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Digital-first, unified engagement hub
Online brand communities for enterprises
Enterprise CX analytics from Topbox, recently acquired by Khoros
Channel and tech integrations to provide a seamless customer experience
Increase agent efficiency and get contact center insight
Self-service support, education, and collaboration
Content management, publishing, and governance
Our in-house experts in social media and community management for Khoros customers
Data integrations for better customer experience
More than onboarding and implementation, this is where our partnership begins
Join us for live webinars and other events, like Khoros Engage
Watch webinars and events on your own time
Whitepapers, checklists, on-demand webinars, guides, and more
Insights, tips, news, and more from our team to yours
Case studies with successful customers to see how they did it
15+ years experience, built from Spredfast and Lithium
Meet the team that leads the team
Press releases and other announcements
We’re hiring — come build the future of customer experience
Need anything? We’re here for you
Our commitment to do more and do better
Connect with 70K+ customer engagement professionals
Find solutions and support for Khoros products here
Autodesk is a global leader in design and make software for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and media and entertainment industries. Some of their best-known products include AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and Revit. Autodesk has been in business for 37 years and the Autodesk Community has been around for over two decades. They primarily used their Khoros-powered community for support, but theyalso wanted to support peer-to-peer engagement.
During the decades that Autodesk has supported an online community, they’ve built up a lot of great content, and they now have an active superuser program. They wanted to increase the number of verified answers within their community while also increasing the number of superuser customers answering questions. The company decided to reintroduce a program called Answer Days that experienced previous successes on a much smaller scale. During their first revamped Answer Day, Autodesk set aside a 20-hour period in which team members from multiple departments across the company spent time answering customer questions about topics like technical support, development, workflows, and more.
Autodesk had a few important goals with Answer Day: They wanted to increase the amount of peer-to-peer answers in their community, drive monthly active users, and they wanted their audience to become comfortable with getting answers from the community and understanding the value of doing so. Autodesk also wanted to improve workflow for customers and increase adoption.
Autodesk set ambitious goals for Answer Day. In addition to in-community promotions, they coordinated across marketing, product support, customer success, and even HR/facilities to create an effective event. The marketing team promoted the event on social and organic channels. They also created internal assets to help customer-facing teams drive attendance and they encouraged employee participation across multiple offices. Communities aren’t usually tied to one specific moment in time, but with Answer Day, Autodesk created something unique: a coordinated event hosted on their community. The event lasted for 20 total hours and included more than 100 people company-wide.
Autodesk’s Answer Day was highly successful: not only were there huge spikes in questions and answers, but it engaged employees who had not participated in the community as well as tens of thousands of customers. Based on the success of their revamped Answer Day, Autodesk plans to host an Answer Day each quarter for different product groups and regions moving forward.
Answer Days based on industry and included team members from technical support, product, and development to answer customer questions
a space where developers could communicate with customers, bringing people together who don’t usually connect
employees on how to interact with customers in the forums
internal gamification to motivate team members, including rewards for the most likes and the most replies and solutions authored
“Answer days are live-action knowledge sharing sessions that increase community activity across the board for new users, superuser experts, and Autodesk employees alike.”
Answer Days are a celebration of Autodesk’s products and community, and they’re a celebration of team members connecting with customers directly. With their revamped Answer Day, Autodesk increased community engagement, traffic, and employee participation. They also increased the amount of peer-to-peer answers in their community, meaning that future searches will produce more results and they’ll earn a higher SEO placement. Verified answers increase search rank even more, meaning more traffic for the brand.
increase in questions asked
increase in questions answered
visits to the community within the Answer Day time period