• Community Blogs: In Case You Missed It - 10 Reasons to Upgrade

    As part of our new quarterly webinars, this quarter our Manager of Professional Services, Elijah Hardin, walked through 10 reasons to upgrade your Telligent Community site.

    To see the recording of the webinar click here.

    We hope you find this helpful when building a use case for upgrading your community to take advantage of some of the most advanced community features available!

  • Community Blogs: 5 basics for customer community success

    A customer community is the perfect platform for organisations to build real and meaningful relationships with not only customers but prospects too. It is these relationships, which foster engagement, loyalty and lead someone from curiosity to advocacy.

    From high-tech to higher education, online communities have a strong use case in most verticals, so long as the strategy is driven by the businesses’ objectives and audience…

  • Community Blogs: Engaging Consumers with an online branded community

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    An engaged, branded community can be the ultimate asset for your company if done correctly. We are living in the “Age of the Customer” and Telligent’s technology helps you engage with your consumers in a more meaningful way.

    A branded community gives your organization the opportunity to increase customer reach, add value through-out the customer journey and improve existing customer relationships.

    Here…

  • Community Blogs: Common Customer needs from an "Incredible" Social Community

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    Customers typically want the same things from a positive Social Community experience.  They want information, support, and interaction:

    Information. Information comes in the form of Forums or Blogs and can be documented and searched.  Some common topics may include technical information, product/sales information and upcoming product enhancements etc.

    This makes it easy for users to easily search for technical answers to…

  • Community Team Announcements: Telligent Community 9.2 Now Available

    Today we are announcing that version 9.2 of Telligent Community is available and ready for production use:

    Telligent Community 9.2 is a minor release, but includes some important updates:

    • We ran multiple versions ourselves (here) starting nearly 6 weeks ago
    • Soliciting feedback from our community about the product

    While we fixed a lot of bugs (over 80) we also added some key new features.

  • Community Blogs: What role does or should the contact center play in the community.

    When it comes to a social community, many companies view their investment as a simple matter of outbound marketing. They view individual portions of their own organization as separate components without really considering from the customer’s perspective, the company is the company.

    Customers expect an omni-channel experience that doesn’t require they interact with the company through any one way. It’s imperative…

  • Community Blogs: How to Handle Negative Reviews and Customer Complaints

    “People talk about you on the internet, why not give them a place where you can listen to feedback and manage the conversation?” This is the question I pose when someone voices a concern about having a flood of complaints overwhelm them by turning on a community. The truth is, no matter what product you sell or what industry you are in, you will at some point encounter customer concerns. 

    One of the great benefits…

  • Community Blogs: Winning tips for an engaged community

    Building an engaged community that is sustainable, profitable and with purpose takes a lot of different elements to make happen. You simply need to consult those who have grown successful social communities and will be inundated with tips and ideas. However, one element that is often overlooked is probably the most fundamental to online community building: your audience. 

    This blog post will delve into the crucial community…

  • Community Blogs: 3 Questions to Determine if you need a Community

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    Many companies assume they are fully utilizing social media to communicate with their consumers.  However, there are several ways to further this communication strategy and to learn what your consumers truly think about your products and services; and, how to position your solution as technology and markets mature over time. 

    Ask yourself three questions:

    1. Are your consumers truly engaged?
    2. Can your consumers quickly navigate…