Best Practices

How do you manage interval vs external announcements in your community?
I'm curious to hear how you all manage announcements that are specific to your users vs announcements that are open to the public? Here is our use case: We have one category that we've used mainly for announcements. Members are not able to post there except our staff, mods, and admins. Now that we are working towards…
What part of your community are you most focused on right now?
At Higher Logic, we just introduced the COMPASE Framework—a model to help community teams align strategy with impact across seven functions: Connection 🤝 Operations 🛠 Marketing 📣 Product Feedback 💬 Acquisition 📈 Strategy & Retention 📊 Education 📚 🔍 Which of these are you currently prioritizing—and why? Are you doubling…

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