Interesting and fun content is the must-have of any community. As the community admin, the content you post is the thing that will engage your members and make them come back to your community again and again.

Viber is full of great tools that will make you a superstar admin who creates super fun, engaging content.

Grab their attention

Announce your topic with a Shout. Shouts can be used to introduce a new topic, make an important announcement that your members won’t be able to miss, or as the focal point of a set of messages. Shouts turn any ordinary text message into something eye-catching and colorful.

Add a Shout to your message now: Tap the GIF+ button > find Shouts > choose a background for your message > and go!

Go live!

Give your community that “live” touch and send a 20-second Instant video message. It’s quick, it’s spontaneous, and it shows what is going on RIGHT NOW. Record a short video directly from the community chat screen, and share it instantly. For example, show yourself buying the ingredients for your next cooking masterpiece, or record your quick commentary on the latest community discussion.

Record and send an instant video: Tap and hold on the record button > record your video > release the button to send.

Pro tip: Regular videos sent in the chat will play automatically (without sound), bringing the chat screen to life! Give it a try!

Be interactive

Your members want to be more involved in the community, and Polls are a great way to achieve this. Ask your members a question, and have them vote by tapping on the button next to a set of answers.

Pro tip: The 90min Fanvoice community regularly uses polls on top of pictures, videos and GIFs, to get members’ views on the most recent football news.

Add a poll: Tap the polls button > ask your question > add options > and create. Watch your members vote in real time as the count on the poll goes up.

Ask me anything

When you really want to hear from your members, open yourself up to Hidden-number chats and encourage them to write to you in private. These chats are safe, all phone numbers are hidden from everyone in the chat.

These chats have been used by some communities for “Ask me anything” or “Q&A” days. Community members send their questions, and they are answered in the chat.

Pro tip: The FC Barcelona community uses Hidden-number chats for members to send in questions to their “Q&A with a Soccer Star” days.

Turn on Hidden-number chats: Open the community info screen > turn ON Receive private messages.

We’ve given you the tools, now’s the time to get out there and be that superstar community admin you always knew you were!

New to communities? Check out our other blogs in this series:

• Get started with your very own Viber community!
• Your time to shine: Manage, grow and engage a Viber community!
• Community Insights: Measure the success of your community
• Master your community: New ways to add members & more

This is how some of the most popular characters in literature would have chatted. We present… classical stories, which would have ended differently if only the characters had Viber.

Nowadays, we can’t imagine our everyday lives without smartphones and the Internet, and what would we be if we couldn’t constantly share our emotions in chats with our loved ones? These forms of communication have become mandatory in the really short period of time since the end of the 20th century. And imagine what would have happened if these technologies were available hundreds or even thousands of years ago? How would they change the outcome of some of our favorite stories, and how would technology have ruled over the lives of some of the most popular characters in literature?

Here we take a look at some examples of how Viber, one of the most popular communication apps we have now, could have rewritten literary history, if only these beloved characters had access to it:

Romeo & Juliet, 1597

The troubled outcome of the famous drama of Verona is known to almost everyone. Although written correspondence was a popular form of communication back then, especially when people were experiencing the need either to hide their feelings from others or were planning a secret mission, the possibility for end-to-end encryption, with that extra level of privacy, would have been a great asset to everyone.

Creating a Secret chat

Imagine Juliet sends Romeo a disappearing message:

Oh, Romeo! Father Lawrence and I have found a way for us to escape together! I will take a poison thus everyone would think I were dead, but don’t worry, I will wake up as soon as the effect expires! Let’s meet tonight at the Capulet crypt to plan it all my love! What say you? I can’t wait to see thee!

If there was Viber during Shakespeare’s time, the young lovers could have been fully aligned on their secret mission, escaped from their feuding families, and lived happily ever after.

Robinson Crusoe, 1719

Crusoe was the victim of a shipwreck accident in a storm in South America, 40 miles from the shores of the Orinoco river, that changed his life forever. Crusoe landed on the Island of Despair, where he managed to survive in the wilderness, by making his own hunting tools. Imagine if a man on a lonely island had the chance to interact with his favourite football team’s chatbot?

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Being on a lonely island, with no chance of face-to-face social interaction, he would have been satisfied getting the latest Barça news, competing with his friends for monthly prizes and even paying a remote visit to Camp Nou!

With Viber on his phone, this man wouldn’t have been bored for even a minute!

Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798)

The world’s most famous lover managed to give each of his hundreds of women love, admiration, attention and a feeling they were the center of his world. But during his imprisonment and travels around the world, thousands of paramours were left totally heart-broken without the chance to interact with their lover.

Opening a community

Suppose he had opened a Community, an advanced chat without member limitations, to get in regular contact with his female fans and satisfy their hunger for his poems and intellectual quotes. Since he was a worldwide famous lover, women from other countries would have been able to join the Community as well, and understand everything their crush posted thanks to the translation feature.

