Best Practices

Starting a Community / Community Launch Best Practices
Hello everyone! I'm currently in the pilot phase of my community, with plans of publicly launching in early June. 😁 Could you please help answer a few questions and provide any best practices you have regarding having a successful community launch? When marketing your community launch, did you host an event? How did you…
Member Journey - lots of member types
Hello Vanilla Friends! First time posting, long time in the community world. Currently building with @pbradley (hoping this is the right Paul, lol) at Kaplan and something interesting around this community is that is serves many different types of members. As I am doing a site audit, it's become apparent we will need to do…
#TipTuesday: Creating a Valuable Office Hours Experience
Today’s Tip Tuesday is all about creating value for your audience through Office Hours. Office Hours are a great way to bring your members together to: Network with each other Learn product or industry best practices Share wins or roadblocks with peers Done well, these can become a valuable addition to your event content…
We're spilling our secrets for reviving online communities and driving engagement
Join us tomorrow for a webinar with ChurnZero at 2pm ET! @Shauna will share: Simple ways to get your team engaged in the community How to align and rally the business behind the community Tactical strategies on how to revive the community (Here's the first secret, community building is a marathon, not a sprint!)
Revamping Your Community Strategy - Live Event!
Building and maintaining a community is hard - we get it! So that's why we wanted to share our learnings from reviving our own community. The amazing @Shauna is teaming up with ChurnZero on Wednesday, September 20 to discuss our community journey and best practices for driving engagement. Register here!
What's the best way to manage an AMA in Vanilla?
Hi all - we are interested in planning an AMA event within our community which would only be open to a select group of super-users. I was wondering if anyone had some best practices on how best to manage this in Vanilla, as I can imagine the lack of threaded comments (as in Reddit) could quickly make things complicated.…

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Community by Design: The Essential Foundation Framework
Community planning doesn’t start at launch. It starts the moment you decide why you’re building one, and what you want it to do for your customers. In this webinar, we’ll walk through the full arc of community building, from early decisions about structure and investment to the day-to-day work of sustaining engagement.…
HLV Connect: Open Session
⭐️ Got something cool to share? Have a victory in your community and want to show off your accomplishments with fellow community builders? 🙋 Got questions? Bring your community, tactical and random questions and get answers from peers and Vanilla experts! 🗓 Join our very own @KevinM and @Erik Veenhuizen, and a group of…
HLV Connect: Security Settings & Managing Spam on your Community
Keeping your community secure and spam-free is essential for maintaining trust, engagement, and a great user experience. Join us for an interactive session where we'll dive into the tools and best practices you can use to safeguard your community. Whether you're just getting started or looking to fine-tune your setup, this…
HLV Connect: Open Session
⭐️ Got something cool to share? Have a victory in your community and want to show off your accomplishments with fellow community builders? 🙋 Got questions? Bring your community, tactical and random questions and get answers from peers and Vanilla experts! 🗓 Join our very own @AndrewD and @BradH, and a group of your peers…

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