10 action items from The State of Online Branded Communities
Rosemary O'Neill
Community Management
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Blog Post CommentBlimey I'd best go and sign up with Twitter etc. I am sooo bad at this social media malarky! I do have a FB account ... but I only have three friends!! Not because no one likes me, but because I only set it up to keep up with two friends who live abroad (the other one lives round the corner). I reject all the friend requests that I receive
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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 CommentLove this! It saves me the time it takes to explain to guests, how to reply to a post (e.g., at top right click join etc.). Thank you! ST
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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 @Harvey Mercado , The API is not meant to be used for Single Sign-On; rather it's more of a tool for pushing and pulling data to/from Crowdstack programmatically. Crowdstack uses SAML 2.0 for SSO, so in order to hook up your Crowdstack via SSO, you will need to implement a SAML Identity Provider on your registration and login system. In SSO mode, Crowdstack will act as a SAML Service Provider. SAML 2.0 is an open standard with tons of information widely available. You can learn more about...
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Topic ReplyHi @Harvey Mercado , You can set up your SSO configuration so that users of your system will be automatically registered in Crowdstack without any further registration steps. To do that, you need to make sure that your SAML Assertion provides all of the profile fields for Crowdstack, which includes, at a minimum, Email Address and Display Name. Once you have everything set up, then anyone who visits Crowdstack will need to sign in or register on your external system in order to get signed in...
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Topic ReplyHi @Harvey Mercado , You won't be able to do an IdP-initiated login request, which is what you're asking for. I wouldn't worry about this auto-sign in scenario just yet. I'd focus first on the basics of getting the SAML IdP AuthnRequest processing and Assertion response working. Get that set up and working. Then , you can start looking at how to handle automatic logins. When you get there, you'll have a couple of options: Probably the best option is to enable "Auto Sign-In Mode" in...