If there had been Viber around, there wouldn’t have been a single lonely woman back then.

Snow White (By Grimm brothers)

Chased away by an evil queen, the princess flees into the wood where she meets seven dwarfs and starts living happily with them. Every morning they go into the mountains and every evening when they come back home Snow White has their meal ready and their house tidy.

Using polls

Imagine if Snow White could use Polls to ask what they want for dinner:

• Chicken with mushroom sauce
• Vegetable risotto
• Eggs and bacon

With Viber around, she would have saved plenty of time by knowing in advance what her small friends wanted for dinner and they themselves would have been delighted to eat their favorite foods!

Love stories are the same today as they ever were, but the way we express ourselves has changed dramatically. How lucky we are to have Viber in our lives to make it easy to keep in touch, share our secrets privately, and have fun as we do so!

Are you ready to write your story with Viber?  Try it now!

It’s time to celebrate your favorite people in the world – your friends! Whatever way you decide to commemorate the day, it’s important you take a moment to thank your friends for being there for you through thick and through thin. Here are three cool ways Viber helps you engage with your friends, no matter their location!

Send an Instant Video

Miss your bestie? Viber lets you send instant videos to one another no matter how far you may be from each other. Does your friend have a birthday or did they just make an exciting announcement? No matter how long it takes until you see each other again, you can always take a few seconds or minutes to show your friend you care. Trust us – seeing your face will put a smile on their face and brighten their day!

Find the instant video icon to the right of where you type your messages:  and simply hold the icon, record your message and release to send. Easy as 1,2,3.

Open a Secret Chat

Planning a surprise party for one of your friends, or simply need to vent about someone who got on your last nerve? Keep things hush-hush by opening a Secret Chat. While your Viber chats are protected by end-to-end encryption so no one can access them, when you’d like to go under the radar, a Secret Chat is just the ticket!

With Secret Chats, you can set a self-destruct timer for every message in your conversation so that you can express yourself freely, no filters needed. Messages in a secret chat can’t be forwarded and screenshots are either totally unavailable or alerted to you by an instant notification in the chat screen so feel free to send whatever you’d like to!

Express Yourself with Stickers and GIFs

Having trouble finding the right words or simply can’t get enough of our fun stickers and GIFs? There are so many cute friendship sticker packs you can share, including the adorable “THE DOG and friends” sticker pack! Express yourself with stickers and GIFs and make your conversation more fun and colorful!

We’ve mentioned only three of the ways Viber helps you engage and connect with your friends but there are so many others. Make sure you follow us on Twitter to learn more about new features that will help you stay in touch with the people you love most!

If you’re a bookworm and would love to talk about your favorite books without leaving the convenience of your home or library to do so, we’ve got the best Community for you!

While in the past being part of a book club meant having to leave the comfort of your home on a certain day and time in order to meet with fellow book lovers, Viber’s new Community book club enables you to discuss your favorite reads with people from around the world through your phone.

We’ve just partnered with Rakuten’s large online library OverDrive, which hosts its very own podcast, Professional Book Nerds, created by two of its employees, Adam and Jill, who also happens to be a librarian!

In their weekly podcast, the duo discusses and recommends the books they love the most as well as interview authors. Last week, the duo interviewed Viber Product Manager, Ankeeta, to talk about the new book club Community, Viber Communities in general and her favorite reads.

“We Can’t Wait to Share All the Book Love”

As FC Barcelona’s Main Global Partner, our parent company Rakuten has decided to launch the “Goals Beyond the Game” program, allowing fans to pledge for a better future. By making a pledge to one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals created by the United Nations (SDGs), fans will get a chance to take part in the upcoming match between FC Barcelona vs. Real Sociedad!

Pledge to make the future a brighter one

So how do you apply? Pledge a commitment to one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which include fighting hunger, ending poverty and ensuring inclusive and quality education for all. You can also choose to nominate your child as a young ambassador. Children who are nominated must be between the ages of 6-9 years old and between 1.05m to 1.35m tall.

Write to Rakuten here to let them know what you or your child’s sustainability pledge is and what action you’re committed to taking in order to help make the future a brighter one.

Out of all the pledges received by Rakuten, 11 lucky children will get a once in a lifetime opportunity to accompany one of the club’s all-star players onto the field at the same match on May 20th for the FC Barcelona vs. Real Sociedad, the last match of the season! Travel and accommodation are included for both child and parent, so it’s bound to be an incredible adventure!

Alternatively, for those of you who do not wish to nominate a child, you can still submit your pledge and show your support. The best answers will be displayed on the big screen at Camp Nou during the FC Barcelona vs. Real Sociedad match on May 20th 2018, so you could possibly see your name and answer in headlines!

The game is coming up so hurry up and make your pledge by May 6th. Applications here!