Hi all! This week on the Follr Blog we’re going behind the scenes and looking at how to start Discussions with your Community.
Discussions are an important part of any organization. They have their own section on your Follr Community page, and when you post one, they can be automatically be shared with your connected social media such as Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.
Let’s set one up. To start a Discussion with your Community, simply log in at www.follr.com, then click on “Communities”: Then either click on “Administration” or the Pencil icon under “Actions”: (if you haven’t already created a Community in Follr, go ahead and make one! 🙂 )
Then click on “Add a Discussion” under “Discussions”:
Next add a “Name” for your Discussion and write a brief description so your Community knows what the topic is all about. Then click “Save Changes“.
That will get you started! Go to your Community page and you can see it listed under the “Discussions” page:
Next if you want to add a post to your Discussion, just click on it and then type what you want to post where it says “Share your Update“. Then click “Post” to finish up! Make sure to connect your social media accounts if you want to auto-share to them.
Have a good time sharing in a Discussion with your Community! Remember to keep it civil and most importantly.. have fun!
Check back next week when we’ll unveil another exciting feature in Follr here at the Follr Blog.
Wappingers Falls, NY (May 22nd, 2014) Follr, Inc., a SaaS (Service as a software) company today announced the release of “Follr Communities“, a collaborative social media based platform that significantly extends the existing Follr product suite.
The product enables clubs, groups or organizations to create an online community looking to engage members, students, employees or individuals around a common interest, product, brand or shared passion. As a single point of entry members of each Follr Community can organize events, market, communicate, share content and network.
Stephen Fells
“Follr Communities is a significant enhancement to our platform and a natural extension of our focus on providing a better way for people to connect,” said Stephen Fells, Follr CEO and Co-Founder adding “Networking of any type is now predominantly an online activity. As this move takes place Follr Communities serves as the solution for all forms of collaboration, something specific social silos fall short on.”
Follr Communities can be customized to match any brand or style and members have access to advanced features including:
Rich profiles – Members can create highly detailed Websites encouraging richer, more human connections. The profiles also help with online reputation management, pre-event networking and serve as an online resume.
Events – Members can create, manage and run events of all sizes within a community.
Automated Social Media – Social media content is distributed to multiple online marketing channels.
Social Wall – The Follr Social Wall ensures members see real time social media content from every marketing channel ensuring they never miss a tweet or post again.
Enhanced Chats and Messaging – News feed, threaded discussions and rich messaging functionality enhance community engagement.
Flexible Membership – Public, private or paid options are available enabling subscription communities with a revenue share for administrators.
Photos and Documents – Members can share photos and documents within their community.
“Follr Communities provides a feature set that will better support existing online groups especially with the rich data provided by Follr profiles,” stated Follr Founder and Product Lead Mark Wayman. He added “In doing so it appeals to a broad audience of online community members who are not served by existing simpler solutions.”
The company is seeing schools, universities and colleges build communities as a collaboration tool for students while causes, charities and not-for-profits are spreading their message and raising funds. Entertainment brands looking to build on and increase fan engagement can leverage Follr Communities as a hub for outreach while corporations looking to improve internal and external communication or more effectively administer projects will benefit. The company will be releasing additional features to Follr Communities over the remainder of the quarter.
About Follr, Inc.:
Follr, Inc. (www.follr.com) is a software company founded in 2011. With offices in California and New York Follr provides Web-based business and personal networking products.
Follr Communities provide vibrant, social groups and event management tools to engage anyone around a membership, club, group, shared passion or interest.
Follr Profile Websites enable individuals, companies and brands to tell their story using a combination of personal or corporate history, social media profiles (Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare etc.) and content. They are personally branded Websites used as an initial point of contact and represents an aggregation of all online and offline information. Accessed by an enduring, easy to remember URL they represent a more complete picture and story in an increasingly digital world.
The Follr network provides users with the ability to create and edit their Follr Profile Website and Follr Community. It additionally facilitates improved networking while providing access to millions of jobs.
The combination of Follr products uniquely provide “a better way to connect”.
