ContributionsMost RecentMost LikesSolutionsRe: A goodbye for now Thank you, Adriana, for all your valuable contributions! All the best in your new role! Re: Is there a way to track new member activity in Khoros admin or Community analytics? HiMercedes_O, There's no easy way to track newcomers in Community Analytics nor Admin metrics. We also want to track our newcomers to make sure they receive answers quickly and for that purpose, we want to use Khoros Care - there's an easy way to filter users by their rank and activity. Re: Allow posting a question from the home page. In our case, we promote search on the home page and the Ask a question button is way below. The initial design had search and the button next to each other, but we decided to go the other way. So far, we haven't seen a situation of duplicate questions too often, if not almost never. Also, we haven't heard any negative feedback from our users that it's hard to ask a question. This is how it looks like: Re: How many Full-Timers do you have working on your community? Hi Keith, Our Community is already pretty mature, so it's hard to compare it to yours 🙂 We started Community efforts in 2010, and took them really seriously in 2015 (building a team and having the first real forum platform). So today, we're a team of 5 full-time employees, with plans to add one more person to the team this year. Every person has some kind of specialization. So the number of full-time employees may depend on the Community's priorities and its primary goal. Of course, there are many employees engaged in the Community as well, but not full-time 😉 As for the statistics, the traffic increases every year, but the number of new posts is pretty steady since a lot of content already exists 🙂 Last year, our users asked over 2,000 questions and added around 7,500 replies. We also had almost 2,000 product ideas submitted and over 4,500 comments on them. I hope this helps. Have a great weekend, Karolina Re: Thoughts on must haves for any community Higdawson, I know your struggle. Let's be honest: money is usually the hottest topic when you fight for a Community platform. When we were evaluating Khoros and other platforms (just as an FYI, we migrated to Khoros in March last year), we went through 8 different trials and spent months on evaluation. From the functional features, the most important ones for us were: Product ideas Add product ideas Vote on product ideas Change product idea status Knowledge base Rich, built-in analytics Gamification features Tags: following, creating From non-functional, these were: SAML integration Data migration from the legacy platform Ease of extending the platform with new functionality Ease of changing the layout Forum platform release frequency Permission setup Nested comment structure Khoros won in all possible categories. The second platform that was our serious candidate was missing 3 critical features and they were not planned to be implemented. Also, Khoros API is very easy to work with, the level of platform customizations is almost endless. But most importantly, we were looking for a true partner and not just a vendor. You may have a nice platform, but Support or CSM or Professional Services can be a nightmare to work with (been there!). This was also something that convinced our board members to go for the most expensive (let's be honest here), but on the other hand the best to work with Community platform vendor😉 I hope it helps, Karolina Re: Allow posting a question from the home page. Hiolepord, It's natural that we all want our users to search first before posting. That way we have a better chance to avoid duplicates and content management is easier. Once upon a time, we even tried to make it hard for customer to open a support ticket. Not only ask a question in the forums. That leads to nothing good - it only leads to user frustration. So we have the "Ask a question" button" on the home page even in two places - next to the search box and next to the activity feed: Re: Badge Advanced Rules- assign a badge for posting in a particular board MMathiaswe do exactly the same, once a month. Would be awesome to have the possibility to assign a badge automatically! Re: Word of Mouth marketing via Community Hi Parker, Our users share their Community successes or contributions in social media, especially LinkedIn. We also recently received kudos on Twitter from Feverbee CEO, Richard Millington 😉 Maybe there are discussions or mentions also in other places that I'm not aware of😉 Regards, Karolina Re: Feedback on login page redesign Intuitive for me🙂 I would most likely add just a short explanation what Maia is, for example: "Let our chat bot, Maia, guide you..." or "Type "register for Atlas" in the chat bubble to let our bot, Maia, guide you..." Re: New Titans and Level Ups! (August 2022) Welcome on board!👏👏👏