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Tags: Community Strategy

What Is An Online Community? Explore The Basics & Benefits


An online community fosters a sense of belonging and engagement among members or customers. Discover the benefits of starting your own digital community today.

Sarah Spinosa
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Tags: Community Strategy, Engagement, Volunteering & Mentoring

2025 Association Community Benchmarks: The State of Online Communities


See how 1,500 association communities performed in 2025—logins, contributors, digest open rates, resource libraries, automation, and integrations—with actions to grow engagement.

Kelly Whelan
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Tags: Community Strategy, Engagement

How to Drive Community Engagement and Prove the Value of Your Program


Executives want ROI, members want connection. Discover strategies to engage your community and prove the measurable business value behind it.

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Tags: Community Strategy

Planning a Community Migration: Lessons, Pitfalls, and How to Prepare


Migrating your community? Don’t lose members or momentum. Get hard-won lessons, pitfalls to avoid, and tips for making your platform move a success.

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Tags: Community Strategy

The Future of Online Communities: Trends, Value, and What’s Next


Hear about the latest trends in online communities, how to prove community ROI, and how different generations prefer to engage.

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Tags: B2B, B2C, Community Strategy, Customer Success

What Is a Customer Community? Examples & How to Build One


Want to build or relaunch an online community? Use the three steps in this framework, along with community engagement ideas, to make it a success.

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Nicole Saunders
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Tags: Advocacy & Engagement, Community Strategy

What Happens When You Bring Advocacy Into Your Community


You want to grow advocacy, but not at the expense of your community’s culture. Here’s how to strike the balance and keep members engaged.

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Tags: Community Strategy

How to Fully Customize Your Community with Higher Logic Vanilla’s Widget Builder


Introducing Widget Builder—a fully integrated development environment built into Higher Logic Vanilla that lets you build, customize, and deploy widgets using React + TypeScript.

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