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Tip Tuesday: Struggling to get replies? Try framing your questions like this...
Hey Vanilla Community, It’s Tip Tuesday, and today’s tip comes from my perspective as a content marketer, pulling from some copywriting techniques. Let’s talk about how to drive better engagement from your community posts. Whether you’re prompting a conversation or genuinely looking for advice, try opening with a specific…
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#TipTuesday: Default Category Following & Notification Preferences
Last year Vanilla released Default Category Following and Default Notification Preferences. Let’s review why you should enable both features. Setting Default Category Following for new members in your community can help streamline user engagements and encourage participation. By doing so, users are automatically subscribed…
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#TipTuesday Give a nudge to users who are still using the custom profile avatar.
Here's an idea to add a personal touch to your community. I've created a custom HTML Widget to encourage users to complete their profiles with a snazzy avatar. Having custom photos/avatars help to bring out the personality of your community and encourage engagement. It's why give badges to users who upload their own…
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#TipTuesday: What metrics help define a healthy community?
As a senior customer success manager at HL Vanilla, I get this particular question a lot during my many conversations. What are some key community health metrics that I should be monitoring? Although I feel that there can be specific key health metrics based on your specific community use case, there are a variety of…
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#TIp Tuesday - Category as a Link
Hey all! One of Vanilla's capabilities allows you to use categories as a link. You may be asking yourself "how does that help me with anything?" Well, it turns out, it is a handy feature for certain use cases… For example: is there a specific set of KBs you want a particular persona to reference? You can create a category…
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#TipTuesday: How to cross-promote / externally promote your community
Promoting an online community effectively requires a strategic approach to reach new audiences and engage existing members. Some key strategies to cross-promote and externally promote your online community are as follows. Leverage Social Media Platforms Social media is a powerful tool for promoting online communities.…
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#TipTuesday: Gauging Content Success & Maximizing Your Content Strategy with Monday.com
Hot on the heels of our Content Calendar Webinar, we got some great follow up questions from @dpuchacz regarding how they can use Monday.com better to organize and review their content calendar. I thought this would be great information to share with everyone, so it's inspired this week's #TipTuesday post! Read on below……
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#TipTuesday - User Groups - When to Segment
What is User Segmentation Segmentation is basically sorting people in a community into groups based on certain criteria that matter to your community. These criteria could be things like title/role, product, industry, or specialization in a particular area. Segmentation, using Groups, can be crucial in online community to…
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#TipTuesday: Don’t sleep on the Q&A in Vanilla’s thought leadership webinars
Hey Vanilla community - I want to draw your attention to a valuable part of our monthly thought leadership webinars that you might be overlooking: the Q&A. Every month, we host thought leaders who dive into various community management topics. These discussions go beyond our product and provide real insights you can apply…
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#TipTuesday: Image Moderation with A.I
Hey gang! It's Tuesday somewhere. I'm going to deviate a little bit from the usual quick tips for using Vanilla and instead jump into something a little more complicated (and long-winded). Lets get an A.I to moderate images on our communities! My goal here will be to create a way to quickly flag posts that have images…
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#TipTuesday: Community Value Cycle
“If we build it they will come!” How often do we hear this refrain as community leaders and assume that our members will feverishly start posting to our forum? All too often and, in my opinion, this is a highly unrealistic expectation. While creating a community environment- digital or otherwise- for people is the first…
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#TipTuesday: Simplifying (Hacking) Your Graphic Storage
One of the things that I needed for my Gain Grow Retain community was an easier way to add images and graphics, especially when it came to ads on the landing page. Being able to utilize categories along with the html widget allowed me to simply paste them into place was a huge time-saver as my sponsor ads were updated…
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How to Format Code
In the 2024.006 release, the Rich 2 Editor was enabled by default for new sites. W00T! There are several ways to format posts. I’ll focus on formatting code blocks. This is what a code block looks like when you’re ready to enter your text. You can use it to change the appearance of your text when you want to highlight…
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#TipTuesday: Encourage your users to protect their privacy! 🔐
Hey there Vanilla friends! I had a customer question come up recently that I thought would make for a great conversation topic on our community. This particular customer was concerned about being responsible for any private information their members may post on their community (which was a health support forum). Health…
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#TipTuesday: Curating widgets for different Roles or Ranks in your community
Happy Tuesday everyone! It's starting to look like Spring🌷🌱 here in Northern Ontario, and I'm feeling the spring cleaning vibes at home and at work -- a new initiative to spruce up the community this spring is #TipTuesday -- we'll be posting a cool new tip around community management, the Vanilla product, and everything in…
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#TipTuesday: Hacking (Vanilla) Support
Reaching out for technical support when you need help understanding something or if you think you've encountered a bug is the worst. It's time consuming and frustrating to suddenly become blocked until you get assistance. Or you might be like me: assuming that you're doing something wrong and are too embarrassed to ask for…
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#TipTuesday Manage group leaders and owners via the API
Are you currently managing your group leaders by inviting them to be a member of the group, waiting for them to accept the invitation, and then manually promoting them to be a leader? Have you ever had to submit a ticket to Support to change the owner of a group? This #TipTuesday will help you streamline the process for…
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#TipTuesday: Show off your roles with the Role Titles addon
Hey, Success Community! Another Tip Tuesday coming your way, this time from your friendly Vanilla Support team. Have you ever wanted to display a user's role(s) next to their username on posts? Well, good news! Roles Titles is one of our more popular addons and it accomplishes just that. I'm here today to explain how that…
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#TipTuesday: Encouraging Quality Engagement
We pose and respond to queries in the belief that the magic of a conversation will produce a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. Quality engagement from our members is the holy grail of community managers. Everything stems from that – ROI, sales, brand loyalty, ticket reduction, etc. When members are largely…
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#TipTuesday : Quick Rank Label Styling for Non-Developers
Hello Success community, Who's ready for another #TipTuesday? As you may know, Ranks are a tool that allow you to either grant or restrict specific community privileges to your users based on their activity on the site. (Need a refresher on Ranks? Check out this article for more info.) Each Ranks has a label that will…
