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Content Calendars
Having a goal without a plan decreases your chances of meeting that goal. A content calendar is a tool that helps build: Consistency Diversity in post authors Rituals A strong content topic and type library If you are leveraging a content calendar, what is the most critical part of it for you? If you are not, what is…
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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…
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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…
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#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…
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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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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!
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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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Product suggestion category. Good or Bad?
📢Heyo! We are on the fence about adding a section to allow users to suggest product updates. Has anyone done this? If so, how has it worked out? Our hesitation is that we don't want folks only coming to the Community to suggest product features. Is this something you have had a problem with? Any insight would be super…
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Guide the product team into supporting your community
A brand community is a special kind of community. All brand communities... aspire to serve both (1) members and (2) at least one organizational (brand) goal. Carrie Melissa Jones and Charles Vogl Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system, once said, "a program is only as useful as its users find it…."…
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Zoom meeting recordings no longer valid
Hey there, we recently had a staff member who was big in the community leave. With their departure, all the zoom links that were housed on Zoom's cloud are gone - note to self, download your meetings to the computer! At any rate, there are 100s of posts that will either need to be edited or deleted. I'm curious if anyone…
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Gating the entire community
Does anyone gate their entire community? i.e. you can't see any community content unless you're signed in? Is there any reason NOT to do this?
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Can you show just the homepage and gate everything else?
I'm wondering if I can configure permissions so that guests, unconfirmed and applicants can see the homepage of our community, but if they click anything they are prompted to sign in/register
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What are your community KPIs?
Howdy folks - Wondering what some of your community KPIs are? Looking for examples to compare with ours and to get new ideas!
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Featured collections widget in categories
Can you add the featured collections widget to a category page? We have a category in our community that houses templates and I'd like to feature 3 collections of the specific template discussions at the top of the page. Below is a very (very) crude mock-up of what I'd like to do. This is on the homepage of our staging…
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Product ideas/feature requests in community 🧐
Hi all, I'm looking into adding a product idea section to our community. We're using our community as part of our scaled CS motion. So basically this would give customers in that segment a way to surface feature requests since the traditional way would be directly to a CSM. I'm curious how other teams manage these…
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What are your best practices about email for community managers?
We were having a conversation around the office, and a great topic came up about what email address to use for community platform emails. Did you know "no-reply" as an email address, can impact the deliverability of these messages? Check out these best practices from SendGrid What other tips do you have?
