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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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Documentation Updates - 10/10/24
Listed below are the latest updates to the Vanilla knowledge base: ✔️ TIP: Consider following this Category to be notified about future posts. New article: Escalation-based Automation Rules Summary: New article providing an overview of the new Escalation-based Automation Rules.…
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How are you doing with your community engagement?
Engagement is the holy grail of community. However, there is a lot to it. Defining what it means for your specific community, and then understanding how to encourage those behaviors are both critical and foundational components. What are some of the easier ways to encourage engagement? What areas tend to be more difficult?…
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How to Drive People to your Community 🏎️
Hey Vanilla friends! Are you doing everything you can to drive people over to your community? Check out these ten quick tips to make sure you're not missing anything!
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Community-Driven Customer Support [ 🎥 recording ]
Support communities have come a long way. What started as basic forums has now become an integral part of customer engagement strategies. In this webinar, we’ll cover how capabilities like peer-to-peer interactions, integrated knowledge bases, and Q&A have reshaped the support experience. You’ll gain a clear understanding…
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Any updates on the sharing of posts and comments?
I'm wondering if there has been any updates on this. I looked at the roadmap and it says it was released and it's no longer in beta but I don't see it available in staging yet.
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How are you defining active members? Is a dashboard avialable
Good morning Community, I am viewing this doc: and the definition of Active Users: Number of users that logged in to the community. My question: is there another metric or measurement that goes deeper than log-in and shows levels of activity per time period? For example: Is viewing content Is creating content: started a…
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Interesting AI in community example
Some of you may know because I've posted before, but my company's online community is for family caregivers. Yesterday, I signed up for a new family caregiver online community called The Sandwich Club ("sandwich generation" refers to caregivers who are taking care of both a parent and a child). I'm not sure what community…
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[AMA] Ask a Community/AI Expert 👉 What do you want to know about using AI in community management?
We’re gearing up for a webinar at the end of October on using AI to help manage your community, and we want your input. Our speaker will be doing live demos with GPT, and we’d love to tailor the session based on what you’re most curious about. » What AI-related topics or challenges would you like to dive into? Let us know…
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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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Documentation Updates - 10/01/24
Listed below is the latest update to the Vanilla knowledge base: ✔️ TIP: Consider following this Category to be notified about future posts. New article: Event Notifications Summary: New article describing each of the new event notifications, including how they are triggered and how to manage your personal notification…
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September Success Community Roundup! 🍎 ✏️ 📓
Hey Success Community! 👋 And just like that, summer is over and school is back in session… Let's take a look at what's been happening in the Success Community this month: 💫 Product Highlights 🚨 New Feature Alert: Event Notifications! 📅 Feature Showcase: Badges 🏵️ HL Vanilla Q4 Roadmap Changes 🧭 Community Strategy 🎯 What do…
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#TipTuesday: What metrics help define a healthy community?
As a senior customer success manager at HL Vanilla, I get this particular question a lot during my many conversations. What are some key community health metrics that I should be monitoring? Although I feel that there can be specific key health metrics based on your specific community use case, there are a variety of…
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What do you include in your engagement strategy plan?
"Hope is not a strategy" - Rick Page This quote is often on my mind when it comes to community. If you have been community managing for any length of time, you know that engagement doesn't just happen because you have a community platform set up (yes, even with that AMAZING layout you have created!) Instead, you have to…
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#TipTuesday Give a nudge to users who are still using the custom profile avatar.
Here's an idea to add a personal touch to your community. I've created a custom HTML Widget to encourage users to complete their profiles with a snazzy avatar. Having custom photos/avatars help to bring out the personality of your community and encourage engagement. It's why give badges to users who upload their own…
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How to Turn Happy Customers into Your Biggest Advocates [ 🎥 recording ]
Tired of chasing customers for testimonials and scrambling for last-minute references? It’s time to rethink your approach to customer advocacy. Check out our webinar with SlapFive and Higher Logic Vanilla, where you’ll learn to build a customer advocacy program that naturally inspires your most satisfied customers to…
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Where are you in creating an engagement strategy that makes an impact?
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Customer Showcase September 2024: Liselotte from WithSecure
In February 2023, I embarked on a new journey by adopting the WithSecure Community, despite having no prior experience in Community Management. My background includes 12 years in customer support, which provided a solid foundation for this new role. The community had recently demerged from F-Secure Community (hi @Firmy !)…
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#TIp Tuesday - Category as a Link
Hey all! One of Vanilla's capabilities allows you to use categories as a link. You may be asking yourself "how does that help me with anything?" Well, it turns out, it is a handy feature for certain use cases… For example: is there a specific set of KBs you want a particular persona to reference? You can create a category…
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Documentation Updates - 09/17/24
Listed below is the latest update to the Vanilla knowledge base: ✔️ TIP: Consider following this Category to be notified about future posts. New article: HubSpot Integration Summary: New article that describes how to set up the integration. The process requires steps be completed in Vanilla and in HubSpot.…
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How to get more deflection data
Hi, I'm struggling with my deflection data, the numbers as so low to get any decent ballpark figure. Discussions: how to encourage users to mark an answer as accepted? I'm thinking of PMing each user a few days after a discussion has been answered to encourage them to mark it as accepted, but this is a lot of manual work.…
