Hello Board
I am excited to update you on a couple of new components of Higher Logic.
We are upgrading to a new Thrive Community Theme and we are adding the Ideation module. This is a game-changer for HL in my mind - wish we would have had this 6 months ago. That said, this was also provided at a discount on our renewal, so we have actually saved over $5,000 in renewal fees.
Here is more information on the Thrive Community Theme.
Thrive Community Welcome Page Overview – Higher Logic As you see, they are moving towards a membership/association focus with these added benefits and it saved us money. I will review this very closely moving forward.
Here is more information regarding Ideation - which I am super excited about!
Common use cases
Common use cases for Ideation include:
- User groups that solicit product feature ideas - Ideation gives these organizations a central place to gather and nurture feedback to better align their product road map with user-requested ideas and features.
- Associations that request event session ideas for their upcoming annual conference - Ideation gives these associations an opportunity to deliver the sessions and content their members actually want and need.
Main features
- One centralized location where all Ideation conversations take place - the Ideation Home page
- When searching for ideas, the system will display already submitted ideas as users type into the search bar. This helps to both make it easier to find ideas and prevent duplicate submissions about the same ideas. If a user doesn't see a suggested idea already submitted, they can click a link right from the search bar to post it themselves.
- Users can vote and comment on submissions, helping to crowd-source ideas and feedback
- Admins can control who can view and submit ideas
- Admins can create custom Categories to keep ideas organized
- Admins can create custom Status labels
- Organization can provide feedback on an idea (great idea! bad idea! Already in development)
- Users can submit their ideas anonymously (if enabled)
- Admins can customize this feature's name to fit your organization's specific use-case (e.g., Product Feedback)
- Users can include file attachments with their ideas
More information below:
Ideation Overview – Higher Logic------------------------------
Anne Sawyer
Executive Director
90 Minds, Inc.
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