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Yoeri
Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️⭐️
September 3, 2018

Topic helpfulness: now previewing on inSpired

  • September 3, 2018
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Topic helpfulness: now previewing on inSpired
At inSided we want to help you understand the value of your community. We are developing a feature that gives more insight into which Q&A topics in your community are considered helpful and which are not. Next to that we were inspired by the post: Demonstrate and drive community value by enabling public likes in our community.

Today we rolled this beta feature as a preview out inSpired, we call it Topic Helpfulness.

What is Topic helpfulness?

A little area below the opening post where users can indicate if they found the topic helpful or not.

How does Topic helpfulness work?

Every Q&A topic (questions and questions that have a best answer marked) of your community will get a new little area below the opening post asking one simple question: “Did this topic help you find an answer to your question?”. Users can reply via a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to indicate whether or not it has helped them.

This data/event will then be directly logged into your Google analytics, giving you clear view on which topics/content are helping people the most. Because it is a beta version the data is not visible in the Control environment yet. We have plans to make the data available in the content dashboard at a later stage.

A few points:
  1. This is available to ALL users, both logged in and anonymous users
  2. It’s available in every Q&A topic and is logged separately per topic
  3. The response (Yes or No) is only visible to the user, e.g. only he/she will see what response they have given to the topic

Pilot customers needed

Before we're making this feature publicly available to all branded communities we want to run a short pilot program with 1 or 2 of our customers.

The pilot program is simple: we'll activate topic helpfulness on your community and start measuring data. Data will be sent to your Google Analytics and is visible from day one. After a while we'll discuss results, thoughts and feedback.

Interested in becoming a pilot customer for topic helpfulness? Please contact me via a Private Message.

We will keep you posted here on inSpired on improvements and new milestones, if you have any questions or feedback let us know.

23 replies

Kat
Contributor ⭐️⭐️
September 3, 2018
Great news! 🙂
Contributor ⭐️⭐️
September 3, 2018
@ErikT, @Florian , @bjoern_schulze, @Sivan, @Stéphan Lam : I think this would be very interesting for you as well😃
ErikT
Contributor ⭐️⭐️
September 3, 2018
@ErikT, @Florian , @bjoern_schulze, @Sivan, @Stéphan Lam : I think this would be very interesting for you as well😃

Great news! This feature will really help us find and improve existing topics. 😃
Stéphan Lam
Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
September 3, 2018
Nice!
~ Stéphan
Sivan
Contributor ⭐️⭐️
September 3, 2018
This is great!
Yoeri
YoeriAuthor
Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️⭐️
September 3, 2018
Great to see your first responses, thanks for reaching out to us to join the pilot program. I'll contact you via PM in the following days to discuss the details 🙂
Group Product Manager, Customer Communities
Ditte
Helper ⭐️⭐️
September 5, 2018
Very cool! Can the text be changed? Rather than the topic itself being helpful, I'm interested in knowing if the marked answer was helpful.
Currently rocking the Sonos Communities
Kenneth Refsgaard
Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
September 5, 2018
This is great news! We've always wished we had a community 'helpfulness' metric similar to how we report on our knowledge base.
www.sonos.com/community
Ditte
Helper ⭐️⭐️
September 5, 2018
Oh, and can it be moved to be part of the topic post? At the moment it has the size and position of an advertising bar, that most people ignore.
Currently rocking the Sonos Communities
Kenneth Refsgaard
Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
September 5, 2018
Oh, and can it be moved to be part of the topic post? At the moment it has the size and position of an advertising bar, that most people ignore.

Interesting point Ditte. I have to admit that having just opened this topic three times in the last few minutes, my brain 'skipped' the new voting section every time. Only just went back up and noticed the buttons.
www.sonos.com/community