New Year, New You – why not try our new embeddable leaderboard theme “Marley”.
This is an embed theme that supports unlimited columns and metric sub groups. Perfect for those more sophisticated programs that need a bit more column space.
Heya, it’s been a bit of long time coming as we started this product update back in November – so a one month sprint turned into two. There was an interim release but I’ve saved the notification until today.
There are lots of visual changes in this update which may be noticeable to your audience – please check your scorebooks for any breaking changes and edit accordingly. Overall you shouldn’t notice a great deal of change save that it’s all a bit tidier!
ADDED
Added a field to add your LinkedIn Profile URL
Added crumb trail to all themes for easier navigation
Added about text below the header on all themes except Claro
Added “this is latest bulletin / not latest bulletin” switcher
New different terms of service for players and administrators
REMOVED
Removed About page from all themes except Claro
Remove ability to pick about page as home page.
CHANGED
The displayed scorebook name above the leaderboard now includes the bulletin name after it. e.g. from “Platforms” to “Platforms Week 4”. This change will affect the embedded widgets as well.
Change Followers to Subscribers
Changed Join us to just Join
Meta tag changes and tighter canonical URLs
Now shows the leaderboard page number
Updated new player profile image size
Updated with new splash image size for Chrome and Riverbox
BUG FIXES
Fix bug which meant you couldn’t edit your website URL
Fix bug so movement views hide the player image if chosen
Make sure view bulletin as a table refers to players rather than entries.
Support to allow custom field values to be passed through to board description and into theme fields – this allows you to have store custom images (e.g. banner adverts) and display them in theme or in the description.
Fix bug where it was showing the wrong player scorecard on old bulletins
Fixed bug player profile images not showing on their profile
We’ve made a Christmas change: image generation – the ability to generate a social media friendly top 10 or top 100 leaderboard image, previously only available for Silver subscriptions and above is now available on Bronze plans.
Don’t forget you can also generate images for On the Rise too:
Creating images is a great way to spread your scorebook far and wide. You can even put it on a mug with our “Mug this!” button.
Cosmetic changes across the whole site and app to keep the width of the user interface to a maximum 1760px width, no matter how wide the viewing monitor.
The exceptions to this are:
We’ve made the following tweaks to the product after this month’s sprint. Please keep us reminding us of changes you’d like to see in the product.
ADDED
Support for hiding player profile pictures on the embed widgets
CHANGED
New scorebooks use a standard rise caret logo instead of the old Simeon Jeffrey ones from 2013!
Tidy up embed sharing interface to offer both Iframe and Javascript embed approaches
FIXED
Fix dashboard false positive issue on manual entry data sources
Fix bug with images not appearing correctly on naked embed theme.
Corrected error message if no Twitter account connected
Fixed display issue where pagination button for Previous page was mashing into the next page button.
This month’s update continues our theme of tidying up the scorebook settings panel.
ADDED
MOVED
FIXED
REMOVED
We’ve pushed our June updates to the Rise product as follows:
Added
Added ability to hide player profile pics on tabular and chrome and claro theme
Changed
Split Appearance settings into icon and logo, theme and description settings
Moved custom fields to advanced features settings
Moved teams settings to advanced features settings
Moved invite new users via email to the Users page
Moved Players Per Page setting to under themes
Renamed Administrators section as Access control
Renamed Admin Notifications as My Email Notifications
Renamed Score Collectors as Data Collectors
Renamed Score Entries as Data Entries
Renamed Users as Players
Removed
Removed Admin home page wiki feature
Removed ability to change default sort order on boxes theme
Remove word Board from Icon and Logo page
Removed Private Score Only Privacy option
Removed scorebook social channel feature for the about page
Toby Beresford’s new book on Infinite Gamification is now available to buy as a paperback or Kindle version on Amazon!
For anyone planning on using Rise the book is a must-have as it leads the reader through the steps to planning and executing an infinite gamification program – including leaderboards and scorecards.
It is available at all Amazon stores. For convenience the links to the US and UK Amazon sites are below:
US: Amazon.com
UK: Amazon.co.uk
Infinite Gamification, distinct from finite gamification, is a gamification designed to last, potentially forever.
A classic example is the English Premier League (or any football league) – the annual competition continues every year, effectively gamifying club football keeping audience, players and sponsors engaged.
For organisations, infinite gamification programs keep teams continuously improving week in week out.
rise.global is an infinite gamification platform that smooths the ‘final mile’ – display of the scorecards and leaderboards, notification of changes to individual scores.
We look forward to talking more about infinite gamification in the future.
We’ve introduced a new term today – “ScoreBook”. We’ve done this to make it easier for new Risers to understand the difference between the software (the ScoreBook) and the output of the software (Leaderboards, Scorecards etc.)
A ScoreBook is the hub for your scoring program on rise.global. Here’s a diagram that explains what’s going on:
Breaking this down further:
Into your ScoreBook goes:
The ScoreBook will process the users and score entries according to the Score Algorithm that you set in the ScoreBook Settings.
Out of your ScoreBook come “Score Bulletins” – snapshots of the ScoreBook for a specific time period (e.g. this month, last month, this week, last week, today’s score and so on).
Each Score Bulletin can include:
