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CarolineS · ‎Jan 22 2018

Hm, @BlakeRichardson - I don't want to completely separate out Tips & Tricks, because wouldn't we then need a separate "Tips & Tricks" board for each product / technology area (security, switching, etc)? I think the best option within the community platform is to use tags or labels. Probably labels are best because there are nice filters for labels (on the right side of each board's landing page), and also you can subscribe to labels. So, you could get an email update whenever someone posted, say, a new security-related tip.

CarolineS · ‎Jan 22 2018

Hi @BlakeRichardson - Good idea! Unfortunately a radio button like that isn't part of the community platform we use, and we're trying to steer away from customizations. What we *can* do is set up Labels in each discussion board; topic posters can select if a particular thread is a "tip" (or some other better term) - see screenshot. Community members can then filter to see just the Tips. What do you think of this idea? Cheers!

CarolineS · ‎Jan 21 2018

@PhilipDAth - glad it arrived safely! It always blows me away when packages arrive in New Zealand before they make it to the east coast of the US!

CarolineS · ‎Jan 19 2018

Hi @Uberseehandel - Yah, non-admins aren't allowed to use "style" attributes - unfortunately, I can't lift this restriction. I am hoping someone more clever than me can figure out how to make the twitter icon display on the same line. But, in the meantime - I'll update the example code to something that actually works! Cheers!

CarolineS · ‎Jan 19 2018

Notice the section at the bottom of this post with my name & job role: Caroline S | Community Manager, Cisco Meraki | @merakicaroline Found this helpful? Give me some Kudos! (click on the little up-arrow below) That's my community signature. It shows up below each of my community posts. One neat thing about signatures is that when they're updated, they update across all of your posts. How do I get a signature? You can easily set up your own community signature. Click on your name in the upper right, then "My Settings" From the My Settings page: Personal > Personal Information Fill in the Signature field and click Save. Go check out one of the posts you've made and you'll see your signature at the bottom. What should / shouldn't be in my signature? Feel free to add your name, a link to your company and/or social links, and a small bit of personal or professional information. You can also politely request kudos. Any other links or text must respect our community guidelines and should not be used as advertisement. Feel free to reach out to me (via this thread or private message) if you need further clarification. You can also use simple HTML tags (a, strong, br, span/div w/ a "class" attribute, etc); users at "Here to help" status or above get a bit more freedom with HTML tags/attributes. I want a signature that looks just like yours! I'm flattered! Here's the code (obviously, use your own name, role, and social link). Caroline S | Community Manager, Cisco Meraki | <a href="https://twitter.com/merakicaroline" target="_blank">@merakicaroline</a> <br > <i>Found this helpful? Give me some Kudos! (click on the little up-arrow below)</i> Cheers!

CarolineS · ‎Jan 17 2018

If you're interested in following a particular topic or an entire board, you can subscribe to either the RSS feed or email notifications. Additionally, email notifications can be set as daily or weekly digests if you prefer to receive updates in batches instead of immediately. Here's how to do it! Subscribe to a topic Go to the topic you're interested in (example), then click the "⋮ Options" menu at the top. From this menu, you can select either "RSS Feed" or "Subscribe" (for email notifications) Subscribe to a board Go to the board you're interested in (example), then click the "⋮ Options" menu at the top. From this menu, you can select either "Subscribe" (for email notifications) or "Subscribe to RSS Feed" Set subscription preferences You can manage how frequently you receive email updates from your subscriptions: From your name in the upper-right corner, click "My subscriptions" Click the "Notification Settings" tab Scroll down to the "Email Notifications" section and select your preferences Now you'll never miss a message! 📬

CarolineS · ‎Jan 17 2018

@MichelRueger I won't be in Barcelona (I wish!!), but I'm sure you'll see plenty of Meraki folk there. Be sure to show off your new Meraki swag (it should arrive in time!)

