COMMUNITY CONTENT AND ENGAGEMENT

Interactions that matter, connections that last

Create a destination for purposeful communication and interaction between your customers or business partners, experts, and employees.

DYNAMIC ENGAGEMENT

Online communities built for maximum value exchange

Communities grow organically when people discover and share unique insight. Our software includes various purpose-built mediums that foster community vibrancy, from threaded discussion forums and idea boards to collaborative knowledge bases, events, blogs, and more.

More ways to connect

Foster better connections and engagement by leveraging the best-fit medium and content approach for different audiences and purposes.

Audiences united in real-time

Bring key audiences together quickly for live announcements, meet-ups, webinars, and more using built-in event features and live stream integrations.

Insights and advice on-demand

Facilitate a continuous exchange of ideas and feedback, fueling innovation, product development, and customer satisfaction.

DISCUSSION FORUMS

Foster peer-to-peer engagement

Create rich conversations by letting community members actively interact with your brand and their peers. Quickly spin-up public or private forums for different audiences or topics. Help visitors find the best-fit content by filtering for newest, most viewed, and most liked topics. Enable users to start new discussions, add comments or questions to threads, and like posts from other users.

BLOGS

Reach the masses in real-time

Leverage integrated blogging tools to publish announcements, updates, or insights to all your audiences at once. Use the simple content editor tool to create professionally-designed blogs with formatted text, tables, emojis, inline images or videos and more. Optimize for community member consumption on desktop and mobile devices, and apply SEO tactics to increase community traffic. Add image captions, hyperlinks, or alternative text to support community accessibility. Use threaded replies and comments to spark two-way discussions between authors and members on topics covered in blogs.

Community Engagement Blogs

KNOWLEDGE BASE

Harness collective knowledge

Create an ever-growing hub of expert knowledge on your products and services, topics, and more to fuel self-service and peer-to-peer learning. Centrally craft, review, publish, update, and maintain content to address your audience’s questions or needs. Enable customers, partners, external experts, and employees to collectively contribute knowledge and generate content. Group articles and other resources into organized guides and chapters to help users navigate dense or sequential content such as FAQs, onboarding guides, and thematic learning materials.

COMMUNITY EVENTS

Attract event audiences quickly

Plan and promote online, in-person, and hybrid events to captive community audiences, in an instant. Craft brand-approved event pages and embed event information within different areas of your community. Include event details, links, date, time, and an embedded Google Map for in-person location details. Create event invites and reminders, and send to members and non-members using e-mail or private message. Track and report on RSVPs and attendance. Leverage integrations to embed live stream video from YouTube, Facebook or Vimeo, or host Zoom meetings and webinars from your community.

Community Engagement Community Events

IDEA BOARDS

Crowdsource impactful ideas

Tap into ongoing suggestions from your community to fuel product or service innovation and improvements. Create dedicated forums where community members propose ideas and offer feedback to your brand. Enable users to vote, prioritize, and refine suggestions from others to ensure your company focuses on areas with maximum impact.

PRIVATE MESSAGING

Facilitate focused communication

Enable secure, private communication within your community by allowing members to connect one-on-one or in small groups. Send broadcast announcements with admin permissions. Access a personal inbox to easily read, reply, delete, or search. Report inappropriate messages for moderator review to maintain a safe, respectful environment.

Community Engagement Private Messaging

GROUPS

Foster specialized communities

Create and manage focused sub-groups within your community, providing a space for deeper connection around a common purpose, such as special interests, focus groups, product launches, and more. Reach specific audiences by tailoring group membership and visibility to be open, closed, or hidden, and empower community superusers to manage groups directly.

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