Follr Community Feature #2: Adding Content Blocks to your Community Page

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This week on the Follr Blog we’ll again be going behind the scenes to look at some great Community Features!

Here’s a great one that you can use to improve your Community Home Page.. adding Custom Content Blocks.

To add Custom Content Blocks to your Community Home Page, simply log in at www.follr.com, then click on “Communities”:

If you haven’t already created your own Community, go ahead and do this!  After it’s created, either click on “Administration” or the Pencil icon under “Actions”:

Then click on “Custom Content” under “Design & Layout”:

On the next page you’ll be able to “Add a Content Block”:

Now you’re ready to get started! Simply fill out the form on this page, starting with “Name”, then “Heading” (which is optional) and then you can input whatever text, pictures or links you wish under “Text”.

Then just decide where you want it to be on your Home Page (“Location”) and click “Save Changes”. That’s it!

Now you can go to your Community Home Page and voila!  Your Custom Content Block will appear.

You can add as many of these Content Blocks as you wish.. they are a great and easy way to share content with your Follr Community!

Stay tuned for more great Community Features to come.

Join Our Community: Which One?

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I am SO confused. Yes, it is early morning so a certain level of pre-caffeinated confusion is expected, but this is perplexing.

Everywhere I turn on the web these days I am being invited to join a community. Not just one, but multiple, for the same site.

This morning as I began my usual lurk around my subscription sites and catch up reading, I got to one of my favorite places to find thoughtful content, Business 2 Community. I was rereading a brilliant article on LinkedIn endorsements by Denny McCorkle. As I scanned back to the top of the page, I saw it. Right there at primary focus of a page.

“Join Our Community”

Which way do I go? I feel like I am trapped in a Bugs Bunny Cartoon.

I was paralyzed with indecision. They wanted me to join their Community but offered me seven options. They wanted me to join seven communities to participate and engage with them?

I began to panic, I really like B2C but that’s a lot of tracking and following and monitoring. I already subscribed isn’t that good enough… Then I had my personal epiphany, or else my morning coffee hit me. That is EXACTLY what Follr Communities are for. Connect them all through one. The answer to the question I had been pondering all weekend, explaining “Why Follr Communities?”

The world needs Follr Communities. That image says it all. One Community to connect them all. The Community for your Community.

Companies can stop chasing their Communities, and spend that time focusing on growing them, all while offering them a lovely home to call their own.

It’s time to stop chasing your Community with your message, and offer your Community a peaceful place to engage with you and each other, one place to connect them all.

The answer really is, get Follr Communities for your Community.