The ‘Reputation Point‘ functionality in SharePoint 2013 provides an essential building block for a great GAMIFICATION strategy within your organization. So this week, Thuan‘s question is based around gamification…
What type of game would you like to implement in SharePoint to improve adoption and collaboration of your end-users ?
(for example, Football prediction game: every user has its own account (Active Directory) to predict the result of a game in a Premier league 2013-2014 and after the game, if their prediction are correct then they get points. We will have some gifts for top 3 scores ;-))
Win-an-eBook Wednesdays is a small three day contest that we hold every week. The Prize? An O’reilly eBook for your choice! Furthermore, if you win, you also get the chance to ask the community whatever question you want and be the judge for next week’s contest!
This week’s judge is Thuan winner of last week’s contest!
You have until Sunday, May 26th (10pm GMT) to answer this question!
This is great. I would hold a scavenger hunt for SharePoint. I would have a laundry list of items to find and activities to complete for each user. This process would education users on how SharePoint works and were things are located on the intranet. Additionally, I would include things like having users Google topics to questions to get them used to self-troubleshooting and solving their own problems. I like having users empowered by their own successes. It is a win-win! 🙂
The important element in the game process is to make users understand that it is NOT a game, but about education and participation. A process of education by doing and through that process they see the benefits of the product not features. The users need to see how SharePoint can benefit them and their daily life and not just another piece of software they have to deal with. So through a process of education they learn what SharePoint is; how SharePoint works; where it can help them become more efficient workers; when to utilize which object (list, library, site, etc.); and eventually a grassroots evangelism of the user community by the user community. Empowering the users to help make themselves better, faster, more productive, etc. is a strong element in user adoption over having management shove SharePoint down users throats.
Scavenger hunt topics may include:
- Create a My Site
- Share content in their My Site
- Use the SkyDrive Pro feature
- Locate their Team Site
- Libraries
- Add a document to a library
- Create an alert on a list
- Add a file over the 50MB limit to see what happens
- Check-in/check-out a document from a library
- Perform versioning on a document
- Navigation
- Navigate the top-level menu
- Navigate the Quick Launch
- Permissions
- Request access to a site
- Navigate to a restricted site to see what happens
- Editing
- Add content to a page
- Add a web part
- Use the BDC External Content Type
- Perform a search and do some filtering
- Collaboration
- Add content to a discussion board
- Social
- Get a badge
- Review you reputation
- Like a document
- Make a mention about someone
- Create a tag
- Subscribe to an activity feed
- Follow another user
