Technorati State of The Blogosphere 2011 – Live at Blogworld LA

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Live-Blogging Blogworld LA 2011: Being joined by Shani Higgins, CEO of Technorati to give the State of The Blogosphere report.

Successful solutions for Building and Growing an Online Community

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Live-Blogging Blogworld LA 2011: This Blogworld session by Debba Haupert.

Taking The Pulse Of Your Community

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Live-Blogging Blogworld LA 2011: “Taking the pulse of your community” by Lauren Vargas.

Blogworld LA Keynote: Peter Shankman

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Live-Blogging Blogworld LA 2011: Why Peter still believes in Klout, but has some issues with its current state, having been a big fan from the beginning.

Why Us? The Strategy that Creates Community and Opportunity

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Live blogging Blogworld LA 2011: This is the keynote session for the Tribes and Community track at Blogworld LA, by Liz Strauss.

Conference Pass To Blogworld LA available for Vanilla Blog readers

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Vanilla Forums is a sponsor at the Blogworld and New Media Expo conference and expo happening this week in Los Angeles.  To honor the faithful readers of this blog, we are giving away 1 conference pass that gets you to all the sessions including keynotes, and gets you entry into all the crazy parties.  We [...]

Vanilla Affiliate Program

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We have now re-launched our affiliate program and are busy adding to both the content and relationship management programs.  It provides on-going referral commissions to successful affiliates and is simple to set-up and promote.  To get started, you can sign-up here: http://vanillaforums.com/info/partnerprogram and after that it is as simple as linking to any page on [...]

Setting Up Facebook Login and New Account Registration for Your Forum

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If you are embedding a forum into your Facebook page, it makes sense to offer Facebook authentication.  The steps to getting set-up with this are fairly straightforward but warrant explanation. From your admin dashboard, click on the Authentication tab.  Now select Facebook from the ‘Configure an Authenticator’ drop-down menu. Open up a new browser window [...]

Vanilla Forums Blog Commenting Software

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Visitors to this blog may have noticed that we have changed our blog commenting system. It is actually a Vanilla-powered system that is tied to a forum at ForumAboutForums.com. When a post is created on the blog, a discussion is simultaneously created at the site and comments on either the blog or the forum will [...]

Embedding A Vanilla Forum On A Facebook Page

20. Oct, 2011 by in Help | 2 Comments »

If you are looking to add a little pizzazz to your Facebook fan page while tying it back to a site you control, you’ll be interested in how to embed a Vanilla Forum into a page.  You can see this live at the Vanilla Forums FB Page Forum.  Feel free to sign-up for a member [...]