gamification strategies that will elevate…
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Real Talk about Gamification
In my years in community work, I have come across a lot of differences of opinion when it comes to gamification. I tend to look at it as a way to help motivate and reward the behaviors I want to see from my audience, but to many it can feel too artificial or too frivilous. Where do you land in the gamification spectrum? Do…
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Are threaded (indented) discussions available?
Good day everyone, In longer discussions with multiple participants, it makes things easier to follow when you can reply to a particular poster and the location of your reply is based on who you reply to rather than when you replied in the discussion. Is the "Quote" feature the best way to do this? Thank you, Toby
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Is there a way to have user's fill out required profile fields after registration?
Hello! Our community has gone through a couple of iterations of required profile fields for our users, for tracking purposes. The problem is that when you add a new required profile field, users aren't notified about it. Is there a way to have a prompt show up letting the user know they must fill out the required profile…
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December Success Community Roundup! 🎄 🕎 🎅🏼 🕯️ 🎆
Hey Success Community! 👋 I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season with friends and family, and some time to relax! We're a few days late due to our own time away from work, but let's take a look at some of the highlights from the last month of 2024: 📊 Analytics Analytics Hackathon 2024! 💻 Custom Table Help -…
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Surveying your Community
I'm ready to start surveying my community and asking my users about what content they are enjoying and what they want more of… Somebody stop me if this is not the right strategy to try and increase consumption or engagement on the platform. My end goal is singular in that I'm wanting to give the content that really matters…
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Organizing country-specific and multilingual content
In April, we'll be expanding our community to many more global members than we do today. I would say about 90% of our community's content is relevant to all users, regardless of what country they live in, but 10% may only be relevant to to you depending on the country you reside in. I'm thinking we'll use a tagging…
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Community newsletters and roundups?
Hiya Vanilla Community! 👋 I was chatting with some community managers today who were thinking about creating a newsletter or round up with community and product content for their community. I love the roundups that @Kirstie Macfarlane does (especially obsessed with the gif and emoji usage 👌) — you can see those here: I'm…
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Documentation Updates - 12/12/24
Listed below are the latest updates to the Vanilla knowledge base: ✔️ TIP: Consider following this Category to be notified about future posts. Article update: Add & Configure Layout Editor Widgets Summary: Updated to focus exclusively on the common widget options that are shared among all widgets, such as their display…
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Customer Showcase November 2024: Community purpose, data, and tangible business impact
Hi all! We're Peter (@padams) and Maureen (@mrice) and we lead customer enablement and customer marketing at ChurnZero, an industry-leading customer success platform that helps subscription businesses keep customers and keep growing. Our community is where our customers share ideas, learn from each other, and engage with…
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November Success Community Roundup! 🦃 🥧 🍁
Hey Success Community! 👋 Happy Thanksgiving to all of our American friends, we hope you're enjoying your time with family and friends - and eating lots of delicious food! Let's take a look at what's been happening in the Success Community this month: 📊 Analytics Analytics Hackathon 2024! 💻 Monthly Metrics: November 2024 📊…
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How Are You Aligning Community to Company Goals?
Community metrics are part of the lifeblood of community management. How well are you meeting needs? Are you providing value? But an often overlooked component of community metrics is how your internal leadership perceives the value of community. How are you making sure your leaders understand the true value your community…
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Analytics for Ideas
Hi all! As some of you may know, we recently migrated all our ideas to Community. Now comes the fun part: data. I need deeper insights than what the out of the box 'Ideas' dashboard offers, but I am struggling to set it up. So far, with Vanilla's help, I've managed to create: ideas with at least 1 comment. Downside: this…
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Automating ‘More on this topic…’ suggestions
Hi Vanilla friends, I’m currently working on improving our knowledge base setup on our Community. As part of this, I’m testing how User Guides from WithSecure would look on our community. In our current user guides (which do not sit on our community), we end each article with a ‘More on this topic…’ section that highlights…
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Focused Analytics
Hey all! So, we know that analytics are a crucial part of community management, but it can be an area that many community managers struggle with. I know that I have a standard set of analytics I look at weekly, monthly, and yearly: Total Members - how is growth doing? Active Members - how many members are logging in and…
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Monthly Metrics: November 2024 📊
Hey Vanilla Friends 👋 Welcome back to our new monthly metrics program. In case you missed last month, you can see it here. For a while now we've had many people asking for some kind of reference for their community metrics. Many of you want to know how your community compares to other Vanilla Customers. Every month we will…
