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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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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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Group Functionality
Hello, We're looking to expand our usage of Groups and I have some questions before I move ahead. (Use case for context: we have a particular market of customers that's relatively small. They meet offline to participate in peer-to-peer learning sessions and provide support for each other on our product. They have expressed…
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SLAs and Best Practices for Responses
Hello Community, We are looking to establish SLAs for response times to unanswered questions and posts. We would appreciate any best practices and recommendations on how others are managing this, as well as methods for tracking posts that need replies. Thank you!
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Community Retention and Gamification
I am trying to find percentage of returning users to our community? Is there a way we can calculate that in HL Vanilla? We would like to introduce gamification program in an effort to increase engagement and improve retention. I was wondering how can we calculate the success of the program. I would appreciate any advice…
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Allow Users to Delete their own Activity?
Hiya! Is the ability to delete Activity Timeline items an all-or-nothing ability? As Admins and Mods we can remove timeline items (e.g. a profile picture upload). However one of our members requested that they do this for their own profile without needing to reach out. Is there a way we can allow members to delete their…
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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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What is the difference between "Questions solved" and "Answers accepted"?
Good day Community, I launched my new community last week and am creating analytics to understand my membership activity and community health. I am working with the Q&A tab in Analytics and seeking the definitions for the following please: Questions answered Questions solved Answers added Answers accepted Thank you for…
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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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Can you hide a category from the title bar (top navigation menu)?
I'm working on restricting certain categories for a specific role and I removed the permission for this role to access the category in question but it looks like it only removes it from the category widgets but not from the navigation bar. Is there a way to restrict view or an alternative?
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Showcase Your Ranks and Badges
Hey everyone! So gamification (done well) can be such a critical driver of the behaviors you want to see in your community. But what does that look like? I have shared the Gain Grow Retain Rank and Badge strategy in our Vanilla Community Manager Academy to get us started. What campaigns are you running? What clever rank…
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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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#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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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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January Success Community Roundup! ☃️ 🎆 ❄️
Hey Success Community! 👋 I hope everyone has made it through this longest and most brutal month of winter unscathed! We tried to escape the snow for a bit, but it followed us to the beach anyways… Let's take a look at what's been happening in the Success Community this month: 📊 Analytics Monthly Metrics: January 2025 📊 ⭐️…
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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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Documentation Updates - 01/30/25
Listed below are the latest updates to the Vanilla knowledge base: ✔️ TIP: Consider following this Category to be notified about future posts. New article: Sentiment Analysis Summary: New article describing how to use the Sentiment Analysis feature, which leverages AI to help you track and understand the language being…
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Are you using multiple Slack channels to inform internal teams?
Good day all, I am getting ready to go live with my new community and would like to ensure internal teams are notified of community content they need to address. For example, different channels for: Support Specific blog authors Moderators of specific categories I realize Vanilla sends email notifications, but we are a…
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#TipTuesday - Boost Community Engagement with Automation Rules
🚀 Boost Community Engagement with Automation Rules Save time and scale your community with Automation Rules in Higher Logic Vanilla! These “virtual assistants” handle repetitive tasks, freeing you up to focus on driving engagement. 🎯 How It Works: •Triggers: Events like unanswered questions or post inactivity. •Actions:…
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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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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…
