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⭐️ Summer Product Webinar Alert!
Happy Friday! 🙌 If you haven't heard, we're hosting our Summer Product Webinar, next Thursday at 2pm ET. @Val and other members of our Product team will be talking about several updates, including improvements to member management, user preferences and more, and how you can use them to engage customers, scale your…
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When's the last time you walked a mile in your users' shoes? 👠🩴👞
So often, we look at the community from our admin views, and forget to check out what our members are actually seeing — how does that shoe fit? Is it comfy and sturdy, ready to set your users off on the right foot 🤭 (I can't miss a good pun like that, come on!) for their community journey, or are there some awkward parts…
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What's the best way to manage an AMA in Vanilla?
Hi all - we are interested in planning an AMA event within our community which would only be open to a select group of super-users. I was wondering if anyone had some best practices on how best to manage this in Vanilla, as I can imagine the lack of threaded comments (as in Reddit) could quickly make things complicated.…
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Gifts for users
Hi! I'm looking into giving swag away to users for various acts of engagement. What online stores does everyone use that ship globally? Looking forward to your insights! Liselotte
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Known Issues initiative launched!
Hello, everybody! Today, I'm happy to announce the launch of our new HL Vanilla Known Issues initiative. In an effort to improve visibility into known issues that exist in the platform (i.e. bugs), we've begun publishing these to help you get the information you need quicker. To that end, we have two main resources that…
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HLV Connect Reminder - CM Bootcamp - June 6
Hey folks! There is no one-way path to the role of community manager. I started as a group member who posted a lot, moved up to moderator, found out that community management was a thing, and then did everything I could to get here. I’ve heard of teachers transitioning directly to community management. Still, others made…
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How have you leveraged gamification tools?
Hi everyone, Bit of a general question, but we're looking to go deeper with our gamification and we'd love to crowd source some ideas of how other community managers have leveraged the available tools and used gamification to reward/incentivize/recognize community users. We're definitely going to leverage the leader board,…
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Multiple Teams - only one Unresolved list
Oh hai! Question for you all: How do you work with multiple teams moderating your communities, owning different areas of the forum… but only having one Unresolved queue to manage all posts in every category? Do you: All use the same Unresolved list (ignoring each others categories in the list and skimming through to find…
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Khoros to Vanilla Migration Pointers
Hi! We've had a Vanilla instance for 3 years, and through an acquisition, now have a Khoros instance as well that we will be migrating into a combined Vanilla instance. If you migrated from Khoros, and have any pointers about your migration experience, I'm all ears. Bonus points if you have merged a legacy Khoros instance…
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Subcommunities, who has one?
I'd like to create a subcommunity. To research the idea, I'm looking for Vanilla users that have a subcommunity to see how it is all set up. Who has a community + subcommunity here that you wouldn't mind me snooping around in? Thanks! Liselotte