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Friday, July 14, 2017

Start a conversation right on your website

Introducing tags and commenting for your stories


 Increase reader engagement by allowing your members to start a conversation directly on your website, and voice their opinions through the new built-in comments feature.

Available on Next-Generation themes only, all stories now include two additional options to help you further engage your audience: comments and tags.

 

Comments

Enabling comments will allow your members to contribute to the stories published with their own opinions and suggestions. Through the 'like' and 'reply to' capabilities, members even have the ability to interact with each other on a comment level, creating threaded replies.

Simply check of "Enable Comments" when creating or editing your story to display the comments area. Please note, that members must be logged in, in order to leave comments.



Once comments are enabled, you will also see two new tabs appear on your stories list page - 'Latest' & 'Most Popular'. Stories with the most amount of interactions (likes & comments) will appear on the Most Popular tab, making it easy for readers to join the conversation.

Tags


Often found on blogs, tags are keywords associated with a story's content, meant to categorize your stories, as well as help with search results. 

Simply identify a few tags that the story relates to, and publish. On your Stories list page, visitors will see a list of existing tags and a number to signify how many stories fall under them. Clicking on a tag will filter the list of stories to display the most relevant ones.

Now, you can turn your stories into blogs! This is just one of the enhancements we've made to help you better engage your members. There's still lots more on the way.

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7 comments:

  1. JBGoitJuly 16, 2017 at 6:25 AM

    Great and useful feature. We've already started to use and promote it.

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  2. BrendaJuly 17, 2017 at 5:35 PM

    This is great. However, I'm not seeing the photo of the member commenting on it. Is that something I need to 'turn on' for them to show? All members of our club have photos uploaded.

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    1. ClubRunnerJuly 18, 2017 at 2:03 PM

      Hi Brenda,

      I've asked our support team to reach out to you directly and look into this. They will contact you soon.

      Sincerely,
      Divya
      ClubRunner Team

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  3. Carl DierschowJuly 17, 2017 at 6:28 PM

    I'm not seeing this option in our website - I went to the story library, created a story, and there's no mention of tags or comments. Do I have to globally enable it someplace?

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    1. Brenda & CraigJuly 18, 2017 at 10:03 AM

      I found it at the bottom of the page, it's a 'check' box.

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    2. ClubRunnerJuly 18, 2017 at 2:15 PM

      Hi Carl,

      The comments and tagging feature is only available on Next-Generation website themes. Next-Gen themes offer more modern and mobile friendly layouts and we do encourage you to switch to take advantage of the additional benefits. You can learn more by visiting: http://clubrunner.helpserve.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/1295/755/next-generation-website-themes-guide

      Please do not hesitate to contact our support team should you have any questions.

      Sincerely,
      Divya
      ClubRunner Team

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  4. LesK2020July 17, 2017 at 10:10 PM

    Great innovation! Our club is using it.

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