CarolineS · ‎Jan 16 2018

@NFL0NR wrote: will trade swag for Stuffed Quahogs @NFL0NR - I just had to look up "Quahog" - picture below for the edification of others. Stuffed Quahogs sound delicious. Can they be mailed to San Francisco? 😀 Photo Credit: Yachting Magazine

CarolineS · ‎Jan 16 2018

Drum roll... we have some winners in the Networking Resolutions Community Challenge! Meraki Favorite With 21 kudos from Meraki employees, @MichelRueger's resolution to create a Meraki-API-powered cat door wins the Meraki Favorite prize. Congrats, Michel! Stay tuned for a PM for me about your prize — and we hope to hear an update about the cat door soon. Complete with a video, perhaps? Image credit: @MichelRueger Community Favorite With 11 kudos from community members who aren't Meraki employees, @PhilipDAth's resolutions win the Community Favorite prize! Philip summarized his entry as: In short, I want to use my influence to internally restructure Meraki to make it a better company when dealing with its customers - and write tools to help Meraki network administrators. Congrats, Philip! MORE swag will be flying across the Pacific towards New Zealand soon. Thank you to everyone who entered this month's Community Challenge, and to everyone who voted! Let us know how you are doing in fulfilling your Networking Resolutions on this thread — and stay tuned for next month's challenge.

CarolineS · ‎Jan 16 2018

Voting is now CLOSED in the Networking Resolutions Community Challenge; we'll announce the winners shortly (and if you're really eager, you can figure it out yourself 😀 )!

CarolineS · ‎Jan 15 2018

It's your last chance to vote in our second Community Challenge! Vote for your favorite Networking Resolutions by giving them kudos ( ) before 10am PST TODAY (Tuesday, January 16). Peruse the entries and vote now!

CarolineS · ‎Jan 11 2018

BTW - While writing this blog post, I made an exciting discovery - there's such a thing as a "vertical ellipsis" (⋮); HTML code &vellip; Cheers!

CarolineS · ‎Jan 11 2018

Voting is now open in our second Community Challenge! Vote for your favorite entries by giving them kudos ( ). The entry with the most kudos when voting closes on Tuesday (January 16) will win Meraki-branded swag. There are two separate categories: Community Favorite (the most kudos from community members who are not Meraki employees) and Meraki Favorite (the most kudos from Meraki employees, as designated by the next to their name). Peruse the entries and vote now! Feel free to share your favorite entries on social media, with your Meraki account rep, with your mom, etc. You can link directly to a specific entry by using the "Permalink" option available from the ⋮ menu: Link to a specific contest entry with a Permalink May the best (and/or most entertaining!) entries win! P.S. Even @tnight, our GM, has entered the Community Challenge! As a Meraki employee, he's not eligible to win, but give him some kudos anyway 😀

CarolineS · ‎Jan 10 2018

It's not too late to tell us your Networking Resolutions for a chance to win some swag! Submissions close at 11:59pm PST tonight, and voting begins at midnight. Submit your Networking Resolutions today!

CarolineS · ‎Jan 9 2018

Hi @KJ - Welcome to the community! Sounds like you may be trying to sign up for CMNA, our training for partners. If you are a Meraki end-user rather than a partner, you should take a look at CMNO - https://meraki.cisco.com/webinars/cmno Cheers!

CarolineS · ‎Jan 8 2018

Photo Credit: @Mr_IT_Guy Firmware updates, port security, rewiring that rat’s nest in the network closet — it’s a new year and we all have projects we’ve been meaning to tackle. Will 2018 be the year we get them checked off our list? Let us know your top New Year’s Network Resolutions in our second Community Challenge, and you just might win some Meraki-branded gear. Your fellow community members will vote for the winning entries, so be creative and make your entry stand out! How to enter Tell us your Network Resolutions in a comment on this blog post before 11:59pm PST on Wednesday (January 10). Creativity is encouraged! Add photos or videos, tell a funny story, etc — anything to set your entry apart. (Update 11:59pm PST Jan 10: Submissions are now closed; please vote by giving kudos to your favorite entries!) How to win Once submissions close, voting begins, and lasts until 10am PST on Tuesday, January 16 (UPDATE: Voting is now closed! See the announcement of the winners). We will be selecting 2 winners: The Community Favorite — chosen by you, our Community members. Cast your vote by giving kudos ( ) to your favorite entries. The entry with the most kudos from community members who aren't Meraki employees will win! The Meraki Favorite — the entry with the most kudos from Meraki employees will win the Meraki Favorite prize. Feel free to solicit your contacts at Meraki to vote for you. 😉 Good Luck! 🎉 🎇 🎆 🌟 The Fine Print Limit one entry per community member per Community Challenge contest. Submission period: Monday, January 8, 2018 at 6am PST through Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 11:59pm PST Voting period: Thursday, January 11 at 12am PST through Tuesday, January 16 at 10am PST Prize will be a grab bag of Meraki swag with value not exceeding USD50.00 Complete rules and eligibility can be found here.

