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Are you using multiple Slack channels to inform internal teams?
Good day all, I am getting ready to go live with my new community and would like to ensure internal teams are notified of community content they need to address. For example, different channels for: Support Specific blog authors Moderators of specific categories I realize Vanilla sends email notifications, but we are a…
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Focused Analytics
Hey all! So, we know that analytics are a crucial part of community management, but it can be an area that many community managers struggle with. I know that I have a standard set of analytics I look at weekly, monthly, and yearly: Total Members - how is growth doing? Active Members - how many members are logging in and…
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Customer Steering Committee
Who partners with your customers and specifically organizes them into a "committee" of sorts to help direct and represent the voice of your larger community? How do you organize this group? What responsibilities do you expect from them? How do you partner to customize the community experience for the community at large?
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Share Your Community Onboarding Stories!
Onboarding is one of those foundational components of great adoption. It is the purposeful introduction of new (and existing!) members to opportunities and information that can be a lifelong journey. What are some tactics you are using in your onboarding strategy? Are there any strategies you are struggling to implement?…
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What do you include in your engagement strategy plan?
"Hope is not a strategy" - Rick Page This quote is often on my mind when it comes to community. If you have been community managing for any length of time, you know that engagement doesn't just happen because you have a community platform set up (yes, even with that AMAZING layout you have created!) Instead, you have to…
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How do you showcase content?
Content is one of the key drivers for return visits to customer communities, but if you have the world's best content and your customers cannot find it easily, it becomes a lot of good stuff without impact. Having your site built in a way that allows your customers to find what they are looking for (and even some they…
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What to do with deactivated users?
Hi community, I'm looking for tips on how to manage user profiles and their content once they have to be deleted. Due to all those acronyms related to privacy regulations around the world, we are required to remove former customers and their data from our database after a while. That same process should extend to the…
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Community Manager Bible
Hello friends, I am a Community Manager NOVICE! I may have some natural talents that may lend themselves to being a successful Community Manager, but I'm not sure my foundation is as sure as I'd like. Are there any resources floating around out there that contain general best-in-class practices for a community manager?…
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AI Chatbot on Community
One of my awesome teams has developed a AI Chatbot for their alumni and students to use. They would love to see it embedded in the Community to entice their students & alum to use it. Of course, we love that here on the Kaplan Community team so wanted to see if anyone implemented something similar? It's being built similar…
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Is anyone combining Chat + Forum? What does your workflow look like?
We switched from chat (Slack) to forum (Vanilla) about a year ago and most members are quite happy about it (mainly about the better organization, search and available history). And although no one would want to switch back, we also hear that the move to the forum made some members feel more disconnected from the rest of…
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Building a Complete Customer Community [ 🎥 recording ]
Whether you're in sales, marketing, customer success, or a community leader yourself, this session is your gateway to understanding how a well-crafted community can significantly impact every department in your organization, driving measurable business value with ease. We're thrilled to have Debora Seys and Diane Yuen, the…
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#TipTuesday: When less is more
So much of what we traditionally consider community growth is synonymous with “more”: More users More content More views More traffic But there may come a time in your community's maturity when taking a less is more approach can actually be a conducive ideology. We know from the technology adoption curve(1) that most users…
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Building ROI for customer communities [ 🎥 recording ]
Ever feel like you're speaking a different language when pitching the value of customer communities to your exec team? 🗣️ We've been there - and so have many of our customers. That's why we hosted a no-fluff webinar that’s all about equipping you with the hard-hitting facts, figures, and frameworks that resonate at the…
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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!)
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Are you new to managing a Vanilla Community?
Hey there newbie! So you’ve inherited a HL Vanilla Community and don’t know where to start? We know this process can be overwhelming so we wanted to help start you out on the right path. The most important way to set yourself up for success is to join our Success Community, which you’ve already done (since you’re reading…
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HL Vanilla Connect: Community Safety and Mental Health with Kyle Moncelle!
Join @kmon (aka Kyle Moncelle, Senior Community Manager at Niantic) and I for a discussion around community safety and mental health! He'll be covering mental health guidelines, best practices to keep your community & community managers safe and offer an opportunity for group discussion around best practices here. Hope to…
