Would love to see some new Hoop features or tweaks to existing ones that glean and highlight “recent replies and new topics being discussed” in an attractive way so as to support the important goal you have written about, Rosemary.

The block extracts don’t cut it. The Activity Stream tries but it’s too real-time and not descriptive. 

You don’t have to look far for what an enticing conversation boosting feature might look like. See Facebook. 

I have several ideas when you’re ready to brainstorm. 

Rosemary O'Neill posted:

Julie Usher posted:

How do you enable the recommendation engine and specifically how does it work?

Hi @Julie Usher, here's the announcement post about that feature, which gives some more detail: https://hey.crowdstack.com/b...ecommendation-engine.

If you want to pursue further, can you please put a support email in, so we can talk plan details, etc.?

Just left a message; I thought it was a free feature based on your post, so unless it's a nominal charge, I probably can't afford it. But please go ahead and quote me there.

Julie Usher posted:

How do you enable the recommendation engine and specifically how does it work?

Hi @Julie Usher, here's the announcement post about that feature, which gives some more detail: https://hey.crowdstack.com/b...ecommendation-engine.

If you want to pursue further, can you please put a support email in, so we can talk plan details, etc.?

How do you enable the recommendation engine and specifically how does it work?

Hi @Cissy! The social integrations are enabled at the top community level in the control panel: Basics > Social Networks. For each social network, you can choose Sign-in, Member Profile Links, and/or Social Feed, depending on what's available to us from that social network (every API is different).

If you choose member profile links or social feed as an option, your members will see a prompt banner at the top of their profile the next time they go that page, saying something like, "socialize your profile." It then allows them to authorize/authenticate any of those social networks to show up on their profile.

See the tiny Twitter and LinkedIn icons in the screenshot below? That's how it looks when a member authorizes the social network "profile links."

The "social feeds" show up in the Social tab on the profile (see the tabs in the screenshot above).

Since this is enabled at the community level, it will appear on profiles across your site, including when you view profiles at the Group level.

Hope that helps!

Dear Rosemary:
When you say, "Add social integrations to encourage external socializing. Enable as many of the social integrations as you can, so that your members can meet each other "off-community" as well. That may solidify relationships within the community," what do you mean? Linking Twitter and showing it on the site or what? Can that be done in communities and groups, or only on the main home site? Please advise (with links, for how, if possible).

Thanks.

Cissy

(ACEsConnection)