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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…
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Real Talk about Gamification
In my years in community work, I have come across a lot of differences of opinion when it comes to gamification. I tend to look at it as a way to help motivate and reward the behaviors I want to see from my audience, but to many it can feel too artificial or too frivilous. Where do you land in the gamification spectrum? Do…
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Is there a way to have user's fill out required profile fields after registration?
Hello! Our community has gone through a couple of iterations of required profile fields for our users, for tracking purposes. The problem is that when you add a new required profile field, users aren't notified about it. Is there a way to have a prompt show up letting the user know they must fill out the required profile…
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December Success Community Roundup! 🎄 🕎 🎅🏼 🕯️ 🎆
Hey Success Community! 👋 I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season with friends and family, and some time to relax! We're a few days late due to our own time away from work, but let's take a look at some of the highlights from the last month of 2024: 📊 Analytics Analytics Hackathon 2024! 💻 Custom Table Help -…