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Hey Vanilla friends 👋 Happy April - or if your family is anything like mine, happy practical joke month! 📚 Fun Story: A couple of years ago my husband took a free online coding class at Harvard. His brothers spent months breaking into our house and hiding Harvard themed swag around for us to later stumble across (mugs,…
Groups have always played an important role in community building - creating dedicated spaces for specific audiences, topics, or levels of access. But with recent platform enhancements, Groups can now do much more than simply organize members. They can help you design more intentional, engaging community experiences.…
The Problem with Scattered Moderator Tools Your moderators are busy people. When something needs attention, they shouldn't have to hunt through the dashboard, remember URLs, or ask you where to find things. A dedicated moderator hub — a single page visible only to your mod team — gives them a home base where they can…
Good day Community - I have a short video posted on my community Home page that provides a tour to help visitors get the most out of the community. Is it possible to gather metrics on how many have clicked on the video / widget over a period of time? I would like to learn about the widget's popularity and if I can make…
Which widget is used for this carousel below in the success community? I would like to create similar widget for our community where we can feature content from different sites.
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…
Hey everyone! 🙋♀️ Happy Wednesday! You might notice the homepage and discussions page are suddenly looking a little extra spiffy! 🎨 That's because we've added two new widgets - Featured Collections and a Leaderboard. I'm incredibly excited about using Vanilla's new Featured Collections – it's a great way to showcase…
Join our AI Study Group for Community Managers. At each session we'll discuss what group members are experimenting with and learning, how we're using AI in our communities, and help one another problem solve. The group meets monthly, and is open to any community professionals interested in the topic of AI. Hosted by our…
Hey Vanilla friends 👋 Hopefully you're all finding some time for fun in the sun. If you need some inspiration, how about a game of beach football? Let's take a look at what's been happening in the Success Community this month: 🍦 Vanilla Updates Salesforce Integration Setup Update Introducing: Theme Variable Search Exciting…
Community Managers can use Vanilla’s API for everyday tasks too, and you can test requests directly from your Dashboard without writing any code. Head to Settings → API Integrations → API v2, choose an endpoint, and use Try It to see the results right in your community. This can be useful when you need to: Look up…
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