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#TipTuesday: Create Momentum with Recurring Community Events
One of the easiest ways to boost engagement in your community? Give members something to look forward to. Recurring events create rhythm, build habits, and give members a reason to come back regularly. Here’s how to make them work: 1️⃣ Start Simple and Stay Consistent Pick one format and stick with it. Examples: Feature…
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February Success Community Roundup! 🏂 🥌 ⛷️
Hey Vanilla friends! Happy February - hopefully you're all feeling motivated by some of the incredible feats from the Winter Olympics and ready to get out and try something new! ☝️ how I feel anytime I'm convinced to go skiing, anyone else? Let's take a look at what's been happening in the Success Community this month: 🍦…
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#TipTuesday: Game of Logins - Building Community Behind and Beyond the Wall
When you play the Game of Logins, you either win… or you're like the rest of us and wonder if your community is missing out on great visibility and traffic by keeping everything behind the login wall because you're worried about direwolves, giants, and White Walkers reeking havoc. Many people look at the privacy of their…
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🔎 What Are Your Members Actually Searching For?
Hey friends 👋 Quick question for you: When was the last time you looked at your Search data? Search is one of the most honest signals in your community. It tells you — in your members’ own words — what they’re trying to find. Not what you think they need. Not what you’ve highlighted on the homepage. Not what your roadmap…
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Help Needed with Assigning Posts to Other Users
Hi everyone, I'm currently trying to figure out how to assign posts to other users so they can provide answers. I'm aware that certain permissions and roles are required for this, but I'm not sure how to properly implement it on our platform. If anyone has experience with assigning posts or can share best practices on how…
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📣 Join us in San Francisco to talk about metrics that matter
Hey Community Builders 👋 Ready to finally make metrics your superpower? Join us in San Francisco for our next Community Manager Connect, where Caty Kobe Burt will share how she approaches metrics — and more importantly, how she’s used them to quantify her teams’ impact and unlock further investment. If you’ve ever…
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January Success Community Roundup! 🥶 ❄️ 🏂
Hey Success Community! 👋 We've made it through the first month of winter, and it has not been an easy one. We all deserve a special treat. Let's take a look at what's been happening in the Success Community this month: 🍦 Vanilla Updates 🎉 Happy Community Manager Appreciation Day! 🎉 ⭐️ #TipTuesday #TipTuesday: Creating…
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Can you download all comments/usernames/profile fields into csv?
Hi everyone, I've been asked by our product design team if there's a way to download all comments from a community post, including user names and company in an excel file or csv? For context, we post a lot of feedback opportunities and get lots of feedback so the team want a way of easily categorising the feedback based on…
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Question: Can you customize the main Events Category page on community?
Question: Is it possible to customize the main Events Category page? Examples: Can you edit the appearance/add widgets/look and feel of how events appear? Can you combine all Community and Group events with the option to filter? Thanks!
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#TipTuesday: Creating meaningful workflows with Vanilla's Automation Rules
Happy #TipTuesday Everyone, Today I am going to talk about setting up meaningful workflows using Vanilla's automation rules that should help keep your community rolling like a well oiled machine. First, let's look at Vanilla's automation rules. We have triggers for both user management and content management but will focus…