The Community Manager’s Weekly Planner
Rosemary O'Neill
Community Management
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Blog Post CommentWill do! I've basically been encouraging everyone I know interested in my site concept to share it like crazy. Having the support of friends / family with thriving online social networks helps a ton. And I realized that I should sign up for a FB page so I could entice regular FB users BACK to my site by posting news and blog post links there. Learning a lot and loving what you guys are doing! Where are you located? A couple people have asked and I can't figure it out. Morgan
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Blog Post Commentlot of major updates. very impressive. look forward to accessing the beta site and making an aggressive push to launch my Hoop.la site. I think forum owners are going to see a SIGNIFICANT increase in engagement across their site with the mobile friendly responsive design. That is HUGE! I suspect large community sites using UBB Forum will see an amazing increase in overall utilization. I look forward to being more engaged with Social Strata. This is a high quality update for sure. Congrats.
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Topic ReplyGreat idea, Bradley! I'll convert this to a tip so that it's properly classified Suggestions are generally intended for suggestions to us (Social Strata) about improvements the platform whereas tips for generally intended for community managers and customers using the platform. Thanks! Brian
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Blog Post CommentThanks! This is great. I'll let the team at ACEs Connection know. I've been curious for awhile about the ability to have a "title image" for the purpose of social media sharing but that doesn't show at the top of the post. Is this something that could be in the works? Thanks!
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Blog Post CommentHi @Alison Cebulla that's an interesting suggestion (which I don't think is currently in the hopper). Would you like to post that as a formal suggestion (click post > support topic) so others can weigh in? It would be great to hear more details...like are you talking about a way to inject an image during the flow of the social share button bar, or more an image that's just hidden/attached to the post in the background?
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Topic Reply🔥Hi, DBenoit. Thanks for giving us some more information about you and your goals in your profile . From your profile What's your community's big goal? The goal of this community is to foster the exchange of experiences, issues, information, and inspiration toward overcoming personal health challenges in the hunting and fishing communities. Have you found any places (physical or virtual) where like-minded people congregate? I'm picking up on Rosemary's thoughts about brick and mortar...
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Blog Post CommentThe Sticky at the top of the page feels too large, and you lose the context of the discussion. Suggestion. Instead of this: Continue to display the breadcrumbs like this. That is: Make the breadcrumbs sticky. ST
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Blog Post CommentI don't see these (bold above). Here's what I see. Here are my home page settings. ST
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Blog Post CommentIt has been a wild and fun ride that I still don't see an end in sight for both Social Strata and Mindraven. Great bunches of people to work and have fun with on both the hosted and downloadable divisions.
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Blog Post CommentReading further down I came across the comment "I think this is a pretty slick media marketing ploy to get the company name out there. Who heard of "Social Strata" before this article???" I had heard of them and I'm in England mate..
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Blog Post CommentMost people in the United States have not heard of most privately-owned small-businesses in the United States. Within the market, people know of Social Strata (or at least of Groupee and Infopop), but in general, average Americans do not. So that comment is rather weak. I've been watching the coverage from afar and while its fun to see my friends getting some attention, I haven't seen anyone that has covered the story really get it. It's really about saying "As long as your responsibilities...
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Blog Post Commentstoory and James: we have that definition over here, as well. But, this is an alternate definition that embodies the power of positive thinking.
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Topic ReplyHi ST, we may enable the surveys module...those are some good questions! I think we had done one previously that focused on which social network everyone used the most. Not sure if we'll open permissions for everyone to create surveys, but will definitely consider how we can use them!
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Blog Post CommentRoho? I think it’s time to connect! I have gorgeous roses still abloom and think fondly when I look at them. Do you think message mapping would be a good exercise for you and hubby for your business? Gratis, Girl. ? Jayme Jayme Soulati Soulati Media, Inc. 937.312.1363 or 937.232.2529 Get: Message Mapping: Why You Need It and How To Do It < http://soulati.com/ > Visit: http://Soulati.com < http://www.soulati.com/ > @Soulati Subscribe to The Heart Of Marketing Podcast on iTunes and...
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Blog Post CommentIs it possible to disable comments on a blog and/or close a comment thread that's begun on a blog post?
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Blog Post CommentHi @Aliza Rosen , yes you can do that. Just "edit" the blog post and disable comments (you should see that on the right side).
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Blog Post CommentThanks, @Rosemary ONeill . So it has to be done on each individual blog, right? There's no setting to disable it across all blogs?
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Blog Post CommentRight @Aliza Rosen the ability to comment on blogs is enabled/disabled per blog post right now. However, a workaround would be to use CSS to suppress the comment box, etc. on blogs. If you need help with that, just let me know!
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Blog Post CommentFirst, let's start with the irony - I just used my Facebook account to post this comment. Its true, FB can and does suck in a lot of ways. It also creates an opportunity for a lot of fake and meaningless interaction. However, it does serve at least one purpose for me in that it does allow me to keep 'light' contact with a lot of people who don't live in my area. Friends from my hometown and friends who have moved. It allows me to keep a sort of dialog open that allows us to easily pickup...
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Blog Post CommentI totally agree with each point of Rosemary. Limited knowledge of things can spoil us. It is better to read widely and try to find out the best you want from it. Our own analysis of things will help us to take a final decision. I'm planning to start a social website on a vCloud Connector server, could you please suggest the positives. Different writers put forward different opinion; some prefers to write only positive but some are totally opposite and only born to think negative. It creates...
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Blog Post CommentThanks for the invitation to Hoop.la. Definitely I will be checking all its features, but I am happy with the way Facebook is. I know discussion forums have an important place in the community management toolbox. But hear I think you are misguiding the readers. Is social strata hosted on a cloud computing strategy platform. Facebook is not doing anything to trouble its users. They are making some changes for the good. There is an app available for saving your discussions, no need to spend...
