What URL should your community users use to access the community website?
Option One: Use our Connected Community Domain Name
The URL is a subdomain of connectedcommunity.org. http://????.connectedcommunity.org. A subscriber would use the acronym of their association in the question mark field.
Example: If your association’s acronym was ABC then your URL would be http://abc.connectedcommunity.org.
Option Two: Use a Subdomain of your Organization’s Domain Name (DNS Entries required)
Example: If your acronym was AWEA and you owned awea.org. We can change it to network.awea.org or community. awea.org or connect.awea.org Essentially we can modify it to anything in the realm of xxx.awea.org. Most subscribers use “community, network, my community, exchange, my” as the subdomain.
http://community.yourorganization.org
http://network.yourorganization.org,
http://mynetwork.yourorganization.org
http://my.yourorganization.org
http://connect.yourorganization.org
Option Three: Purchase your own new Domain Name!
For instance, AWEA, the American Wind Energy Association purchased their own domain name for their community site: plugintoawea.org.
Please advise your Higher Logic Advisor which URL your association has selected for your community site. This is a critical sign-off point.
DNS Entries:
If you proceed with Option Two or Three, we will need a few entries added to your DNS record so that we can provision the site and the community tools. Please pass this on to your IT team and confirm when this has been completed.
As always, please let your Customer Success Advisor know if you have any questions!