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.
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Support for hiding player profile pictures on the embed widgets
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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.
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We’ve pushed our June updates to the Rise product as follows:
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Added ability to hide player profile pics on tabular and chrome and claro theme
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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:
Hi everyone
We’re launching our free plan today! Woo hoo!
We’ve been on a fabulous digital journey together over the past 6 years. It really is incredible that what started out as a way to manage leaderboards online has transformed into a sophisticated score card platform that is used worldwide to track personal growth.
Last year, thanks to our customers, we engaged over 400,000 people on rise.global, each spending an average of 25 minutes with us (It really is twenty five minutes, this is not a typo!). In terms of the modern attention economy – content served on rise.global is gold dust.
In the stats and what you’ve told us, it’s clear that rise.global is offering a unique service – not just keeping and sharing the score but doing so in a transparent, auditable and privacy friendly way.
We love hearing from our customers and here’s a sample of recent quotes:
“I love the simplicity of the service and the global exposure that being part of rise.global brings.” – K.P.
“Excellent community and knowledge sharing” – S.E
“I like the motivational aspect of the weekly rankings and I think it’s a good way to stay on top of my own online activity” – M.H.
“Rise’s trackers are relevant and transparent” – L.R.
Thank you for your feedback! We are humbled and honoured to be on this journey together.
Now as we look to the next phase of our journey, we’re making a big change to the way we price our service – opening it up to more users around the globe.
The rise.global free plan offers you score cards for up to 100 users, you can generate and store up to 10 score bulletins – that might be 10 weeks or 10 months, it’s up to you. You can share the scores on your own rise.global page, via email and even on a TV leaderboard.
In the free plan, you can track up to 3 metrics of your choosing, and we’ve even bundled some premium connectors for you to try out – twitter follower/following count and twitter list membership.
We will be supporting the free plan by hosting adverts on the rise.global hosted ScoreBooks and email notifications.
The rise.global free plan has some real power attached to it. We look forward to seeing what you create.
At the same time we are aware our pricing model has been a bit opaque. So we’re introducing three paid pricing plans based on the services you use. Bronze, Silver and Gold. You can see the details of features you get with each on our new Pricing page.
Of course the paid tier will have some super awesome features that you can’t get for free.
The main benefits of moving to a paid plan are the ability to remove ads from your ScoreBook and full ScoreBook automation – including automatically embedding the leaderboard on your own website, notifying your users via Twitter, more users, more metrics, more stored bulletins and more sophisticated reporting.
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This has been an awesome journey together so far and we’re looking forward to the future.
Do tell us what you think of our new plans. Please do share this news on your own blog or on social media – now it’s free, we’re relying on you to let managers you know about the tool.
Happy Scorecarding!
ps. All existing paid rise.global ScoreBooks created prior to today, will stay at the same price point, no change planned there. However we will (finally) be implementing hard user limits on your existing plans, it’s something we’ve meant to do for ages but has taken a while to implement.
The pace of change in our digital world is super fast.
Change might mean new business processes, new tools or simply a renewed focus on performance in a key area.
With change coming thick and fast, that means change management budgets are increasingly stretched – more change initiatives but the same pot of cash.
That means change managers have a problem: there sometimes isn’t the time or resources to run a full scale change management program with face to face training and above the line communications campaigns.
In digital change there are no 3 month long lead times, changes can sometimes be quite literally overnight.
For change managers that means they need solutions to accelerate their change management programs.
Many are turning to automation to help with the heavy lifting.
We are calling these new tools #ChangeTech. Examples include rise.global the score card platform and kinetik, a digital card game. They cost less than a face to face coach or trainer and can be deployed globally within hours instead of weeks. Perfect for organisations with staff distributed across the country and the planet!
Using a rise.global ScoreBook for your change program requires little more than a connection to the internet, a list of staff and access to activity data.
Via the principles of success tracking and score science, a change manager designs a score that embodies all the desired behaviours of the change.
The score is then automatically calculated each week for each user of the program and delivered to them as a personal scorecard. The scorecard shows their progress in achieving the objectives, the change over time, and crucially, their relative ranking with peers.
One organisation that has already trail-blazed rise.global as a ChangeTech tool is data-driven marketing and loyalty analytics firm Aimia.
Nathalie Maslia, Global Organisational Change Management Consultant at Aimia said, “With the increased digitisation of business, change tends to happen faster and more often across enterprises. This can mean that, when there is a need for change, the budget to communicate and bed down change is tight.
“As part of our transition to Microsoft Office 365 across Aimia, we used a rise.global ScoreBook to communicate adoption of key O365 and Sharepoint behaviours to our staff. Each participating staff member received a personal score showing their progress in achieving the key behaviours we had identified within a short period of time. What could have taken months in terms of awareness and adoption was achieved in weeks.
Another advocate of using automation to accelerate change management is Mike Quindazzi, Managing Director at PwC:
“I am keen to see business leaders adopt social media to build their digital presence and engage in the marketplace. Sharing insights in ways that builds trust is critical to the future of relationships and business development. Leveraging scorecards and leaderboards in ways that help “automate” part of the change management process can be an effective and productive way to aid the process. Adding this element of gamification helps to increase not only user adoption but also expertise on use of the platforms. “
In this growing age of automation it’s no surprise that change management itself should have automated tools to help it do it’s work. We hope to see more #ChangeTech innovation in due course.
McKinsey & Co. research showed that successful execution of change management can boost ROI on an initiative by 143% – now with ChangeTech solutions like rise.global that automate some of the process, more teams will be able to use change management as they seek to embrace and thrive in a world of rapid digital change.
To learn more about rise.global automated solutions to accelerate your next change management initiative, contact us or book a call directly with Toby Beresford via LinkedIn today.
Nudge theory is an idea that uses psychological concepts to explain why people behave in certain ways.
According to Nudge theory, it takes only small environmental changes, reinforcement or using individual’s inertia to affect people’s behavior. One example, related to eating behavior, is the attempt to encourage healthy eating. Supermarkets simply placed arrows on the floor pointing to the fruit and vegetables, which had the effect of increasing sales of healthy food.
This theory also has a variety of applications to the workplace.
For example, the UK government wanted its citizens to enrol in pensions. Thus, it created an ‘opt out’ system, in which it did not force people to enrol, but obliged people to contact the government if they wanted not to enrol in a pension saving plan. Only 10% of people did.
Another strategy for ‘nudging employees’ is creating new spaces in the workplace, as employees may find it difficult to change their behaviour in a familiar setting. Thus, if you do not want your employees to congregate next to the water cooler, you can change the environment around the cooler, e.g. make it smaller, and thus this behaviour may no longer be desirable. You do not have to force your employees to behave in a certain way, but can subtly ‘nudge’ them in a way that will make your employees more effective, and your business more successful.
Nudge theory was originally suggested by Thaler and Sunstein in their book Nudge. You can find out more about both academics and many more behavior science experts by visiting the “Behaviour Explorers” leaderboard on rise.
If you want to find out more about how Nudge theory can help your business, see the infographic below created by PsySci.
This is a guest post by Marcus Clarke of PsySci. Thanks Marcus!
