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Why Office Hours and AMAs are gold 🍯 🌈
Answering questions and fostering genuine connections and trust between members are often key community goals. This is precisely where "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) sessions and "Office Hours" prove invaluable, transforming impersonal digital spaces into vibrant hubs of humans. Easy to produce A key advantage of AMAs and Office…
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How are you helping your customers move into peer leader status?
We all know that communities are primarily made up of Information Consumers (I prefer this to lurkers…creepy!! 🧟) — this isn't a surprise. But have you thought about the fact that every Super User in our community likely started out here? So what made 1 person begin engaging and so many others stay in this unengaged state?…
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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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How do you support and/or reward your Super Users?
Creating a super user program can be one of the most impactful strategies your implement - a strong team of community members who are given a focus and utilized in a way that strengthens your community value. But how do you set them up for success? I know that in our Vanilla Success Community, we have an early adopter…
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Community Retention and Gamification
I am trying to find percentage of returning users to our community? Is there a way we can calculate that in HL Vanilla? We would like to introduce gamification program in an effort to increase engagement and improve retention. I was wondering how can we calculate the success of the program. I would appreciate any advice…
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Showcase Your Ranks and Badges
Hey everyone! So gamification (done well) can be such a critical driver of the behaviors you want to see in your community. But what does that look like? I have shared the Gain Grow Retain Rank and Badge strategy in our Vanilla Community Manager Academy to get us started. What campaigns are you running? What clever rank…