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!
You can check what badgeville have done to gamify sharepoint here http://badgeville.com/news/announcements/badgeville-microsoft-sharepoint-launches
i have an idea …
Lets call it the “User Adoption Treasure Hunt”. It’s main purpose is to guide new users through the features of SharePoint. In effect it’s a quiz that exists on their MySite. The quiz asks them questions that rely on them finding out how to do stuff with the new SharePoint beast. For example,
1. Name a staff member works in Finance and likes stamp collecting and lives in Washington ?
2. Paste a link to a Word document (stored in SP) that contains the terms ‘Treasure Hunt’.
3. Find out who Les Dennis works for using the org browser.
4. Add a document called ‘My Treasure Hunt’ into your shared documents (and paste a link here).
5. You have a task in your task list, complete it.
6. Tell you colleagues using the status update that you are doing the Treasure Hunt.
7. Fill out your profile.
You get the idea, you could also add a video for each mini task to show the user how to do it. If the user passes the quiz, then get some points! We could do this as a custom bit of code.
So I think, I will go for “Whats Hot” game where I will ask people to post about tips and tricks on SP2013 features which are really useful on a day to day basis to solve their business challenges. It will be a good way to understan how they want the system to work and whats important to the users. Probably, give some gifts to top 3 users who post useful tips which are rated best, based on their reputation and participation too.
@Mark,
I believe having a reward system for completing tasks early and some sort of penalty (point deductions or similar) for being overdue would be helpful. We have a chronic problem here with people not completing tasks in a timely manner. The attitude seems to be that since there are no “consequences” for not meeting deadlines, it doesn’t matter. SO I’ve been thinking on this as well.
In his workshop at #SHARE2013 in Atlanta in April, Dux Raymond Sy shared his SharePoint Jeopardy game. I thought it was really neat. Not sure how well it would go over with senior staff and execs here, but I like the concept.
I’ll look and see if I can find the link he posted in Yammer and add that information here for anyone who is interested.
-Robin