CarolineS · ‎Jan 3 2018

Here's the full RSS feed of all posts: https://community.meraki.com/yuzje69629/rss/Community You can also get them for a category (e.g. Product & Technology Discussions😞 https://community.meraki.com/yuzje69629/rss/Category?category.id=enterprise (category.id is whatever comes after the ct-p in the category's URL) Or for an individual board (e.g. Security / SD-WAN😞 https://community.meraki.com/yuzje69629/rss/board?board.id=security (board.id is whatever comes after the bd-p in the board's URL) (Don't ask me why "Community" and "Category" are capitalized in the RSS urls while "board" isn't. 😛 And, yes, the URLs are case-sensitive. I just checked.) Cheers!

CarolineS · ‎Jan 3 2018

It's a new year, and that means it's Members of the Month (MOTM) shout-out time. December 2017 Meraki Community Members of the Month @PhilipDAth 123 kudos @MilesMeraki 41 kudos @Mr_IT_Guy 32 kudos @MRCUR 22 kudos Both @PhilipDAth and @Mr_IT_Guy have a perfect four-month-in-a-row MOTM record! Thank you to both of you for your continued contributions; the community wouldn’t be the same without you. We welcome @MilesMeraki and @MRCUR back to the MOTM club; congrats, you two! We have some great swag this month; hope you like it. As always, thank you to EVERYONE who has contributed to the community. Happy New Year! Terms, conditions, & eligibility info for the Member of the Month prize

CarolineS · ‎Dec 27 2017

There were three winners drawn, @kaztech - https://community.meraki.com/t5/Community-Announcements/swagplease-winners/ba-p/7024 Thanks for entering, and better luck next time!

CarolineS · ‎Dec 27 2017

Swagplease contest is over! Maybe we will do it again sometime soon though... 🙂

CarolineS · ‎Dec 22 2017

@Welles - hooray! Glad we finally resolved the gnome-sending saga to complete your collection. The Epic Saga of Sending Welles a Gnome by CarolineS Once upon a time, there was a gnome. The gnome lived in a nice place called Meraki HQ. One day, he decided to leave Meraki HQ to explore the IT forests in the Meraki Community. A kindly man named @Welles found him. Welles was very excited to find him, because Welles already provided a comfortable home for several other gnomes. The gnome wanted to go visit Welles in order to see his brothers. He asked the friendly lady at Meraki HQ to send him to Welles' desk. However, the trip in the mail was rough. The gnome did not enjoy it! Luckily, the gnome had a bit of backup at Meraki HQ, and again he was sent through the mail. This time, he was well-protected. However - one of his brothers had snuck into the package! Clever MR gnome had made the trip instead! Welles already had an MR gnome, and, while he was happy to provide a home for this new MR gnome, he really wanted a yellow switch gnome. So the lady back at Meraki HQ tried again. This time, switch gnome arrived at Welles' desk unbroken. Hooray! Switch gnome loves his new home, and he is happy to be with his brothers just in time for the holidays! The End.

CarolineS · ‎Dec 22 2017

I'm so excited about this one! I just found out you can use your computer / tablet / phone's default emoji set within posts on the community. Here's a little winter / holiday themed medley to illustrate: 🎁 🎊 🎉 ☃️ 🤶 🎅 . 🎄 Windows 10: Use the touch keyboard as visually explained here: http://blog.getemoji.com/emoji-keyboard-windows Mac: Press Control–Command–Space bar: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201586 iOS / Android: Just click on the 😀 on your keyboard to access the emoji keyboard

CarolineS · ‎Dec 21 2017

@KB - thanks for the kind words! There's no phone app for the community, but the site is mobile-responsive, so just bring it up on your phone's browser! Thanks to everyone else for the kind words too!

CarolineS · ‎Dec 21 2017

Today marks the Meraki Community's 4-month birthday! When we launched on August 21, little did we know how quickly the community would grow or how fantastically helpful its members would be. We're so proud! Some stats to share: 3,627 members have signed up 1,025 topics and 4,860 replies have been written 1 gnome has hidden Our little community has gotten so big! Still just an infant though... Happy Holidays, everyone!

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