Blogs

A Very Happy New Year HUG! I've long since stopped making New Years Resolutions to stop or quit doing things. Instead, I've decided to find what activities bring me joy and satisfaction and do more of them. Blogging is one thing I'm committing to in 2022. So our Powered by Edu blog will be coming to you weekly via the HUG. Wondering what this blog is all about? then check out our inaugural blog that explains it all. This week's topic is all things Impersonation . What it is, how to get started, where to go to manage the settings, email notifications, reporting, and even some best practices ideas and tips for maximizing this powerful tool. Our Impersonation ...

Does Anyone Know the Answer? As Community Managers, facilitating the response to unanswered Discussion posts is a great way to boost your overall engagement and site satisfaction, increase your Engagement Benchmark Score (EBS) , and ensure that your community members will keep coming back time and again (and posting too!). The mission this Powered by EDU Blog is to help you squash, quell, obliterate, annihilate, and (most importantly) get responses to those unanswered posts. We'll be using the Unanswered Posts Report and Unanswered Posts Widget to do so. These tools will help you wrangle your unanswered posts and hold your Staff accountable ...

In this Powered by Edu Blog, we're exploring our NEW Engagement Benchmark Score or EBS for short. We're pretty excited about it here at Higher Logic HQ and hope you'll be too. The Engagement Benchmark Score is a tool for you to understand your community engagement through data – and how it compares to communities of similar size, focus area, and scope. We also provide tips for every letter grade on how you can level up your community engagement strategy to boost your score and improve that GPA. In this blog, we'll explore the basics-- where to locate your EBS, how we use three factors of Activity , Value , and Reach to calculate your overall ...

This Powered by Edu Blog is for all of our Event Planners who need more time in their lives. So, we've come to love the RSVP Only option when setting up events in Event Manager. Why do you ask? Simplicity . This registration mode allows attendees to register with one-click and may cancel their registration with one-click too. Also, it will only take you a few clicks to set up an event using the RSVP Only registration mode. RSVP was designed for those with accounts on your site and for free events. You'll still get a headcount and registration roster of course for all those afternoon fitness walks, staff trainings, webinars, and brown bag lunch ...

Hello HUG and welcome to the launch of our Powered by Edu Blog ! Your Higher Logic Education Team will be blogging weekly (or sometimes bi-weekly) if we have a lot to say. Each blog will have a different topic/tip that includes: a tutorial video, a use case, and a link to the knowledge base article(s) in the documentation in the Support Center with the steps. We'll be blogging on advanced configurations and platform functionality-- think of it like Higher Logic Graduate School but in manageable bits. If you're new to Higher Logic? we've got you covered too! We'll also have some “Back to Basics” blogs planned too that will get into basic configuration ...

QR Codes (Quick Response Codes) are used to encode information into a scan-able image that can easily be read by mobile devices. Information can include: website URLs codes (numbers, letters, SKUs, etc) contact information This is similar to a barcode that might have a number encoded in it. A QR code is a specific encoding method, and there are other similar encodings. QR codes are square and distinguished by having small squares in 3 corners of the QR Code: Mobile devices will need to have a QR code reader app installed to read a QR code and decode this information. One of the most common use cases is to have a URL encoded, that when ...