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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

Yoeri
YoeriAuthor
Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️⭐️
March 20, 2019
A different set of emoji was requested here as well. We're happy to see that this feature does its work. We don't have short term plans to work on different emoji for content helpfulness, we do have plans to add the content helpfulness feature inside our Embeddable widget. When we'll work on this we might update the look and feel of the existing three emoji, but the faces will stay in place.

We have considered adding multiple emoji sets in the configuration options whilst developing this feature (so that you could pick the set that fits your need). This hasn't been developed due the lack of evidence that this was really needed. Our research concluded that the existing 3 emoji were a good fit (and universally accepted as a way to give feedback).
Group Product Manager, Customer Communities
timcavey
Helper ⭐️⭐️
August 17, 2020

Hi @Yoeri and co, 

 

Is there anyway to export ‘Topic helpfulness' data? The only mention of it that I can find (I think), is the ‘score’ in the ‘Content Dashboard’, ‘Popular topics’ section…...

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Yoeri
YoeriAuthor
Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️⭐️
August 17, 2020

Hey,

We push ‘Topic helpfulness’ data to Google Analytics from which you can generate exports (.csv / .pdf). See Where can I see the results in this article for more information: 

 

Group Product Manager, Customer Communities