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New look!
As you might have noticed, we’ve added a new look and feel to the HL Vanilla Community using our awesome Foundation theming engine coupled with the new layout editor! Got questions or comments on the new look? Curious about how we set anything up? I’d love to hear about it! 🤓 One aspect of the new theme that tenured…
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Community Roadmap ideas
Hey everyone! I'm a new community manager and am working on the roadmap. We are looking to launch later this fall and I am wondering if there are any other community managers that have an outline of their road map they could share with me. My goal is to have a roadmap and 12 month content plan to share with our internal…
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Does anyone have any best practices on how to ask a good question and what to put in the body?
I want to provide our audience with a short tutorial to help them get quicker/better responses in our Q+A community. I'm looking for any best practices you've seen work on how to write/phrase questions appropriately and what type of information is valuable to consider in the body
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Changing this category to public!
Hey Friends, We have been busy behind the scenes, with some very important updates coming to our little home here for you in the next couple of weeks. We wanted to also let you know that one of the changes coming is that this category - "Managing Communities" will become public. What does that mean for you? It means we…
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Dealing with Conflict
Have you ever had a conflict within the community rise to the point of making you blood boil and you were so enraged you could not see? Thankfully it doesn't happen often, or I hope it doesn't. Recently I had this experience in a community I am part of, and the conflict was quite irrational. I'd love to hear from you what…
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I'm hiring an intern!
Hi everyone! Do you know a college student who is interested in online community management and philanthropy? I'm hiring a Community Intern to support growth and engagement in Foundant Technologies' community for philanthropy: Compass. This is a paid internship (minimum 15 hours per week) and remote is okay! Foundant is a…
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How do you manage internal users within your community
Hi Vanilla Success Community! I have a question - we have a private community for our customers that is essentially managed by a team of one (me). We're hoping to start involving more internal stakeholders in the community (such as reps from CS, product, support etc.) but we're very conscious of maintaining a particular…
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Seeking Creative Reactions!
Hello! Wondering what reactions you all employ in your communities. We use the Vanilla OOTB (out of the box) reactions, but only the positive ones: like, awesome, LOL, vote up, etc. I often want to use the WTF reaction, but it's not appropriate in our community. ☺️ Do you have any custom reactions? What are they and are…
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Commsor, Orbit, Commonground - Community Data management systems
Hey there! We are looking at adding a community data management system to our tech stack. We've been chatting with a few, but I was wondering if anyone is currently using Commsor or Orbit and wouldn't mind having a chat about your experience with them? Mostly, I am trying to understand expectations of the products, why you…
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Sharing a Developer for Customization
We've used this gentlemen a few times to do some interesting javascript that filters out emails in posts, adds a helpful popup to the forums, etc. He's in Ukraine and his rate is VERY reasonable. If you're a big corp and can't do international contracts with individuals, he's also on Upwork which should allow you to get…