Author: Toby Beresford

Product updates – December 2020

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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

Image generation now available on all Bronze plans

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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.

RISE PRODUCT UPDATE – SEPTEMBER 2020

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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.

Rise Product Update – July 2020

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This month’s update continues our theme of tidying up the scorebook settings panel.

ADDED

  • Created a new settings section called “Expansions” – added Teams, Custom Fields, Badges and Insights to this section.
  • Added new scorebook categories for fundraising and gaming
  • Also added link to the infinite gamification book to the welcome email

MOVED

  • Split up Share section into three sections – display, notify and export
  • Moved the collective goal feature out of the chrome theme settings, made it a platinum feature and gave it its own settings page. It now works on other themes too.
  • Moved follower settings from join settings into its own settings panel
  • Moved link to list of followers from reports to expansions
  • Renamed TV theme as Big Screen TV theme

FIXED

  • Fixed bug with view bulletin as a table
  • Use term scorecard in metric settings page for channel visibility

REMOVED

  • Removed unnecessary sub nav on TV settings and Widget settings

June Product Updates

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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


Infinite Gamification: Motivate your team until the end of time

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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 on the rise

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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.

ScoreBooks

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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:

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Breaking this down further:

IN

Into your ScoreBook goes:

  • your list of Users (whether they be people, organisations or things (website URLs))
  • These Users can optionally be grouped into Teams
  • For each User you add their latest Score Entries

PROCESS

The ScoreBook will process the users and score entries according to the Score Algorithm that you set in the ScoreBook Settings.

OUT

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:

  • LeaderBoards to show the ranking tables either by user or by team
  • User and Team ScoreCards to show the breakdown of the score for each user or team.
  • User and Follower Notifications to send out the latest score news to subscribed users and followers of your ScoreBook.

 

 

rise.global launches free score card software as a service plan

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Hi everyone

We’re launching our free plan today! Woo hoo!

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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.

Introducing rise.global free plan

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.

Introducing transparent pricing

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.

What you get when you upgrade to the paid tier

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.