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Blog Post CommentI think Hoop.la is a brilliant solution to social networking and we're happy to have had the chance to test it out. Our review is here: Hoop.la Review
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Blog Post CommentThat was a generous offer in my email Rosemary, of "one of the coolest, most challenging jobs on earth".(In the email that was sent to everyone who has a watch on Social Strata I would guess). Not sure I can fit in the post of 'community manager' in as I am a full time grandparent these days and looking after my kids is far and away more preferable than a similar job on the UK Big Brother forum.......... Good luck though
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Blog Post CommentI declare that "Strata Socialite" is the new Infopopper term.
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Blog Post CommentOh Rosemary! What a wonderful blog. Very honest and heartfelt. I've never done a social network site... and increasingly I'm glad I don't get tied up in the white noise that people seem to have to deal with. I like a simple existence. I like to be in control of anything I say or post. This isn't a puff piece for LC as some may see it, but I'm comfortable here... and I know it's a social network site too!
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Blog Post CommentGreetings Steven: Everywhere and anywhere that we would have been using 6-8+ disk arrays for performance -- you can kiss the notion of a JBOD good bye. Our latest hardware addition, however, will be for some recent Enterprise customers. Greetings Xochiquetzal: Fantastic! I enjoy explaining technology, but haven't had much opportunity since leaving college; used to drive a white board after classes -- frequently, others would join for a sort of informal brown bag (but without the lunch). It...
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Blog Post CommentAfter living with the new logo for 12 days: It's very big (double the height of regular text). That makes it double the height of our copyright notice in our page footer. It doesn't explain the relationship between our community and Hoop.la. With the old "Powered by Social Strata" logo, it was easy to understand Social Strata's role. That's not clear with the new logo. We'd prefer to have some options for the colour of the logo (preferably grey). Our corporate branding directive is to go...
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Topic ReplyHi, Ted. I just installed UNICODE 9.0 fonts so I could use this symbol. And later I found your post above. I went to Font Awesome https://fontawesome.com/icons/power-off?style=solid and used the instructions that said to use this code < i class = " fas fa-power-off " > </ i > When I do that, I get and trying the same code here in this message the html editor in this windows strips out the code and it won't render. What am I doing wrong. Thanks, ST </body>
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Topic Reply❤️Let me see if I can get this to work in the wysiwyg editor: This is a test Which definitely works. I think that the issue you are having is that you are trying to use the fas class, which I'm not sure is available in Font Awesome 4.7 (the version we are currently using in Crowdstack). We have plans to upgrade this in an upcoming release. Next, since the WYSIWYG does not have Font Awesome icon support built directly into it you will need to use the "Source code" option on the far right to...
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Blog Post CommentGreat! Yeah, your use case is definitely a good example of the power of Recipes Once your recipe is set up with the rules you want, you can just sit back and watch it work. As the recipe is triggered (e.g. as users register or post), it will work automatically behind the scenes, performing the tasks you assigned it to do... Have a great weekend!
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Blog Post CommentCRAP, if that's the case then I don't think I set this up right b/c the trigger would add every new member to an un-moderated permission group. Here's what it looks like:
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Blog Post CommentMy team and I are extremely happy with the new platform, as are the members of our ACEsConnection community. Now that you've opened the floodgates, of course we'll be sending (and already have), a few ideas to continue down the path of making Hoop.la the best white-label social network out there!
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Blog Post Comment❤️Congratulations on this achievement! Compared to the other solutions described in the Moblized article, Hoop.la would also be the easiest to setup and get familiar with as it requires no invoice or, harshly, a beg for information to actually know what the product is able to do in your situation. Keep in mind though that Hoop.la is not only convenient for commercial use, but also for non-profit organizations and hobbyists for the same reasons: to lay focus on content and community building...
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Blog Post CommentWhere can I read details of this latest release?
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Blog Post CommentIt was kind of a mini release, and this was the biggest new enhancement...but we can post a bit more detail today!
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Blog Post CommentHere are a few more enhancements that were included in this release: We fixed the pagination bug for dialogs and clip sets. In the content management area of the control panel, we added some new search parameters. You can now find clips that have no clip set, or blogs that have no collection, and search for content that is either featured or not featured. There were other behind-the-scenes bug fixes and updates, but nothing else that affects the feature set.
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Blog Post CommentThe confusion surrounding social marketing is palpable. Whenever I speak with folks they believe it's only about posting to Facebook and Twitter. No one really knows how to engage customers. Now that I am blogging and writing social media posts for clients, it's a longer haul to earn traction. People and companies are so behind and had they engaged 3 years ago when everyone was excited to like, share, follow it would be easier today.
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Blog Post CommentDear 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)
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Blog Post CommentHi @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,...
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Blog Post CommentExcellent! Thank you. > On Mar 27, 2018, at 4:59 AM, Social Strata < [email protected] > wrote: > >
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Blog Post CommentHi Rosemary, will Social Strata be adding a feature for people to opt-in to emails? Our CRM is adding this feature so we can be compliant with GDPR.
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Blog Post CommentHi @Lynda ! We aren't currently planning on making any changes to the notification system in Hoop.la as part of the upcoming GDPR changes. I'm not aware of any specific requirements in GDPR related to email delivery or opt-in. Here's the list of the key changes being introduced by GDPR: https://www.eugdpr.org/key-changes.html Hope that helps!
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Topic ReplyI like it! Will this only be available to “card” enabled sites? Will we be able to change the type of feedback by changing the icons? Our conversations tend to be articles and resources, not chatty social comments.