10 Concerts: How to Create a Community Trending Topic
Rosemary O'Neill
Community Management
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Tips❤️Want to add breadcrumbs to the mobile view for your site? We've come up with some custom CSS (thanks, @Brian Lenz!) that you can use to show the "closest" two levels of the forum breadcrumbs on mobile devices. You would insert this CSS in the the Custom CSS field in your Display Settings: .breadcrumbs-wrapper.hide-for-small-only { display: inherit !important; } @media only screen and (max-width: 40.0625em) { .h-page-for-FORUM nav.breadcrumbs li.breadcrumb { display: none; }...
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TipsIt's been a while since I shared a "fun with Recipes" tip. This one is useful if you have more than one admin or moderator, and want to keep share why you banned (or unbanned) a specific member. To set up this Recipe: 1. Go into your control panel and click Basics > Recipes. 2. Click "Build Custom Recipe." 3. Give it a name, like "Add Member Note When Banning." 4. For Trigger, choose "Member Banned." 5. For Action(s) to Take, choose "Add Member Note." You'll notice that you can insert an...
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Crowdstack DiscussionMinor observation. Forum topics listing pages don't pick up formatting used on replies such as pale text color used to hide spoilers. Assuming that the default of the latest 3 replies is used, this can be dealt with by posting dummy replies after the reply which has used the formatting. I'll demonstrate this by posting such a reply on this topic. The Discussion listing page will show the text that I've formatted in the following reply. I will, once this has been approved.
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SuggestionsI would like to suggest that the Alert Bells in the Alerts section do not disappear until you have accessed the specific alert. Currently all the Unread indicators (Bells) disappear when you access the Alerts list but not necessarily access the actual alert itself. I would also like to see the numeric indicator in the top nav show the actual number of unread Alerts. This number would tick down by 1 every time you accessed an unread alert. Currently the numeric indicator disappears after the...
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SuggestionsIn my automated messages, I often greet members by their username (in the email salutation), but your system automatically links their user name to their member profile and thus gives their name the default link color, which is a different color than the rest of the email text. This makes the email look more like a form letter than I would like (as if I just filled in a blank with their name). Of course, this is precisely what happens, but I would like their names not to look so obviously...
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Blog Post CommentWe saw the article and wanted to salute you! My husband and i are the owners of ZenSpot, Inc. in Eugene, Oregon. www.zenspotmbs.com and the hosts of ZenSpot Radio on 1320AM in Eugene or www.1320inforadio.com . We have begun a Healthy Leadership Project that we would love for you to be part of. Might you be interested in coming on our live show? We air Fridays from 3-4PM. We'd love to interview you as part of our Healthy Leadership campaign. Let me know if you are interested. We'd love to...
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Blog Post CommentHi Melanie, We currently do not show any related content on the mobile interface.
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Blog Post CommentGood morning Paul, Glad you like the calendar changes, we are very excited about them here as well. The reason that the sub menu item does not respond to a users permissions is that its a custom menu item. Custom menu items cannot be hidden or shown by Hoop.la based on a users access to the web page that they link to. The "Calendar" built in menu item will show or hide based on a user's ability to view at least one calendar on your site. Hope this helps, Jonmark
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Blog Post CommentIf I understand correctly, then, we could remove the current calendar listing we have, implement a "calendar" item on the menu line, and it would then show or not, depending on user permission? That would work for us... __________________________________________________________________________________
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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 @ST , We only show publicly viewable circles to regular users. If the circle is marked as Viewable By Super Admins Only (the default), then only Super Admins will be able to see the circle. Thus, this shouldn't be an issue unless you've unchecked that option on the circles to make the circle visible. Does that help? Brian
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Blog Post CommentHi, Brian: I see the check box when configuring circles at the site level. Of course, all of this is more convoluted for me because we are using groups in an unconventional way. So when I looked at configuring circles at the group level, there is no checkbox for VIewable By Super Admins Only (I thought you'd get a chuckle out of this one). After poking around a bit with a couple of my dummy accounts, it looks like the Viewable By Super Admins Only default applies to group level circles by...
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Blog Post Comment@ST , yep, that's correct. Hoop.la won't show group circles publicly; the feature Ted described only applies to circles on the main site, not in groups.
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Blog Post CommentHi, I'm especially excited about the photo change. Thanks! I did, though, have two questions about the personalized activity stream. I had an activity stream on my home page (Member Milestones and More!), but I don't see a way to personalize it (see screen shot below). Why not? And, two, I don't understand this comment, "In addition, there is a new Personal Activity Stream page available whenever the Activity Stream is enabled for your site." (1) How do you enable the Activity Stream (I...
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Topic ReplyOn a related note, it would be great if the Recent Post widget displayed a link to "See More Recent Posts" (than what you set to appear in the widget). The old display posts/replies feature had a "display all" link and it was very handy. Currently, you preset the widget to display a fixed number of posts (up to 50), but invariably our leaders are looking for something that posted "a few days ago" and it has scrolled off the "show last 10" setting we have for that widget. (Yes, we could...
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Blog Post CommentWas this an offer to be a Community mgr? Lil FYI, the main page video does not show up in IE 9. It's just a red x, unless you hit compatibility mode.
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Blog Post CommentThe world, and especially NYC is a better place for Chi Chi Valenti and Johnny Dynell inhabiting in it. Ms. Valenti's depth of writing/poetry talent, and ability to create and lead whole movements (and circus leadership!) is awe inspiring. She is the real thing..
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Blog Post CommentIt sounds like the program is really working for you. That is really great. btw: NPR, how exciting to be on that show...one of my fav's
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Blog Post CommentHow many clients did this go out to? How many suggestions did you have to do this? I refer to the slide show.
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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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Topic ReplyHi Neil, I do not have a way to constrain the size of it. With today's hot fix it will no longer show on medium and small screens where space is at a premium, but I do not have a way to restrict the width. With it we can only do show or not show.
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Topic ReplyHi Neil! The Content Stream content block brings in all new content (including topics, blog posts, clips, etc.). The general scope is just a feed of everything, without regard to the logged in user who's viewing it. The "personalized" scope will display a feed that's specific to the person viewing it (so it will show things you're following). Personalized version looks different to every person viewing it. If there's a specific post (blog post?) you want to highlight on your home page in a...
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Blog Post CommentHey @Bradley Blinn ! I hope others will chime in here with their ideas too. The current customer sites I've seen using the feature are private, so I can't link to them here. We don't have an open demo to show off the databases feature, but if you (or any other customer) want to get a walkthrough, just let me know and I'm happy to set that up for you. We could also brainstorm some ideas specific to your community if you like!
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Topic ReplyCongratulations, Rich! That is quite a milestone! Your community is one I often show to other people as an example of a vibrant, healthy community!