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 ;-))
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It is a wonderful question I would say.. May be we can have something like most played vonline games..There will be a particular portal which will record all the games and the respectib=ve points of the users..based on the points any user can move to a higher seed.. We can have winners of various games….
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
Currently gamification is going to depend, in my opinion, of your business users daily activities are rooted in SharePoint. If your users are using SharePoint as a “launching pad” to get to other custom applications, then potentially getting them to adopt SharePoint might be a tough proposition.
Since we use NewsGator, I can say that some of the Gamification is built into that product. Badges can be setup according to social activities, profile completion and other additional tasks. So building a “learn it as you use it” type scenario (almost every game uses this method to get users adjusted to controls, interactions in a new game) is not too difficult.
Recently as part of this, the business raffled off an iPad Mini – selecting only users who had a complete profile setup in SharePoint.
