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Roxy · ‎07-30-2009

Thanks for sharing the science of forum ranks, Mike. Great to see how far this has come, and it's nice to see where I'm on track with our current system and where I can improve them. I'm totally going to go and jigger the numbers, so they're more unpredictable! On a related note, the more these best practices could be set as defaults (when possible...obviously recognize the limitations) in the Lithium solution, the better. It pains me to think how much I would do differently during my first year in this job if I knew then what I know now.

Roxy · ‎06-03-2009

Great post, Joe. I love being involved with the strategic side but also on the frontline of actually figuring out how to take an idea and translate it in reality...it's usually messy and way harder than you think when you're brainstorming at the whiteboard. Also reminds me of one of my favorites quotes: "Ideas are a commodity. Execution of them is not." -Michael Dell

Roxy · ‎06-03-2009

Hi David, This is cool...it totally articulated something that I've felt but never really consciously noticed. I'm way more comfortable with the few hours, weeks, months, etc. instead of the granular info of month-date-year-time. When is this functionality going to be available? Or what release is it in? Thanks,

Roxy · ‎06-01-2009

Hi Alexander, Sounds like you're working on some exciting stuff. Great that you're tapping into the Community in the planning phases already! 🙂 Can help answer a few of your questions.... Lithium offers a hosted Community solution, so it's all available via the web. I don't think they offer an on-premise option, but I could be mistaken. You can easily make a specific forum board have read-only access, if you wanted. It's just a matter of drilling down to that specific forum board and denying the permissions for users to "create forum threads" and "reply to forum threads" (or whatever those specific settings are called). It's pretty easy to move threads or single posts to other locations in the forum. You just select "move thread" or "move post" and then use a folder drill-down tree to select the location you would like to move it to. You can leave a placeholder link and text (e.g. explaining why you moved it) in the original location. If you want to combine post(s) with an existing thread, you have to look at the unique forum thread and pull that # into the process, so that takes a bit of time & isn't as intuitive, but it's not hard. Hope that helps, and good luck!

Roxy · ‎01-15-2009

I think having the community / forum boards tied into these events has had a positive impact, especially for the user groups since they're user-driven events. And we incorporate these forum boards into the event invitations, confirmation emails, user group best practices, etc. so it encourages new users to bounce out to the forum and see what's going on with the event. Other advantages include: (1) Have a designated place for existing members to chat with / stay connected to each other (2) Create a public place that prospective members can find to learn about the group, agenda topics, etc. (3) Encourage collaboration around planning their meetings, providing agenda suggestions, etc. (4) Allow regional user groups to learn from each other (e.g. see agendas that other user groups are creating and using) (5) Keep a record of past user group details that isn't auto-archived away in email and that is available to mulitple stakeholders, so all the info doesn't live in my head, my folders, etc. (6) Board / thread subscriptions help keep the user group top-of-mind

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