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I’ve chatted with a few customers about this lately — while you can always get fancy with Power BI or use our Salesforce activity sync feature, sometimes a good old Excel export does the trick 😅 Here’s how you can quickly see activity by company domain using just the User Export and some simple formulas. Step 1: Export…

Online Community Managers are gathering September 24 in San Francisco to mingle and learn. The topic of the talk will be "Navigating Community Platform Migration". Even better than the content will be the connections with interesting people that you make. Please RSVP and join us!

When I joined Glean in January, the Glean community was entirely housed within Slack. We had just purchased a new community tool, Higher Logic Vanilla but had not begun the implementation process. Our goal? Launch our customer community, the Gleaniverse, at our first-ever user conference, Glean:GO, on May 20th. That meant…

Hello! I'd love some advice from others in the SaaS industry. Have any of you created a discussion category in your community for internal product teams to facilitate beta testing with community members? Here is my current thought process: Create a discussion category. Add a role that can access that category. Give product…

We want to embed G2 into our Vanilla community so users can complete a review while visiting the site. Has anyone had success creating custom code to allow this?

Tip Tuesday: Start Small, Grow Strong One of the biggest mistakes people make with communities is trying to go too big, too fast. It can feel exciting to want a big splash, but the truth is… the strongest communities usually start small. A handful of people who are passionate and willing to engage consistently can set the…

We use Vanilla for Community. I have a question regarding the analytics. I was reading the https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/1502-analytics-terminology Here it is mentioned Discussions, Questions, Polls, Ideas, or Events are types of posts. Comments and Answers are also types of posts but are considered…

While managing your community, you are likely to encounter situations where extra email addresses are helpful. For example: Sign-up flows: Registering as a new member multiple times to make sure onboarding works smoothly. Event registration: Ensure emails, notifications, and automations trigger as intended for different…

Hey Success Community! 👋 I hope everyone has enjoyed these last few weeks of summer, possibly by eating way too much ice cream like me… Let's take a look at what's been happening in the Success Community this month: 🧭 Community Strategy 🎯 Can your content be summarized away? Search Is Shifting. Are You Seeing the Drop Too?…

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…