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What is Rise, What's unique about Rise and who can use Rise.
Toby Beresford's article on 16 reasons why your gamification design sucks is quoted in this discussion of the use of gamification in the app Codebashing
Article looking at good & bad use of gamification.
Toby Beresford, founder of Rise, a consultancy specialising in workforce “success tracking”, says that cash rewards are counterproductive because they turn gamification into work and employees just focus on what they have to do to earn the prize to the exclusion of everything else. He also stresses that such strategies work best when they are voluntary and designed for the benefit not of the boss but of the employees, letting them track their own performance.
outnewsglobal.com
Interview with Mark Gossington – Partner, Financial Services, PwC
Mark mentions his success at using Rise to engage the LGBTI community
Leaderboards recommended by Toby Beresford as a B2B content marketing strategy
cimunity.com
Stay in the Game with Games
Magazine interview regarding the use of gamification in the events industry. Quotes Toby Beresford of Rise.board.
International Confex 2013 in London. The focus was on the event’s social media presence – and the idea to reinforce it using simple gamification concepts.
Specialising in exactly such applications, the UK company Rise created a leader board, Confex’ attendees were featured on the Twitter board in real-time ranked according to tweets. They could move up by using a combination of event hashtags instead of just tweeting #confex2013, and even re-tweets of influential Twitter users resulted in better rankings. Was there a prize? None at all. Nevertheless – or perhaps precisely for that reason? – the outcome was 5,000 tweets from 1,400 attendees and an Event Tech Award for “Best Use of Social Media”.
“Once you offer a prize you run into problems,” says Rise CEO Toby Beresford. “Gamification works best if it reinforces the intrinsic value of an activity.” In other words: The game itself has to be fun. If you have to be “bribed” into taking part, something must be wrong with the underlying concept. For this reason, says Beresford, there is no case that is universally applicable. “We have seen successes,” says Beresford, “but they are based on many different aspects.” The individual target audience is of crucial importance - good gamification concepts are personalised, “there is no one size fits all”.
uninflux.net
UN Social 500 Project Inspired by Our Hackathon
UN Influx team highlight the UN Social 500 project on the hackathon blog.
Tim Hughes outlines how a Rise leaderboard can turn from being a way to stealthily track prospects to an open board that creates an instant niche community.
brighton.ac.uk
Mahara UK Conference 2014 Case Study
How Rise was used successfully at the Mahara UK conference to engage delegates.
totalcustomer.org
Gamification: Your ticket to brand loyalty
technologyadvice.com
What Gamification Gurus are made of
techhub.com
Leaderboarded wins Events Award
Coverage of Leaderboarded's win of the ETA - event technology award
Rise mentioned (leaderboarded) as a new genre of apps providing better feedback at work.
Leaderboarded takes over running of PeerIndex groups.
How giving employees more feedback can encourage better performance and a leaderboard can provide a 'pat on the back'
successfulworkplace.com
Sorry your success stories are stale
Combining gamification tools with social workflow for big enterprise productivity gains.
Quicker feedback loops and more objective measures to reinvent the classic performance review process. Quotes from Toby Beresford CEO Leaderboarded
10 tips including: involve your team at the planning stage, decide on variables and weighting with the team, trial it first in stealth mode and more...
Interview with one of the Capgemini employees who was gamified. Sample below:
S: What sort of impact did gamification have on employees?
O: This was a very well thought-out strategy as we wanted to raise awareness about our brand and company to all employees taking the quiz. The impact in the office was pretty big. For a whole week the only thing people had on their minds was getting to number one on the leaderboard.
Here’s an interesting tool worth noting:
Leaderboarded: A tool for companies to create their own online leaderboards powered by social data.
gamification.co
Capgemini Gamifies 120,000 employees with Leaderboarded
Coverage of the Capgemini project in the main Gamification blog
Initial coverage of the Capgemini gamification initiative.
Katie Piatt on gamifying the FOTE2012 (Future of Technology in Education) conference with the use of Leaderboarded.
"Then, my favourite element was the use of Leaderboarded.com to pull all the scores and Twitter usernames from the google spreadsheet into the playfote12 leaderboard. It's a simple way to create your own professional looking leaderboard.
"Configuring the link between the spreadsheet and leaderboarded - easy!
"Leaderboarded also lets you customise and style your leaderboard. So I swapped in some great Tour de France jersey graphics (thanks again Marion) so we could show them on the board and also have physical stickers the players could wear to match their rank."
Results of the digital influencer leaderboard at the Media Playground event
Gamification theory was put to use on the participants of the conference with the help of Toby Beresford’s newly released web application Leaderboarded. The software pulls information from a variety of online social media sources (primarily Twitter) to compile self-updating leaderboards that rank users according to parameters set by the board creator. It was in the interest of GSUMMITx organisers to have participants tweet about the event, and so a leaderboard was displayed on large LCD screen, with a list of event attendees ranked by the frequency with which they tweeted the #GSummitX hashtag. In practice the competitive element certainly seemed to motivate the crowd, and a lively commentary on proceedings continued throughout the event.
