
Hi team, ISO folks who are running Community Advisory programs, similar to a customer advisory board. I'm working on a strategy for next year and would love to validate with other CMs who are running similar programs. Program objective is to provide a feedback touchpoint for a specific cohort to meet with senior product and program leaders, preview the Community platform and program roadmap, and give feedback.
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What does tightknit offer to protect us from spam content like this?
I know most folks add hurdles to prove humanity to join community, but that isn't really an option for us.
any recs on best practices or tips and tricks?
google analytics / microsite the microsite "Site" analytics page in studio is great. does it support UTMs? say i were to work with our marketing operations team to build out a repo of utms. is this possible? will it / can it be tracked in studio site analytics?
Hi everyone! ๐ I'm a customer marketing manager at a B2B fintech whose community is aimed at CFOs and finance leaders. We ran our community on Circle for about a year, but engagement never really took off, so we're rethinking the format. Two directions we're weighing: 1. Local events + WhatsApp community. We'd recruit local ambassadors among our customers and grow the community through their networks, by organizing small events like dinners. Has anyone run this model? I'd love to hear what worked, what didn't, and how you kept the WhatsApp side from going quiet between events. 2. Slack + Tightknit. Probably a biased crowd to ask here ๐ but I'm curious how it performed for a senior, time-poor audience like CFOs. Thanks in advance!
Hello ๐ I'm Carrie, and I run community and events at Traction Complete (Vancouver-based but we run events throughout North America) *Where I'm starting:* zero. ๐ฑ We're building a customer community from scratch. No existing members, no traditions, no inside jokes yet. A blank channel and a lot of ambition. What I want to figure out: 1๏ธโฃ The cold start. How did you get your first 10-20 people to actually post? Did you seed conversations, hand-pick founding members, or just bribe people with swag? (No judgment.) 2๏ธโฃ Small vs. quiet. Starting small feels right, but small can easily turn into crickets. ๐ฆ How do you keep a tiny community alive until it reaches critical mass? 3๏ธโฃ Real growth vs. vanity growth. Member count is the easy number to celebrate. What told you your community was healthy before the numbers looked impressive? 4๏ธโฃ Host-led vs. member-led. When did it stop being you posting and start being members talking to each other? Was there a moment you could point to? My hunch is that tools and tactics only help once people have a real reason to be there, so I'm trying to nail the "why would anyone show up" part first. I'm also new to Tightknit ๐ and I want to learn how to get the most out of it. If you use it, which features made the biggest difference early on? Onboarding flows, events, awards, something else? And what would you set up on day one versus leave for later? Outside work, I love hiking. Most recently I hiked Volcรกn de Fuego in Guatemala, and thankfully I was off the mountain before it started erupting. ๐ If you've built something from the ground up, I'd love to hear what you'd do differently. Lessons from what went wrong are especially welcome. ๐ Let's connect! www.linkedin.com/in/carrie-chan-
CLG Host and Spirit Animal David Nebinski is hosting a stellar CoS meetup on Thursday. Sharing it here because sometimes we CMs can be a bit too proud to push our own events in our communities... so I'm pushing it for him. Do David the Legend a favor and send to your fave CoS in NY!! luma.com/โฆ Thanks y'all. ๐ซถ
Tiered badges inside a single journey We run three badge paths in our community: posts, replies, and reactions received. Each path has levels, for example 1, 5, and 15 posts. We want a member to earn a badge at each level and see it all as one journey. Right now a journey awards one badge, and only after every milestone is done. That causes two problems: 1. We can't add a hard top level, like 100 posts, without pushing the badge out of reach. So the real goals stay out of the journey. 2. To give a badge per level, we'd need a separate journey for each one. Three paths with three levels is nine journeys, and members see all of them. What we'd like: tiered awards inside a journey. Each milestone, or a set of milestone levels, grants its own badge. Bronze, silver, and gold would be a good model. A smaller related ask: let one journey require another, so a member only sees the next one after earning the badge for the first. Thanks. -Aaron

The Salesforce sync now supports the option to create a Lead for community members, so new members flow straight into your sales and marketing pipeline. In Studio, go to Integrations > Salesforce, set Create Contacts or Leads to "Leads", and pick the Lead Source to stamp on every Lead Tightknit creates. Read more here.
๐ฉ Reward Members For Joining A Specific Slack Channel
Journeys have a new milestone that rewards members for joining a Slack channel, perfect for nudging new members into your intros channel or a program's dedicated space. Add the Join a specific Slack channel milestone to any journey in Studio, in Slack, or through the MCP.
๐ ๏ธ Improvements and Fixes Studio
Calendar view - The new Calendar page in the Studio shows your events, journeys and scheduled polls in month, week, 3-day and day views.
Tracking "invited" status - Members an admin adds now show as "Invited" in Studio > Members and are filterable. They are excluded from member counts and growth charts until they join by logging in to either your Slack workspace or your community site for the first time.
Export a group's members as a CSV - Download a group's current members from the โฏ menu on the group page or from Cmd+K.
Slack admins can sign in to Studio directly - Any admin or owner of a Slack workspace that already has Tightknit can now sign in to Studio and land in their workspace.
Choose link previews in Message Blaster - Decide whether Slack shows link previews when you send a Message Blaster message. The send dialog now has separate Recipients and Settings steps.
Engagement Rate formula revised - Engagement Rate now shows how many of your members have engaged in activity in the time window.
Community Site
Member counts you can trust - Home and feed page member counts now closer reflect the numbers you'd see in your Slack workspace, plus any Tightknit-only users on top. Bots and deactivated members are excluded. Show or hide the feed page count on its own under Site > Overview in Studio.
Easier to find in search and AI answers - Improvements to SEO for Google, Bing and AI answer engines with structured data and canonical links.
AI titles fine tuned - AI-generated post titles now attempt to preserve the author's tone.
MCP
Studio links in MCP responses - When an assistant creates or looks up an award, journey, event, post or other item, the response now includes a link that opens it in Studio.
Member count and milestone controls - Show or hide feed page member counts with edit_site_pages, and add the new channel-join milestone with the journey tools.
Feed tools return every setting - The get_feed and list_feeds tools now return every setting update_feed can change, so an agent can confirm its changes stuck.
Integrations
Salesforce Activities pick up later edits - Edits to past community activity now update the matching Salesforce Activity records, instead of Salesforce keeping the first version.
(Bugfix) Long emails no longer stall the Salesforce sync - Members with an email longer than 80 characters are skipped with a warning in Sync History, instead of blocking the whole backfill.
Misc
Only pay for members who've joined - Deactivated members no longer count toward your bill and neither do pre-join "invited" users.

