Member Categories, available on The Community Plan or higher, are a great way to connect your members around a shared interest like profession, specialty, or role.
Enable Member Categories
To enable Member Categories, go to Network Settings > Premium Features > Member Categories, and toggle the feature “On.” Once you've enabled categories, you can set up the type of category that's most relevant to your members.
There are 18 options for Member Categories: Interest, Specialty, Company, Title, Profession, Role, Identity, Expertise, Discipline, Cause, Affiliation, Stage, Child's Age, Start Month, Condition, Diagnosis, Spectrum, and Industry; Members may choose one Member Category.
Each Member Category has a different prompt:
Interest: “Meet members with the same primary interest by sharing yours”
Specialty: “Meet members with the same primary specialty by sharing yours”
Company: "Meet members from the same company by sharing yours"
Title: "Meet members with the same title by sharing yours"
Profession: “Meet members with the same primary profession by sharing what you do”
Role: “Meet members with the same primary role by sharing yours”
Identity: “Meet members with the same identity by sharing yours”
Expertise: “Meet members with the same primary expertise by sharing yours”
Discipline: “Meet members with the same primary discipline by sharing yours”
Cause: “Meet members interested in the same primary cause by sharing what you care about”
Affiliation: “Meet members with the same primary affiliation by sharing yours”
Stage: “Meet members who are at the same stage by sharing yours”
Child’s Age: “Meet members with children of the same age by sharing yours”
Start Month: “Meet members who started at the same time by sharing when you started”
Condition: “Meet members with the same condition by sharing yours”
Diagnosis: “Meet members with the same diagnosis by sharing yours”
Spectrum: “Meet members like you by sharing where you are on the spectrum”
Industry: “Meet members in the same industry by sharing yours”
Add a Custom Dropdown List
After you select your type of Member Category, you can add options for your members to choose from. For example, our own list in Mighty Community prompts members to add their Profession, so we’ve added:
Artist
Activist
Author
Brand Builder
Community Manager
Educator
Entrepreneur
Filmmaker
Marketing Leader
Musician
Not-for-Profit Leader
Online Business Owner
Social Impact Entrepreneur
Social Media Expert
YouTube Creator
Writer
As a member starts typing, they'll see your dropdown options. If none are relevant, they can add their own.
When you switch the Category silo (the name of the Category e.g. Company), the old Category List options do not get deleted. In order to remove the old Category List options, you will need to manually remove the options in Member Category settings.
See Members and Activity by Member Category
You can see Member Categories on the Community Plan and up with People Explorer.
This feature will visually show member profiles grouped by Member Category and is shown on the Global Members tab and in Spaces on the Member feature.
To learn more, check out this article.
You can find the Member Category on the profiles inside of your Mighty Network.
When clicking on the Member Category, it will take you to a list of others with that same category.
To find the list of all member categories in your Mighty Network, click “See other Interests”
If you would like to keep this list more accessible, you can use the URL of this listing page at YourNetworkURL/segments (ie: “https://modern-creator-spaces.mn.co/segments”)
You can also use that link for one of your custom navigation links!