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Introducing the “Power of Connection” Podcast 🎙️
Hi everyone, I’m excited to share that Higher Logic has launched a new podcast, “Power of Connection,” and I’ll be your host! In each episode, I sit down with business and community leaders who’ve seen firsthand how online communities can create stronger connections with customers. Get practical tips, new ideas, and real…
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📆 Partner Event: Lifecycle Advocacy: Explore the Next Level of Customer Activation
Our friends at SlapFive have a great event happening in NYC 🍎 this week that we wanted to share! If you're in the NYC area and rethinking how to scale customer growth, this workshop’s for you. Details below! Growth doesn’t always mean new spend. Advocacy is one of the few strategies that scales through timing, relevance,…
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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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Will you be at CMX Summit?
CMX Summit, a big community manager conference, is coming up May 1-2 in Redwood City, California. I've been to CMX Summits in the past and have always found them useful, so I am looking forward to attending this year. If you will be going, I would enjoy meeting you to talk about common interests. To sweeten the pot, I will…
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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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What are your best Search Metrics?
Hi all! We're looking to swap back to the native Vanilla Search page and are noticing some key metrics that we'd love are not available. Has anyone tried to track the following? Click Event Count - How many overall clicks happened on results from the search page User Query w/Clicks - list of queries (sorted by # of times…
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Monthly Metrics: April 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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Customer Showcase February 2025: Getting Down & Funky With Knowledge...bases
Hello Vanilla Community! The Kaplan Community Team here to showcase how we use Knowledge base in our community. This article is 100% team authored so if you're like, where's the Shannon snark? Always happy to provide that elsewhere. 😊 Here on the Kaplan Community, we determined a solid way to collect resources is utilizing…
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#TipTuesday - Loom Video Embeds and Security Settings
Time for another #TipTuesday! Rich Editor supports the embedding of iFrame content from external sources, both in your community's: Knowledge bases Layout Editor widgets Discussions and comments As a community manager or moderator, you're the heart of the community space, welcoming new members, answering questions, keeping…
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Monthly Active Users: which metric is correct
Good day Community, Regarding Monthly Active Users: Is Active Users or Contributors the correct number to use to measure MAU? Thank you, Toby
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How to remove the "rejected answer" label to a comment?
Hello there, I'm wondering if there is a way that we could change this label to something else or remove it completely. We really like the new feature where accepted answers get separated from the rest but for our type of our community we would prefer to use some other label for the "rejected answers" or only show the…
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CMD - if Admin/Moderator is flagged, different rules?
Hi hi! We're testing out the different features of CMD - when testing from a Member account, Reports + Escalations work as expected. However I had my moderator try some things from her Admin account: I have an automation rule set up to Escalate reports with a specific Reason. This did not Escalate when I test reported HER…
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Can't use Badgify with custom post pages?
Hi, We used to be able to use Badgify for automatic participation badges for comments in some of our posts. We used this a lot for our engagement content/gamification. When we switched to custom post pages, we're not seeing this option? Is this addon not available anymore for custom pages, just like Polls? We've been…
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#TipTuesday: Defining Your Community's "One Thing"
As a community manager, you’re often asked to have your members do a lot of different things. Q&A, feedback, ideation, testing, use cases, customer stories - the list goes on and on. Before you know it, your community home page ends up looking like Times Square complete with billboards and flashing lights. This quickly…
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March Success Community Roundup! 🌷 🐣 🌱
Hey Success Community! 👋 Spring is finally starting to appear, although so far with more rain than sunshine up here. Hopefully that means we're in store for lots of spring blooms very soon! Let's take a look at what's been happening in the Success Community this month: 🧭 Community Strategy 🎯 Customer Showcase March 2025:…
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How to handle users who want to delete their account?
Hi everyone, I wanted to hear if anyone is willing to share how you handle requests from users who want to delete their community accounts? The way we currently deal with this, is by having users comment in a specific discussion letting us know they want their account deleted. Then one of our community managers or…
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How the Rules of SEO Are Being Rewritten in 2025 [ 🎥 recording ]
Hey Vanilla friends 👋 In case you missed our recent SEO webinar, we've got the recording 🎥 posted below for you! Please let us know if you have any questions. Generative Engine Optimization? AIOs? The end of search as we know it? 2025 promises to be a long, strange year for SEO. If you’re wondering how to survive it,…
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What is your most impactful gamification strategy?
Gamification. Great when it works, but getting it there can be a bit of trial and error as you work to understand what motivates your audience. I am always amazed when one of my community members responds to a new rank or badge notification (and I almost always get someone!) I love using ranks to grant different…
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How do you support and/or reward your Super Users?
Creating a super user program can be one of the most impactful strategies your implement - a strong team of community members who are given a focus and utilized in a way that strengthens your community value. But how do you set them up for success? I know that in our Vanilla Success Community, we have an early adopter…
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Customer Showcase March 2025: Building a Strong Awardco Community with Our Client Steering Committee
Hello Vanilla Success Community! We're Brandon and Malachi (@borme & @Hopoatem ), and we manage the Awardco Community, a space for clients of our employee recognition software. We're excited to share how our Client Steering Committee has been a game-changer for our community's implementation and launch. We believe our…
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2025 Community Predictions and Trends: What’s Coming Next [ 🎥 recording ]
In case you missed this great session last week, check out the recording below… 2025 has arrived, but what will define the year ahead for community teams? Which trends will reshape how we build, engage, and grow communities, and what should you prioritize to stay ahead? In this panel, top community leaders will share their…
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#TipTuesday: YouTube embeds for your homepage
Everyone loves video content. It's eye catching, easy to consume and can help drive engagement in your community. We know it's easy to copy and paste a URL into a discussion today but how can you showcase your video content on your community homepage? 🧐 It's actually incredibly easy. Most companies and organizations have…
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What do you include in your Super User program?
Building a super user program is an amazing way to identify, utilize, and reward your highly engaged customers. Setting up a strong foundation to move it from an ad hoc program to one that makes a strong impact is an important step. We here at Higher Logic encourage our communities to take a look at the following 3 areas…
