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:
This month’s update continues our theme of tidying up the scorebook settings panel.
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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, 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’re pleased to announce that we’ve introduced a new score collector for Kred Influencer and Outreach scores. Kred’s objectives are to offer analytics for anyone’s social media use and performance. Kred’s homepage is currently saying that they are revamping their service and Kred 2.0 will be available from 11th June 2018.
The Kred scoring rules are available here.
The new Kred score collector will be available for any rise.global subscriber that uses our Bronze price package.
Many of rise.global’s subscribers that are currently managing and running “Power 100” ScoreBooks that use Klout scores may change to using Kred scores, as Klout scores will not be available from May 25th 2018. This will inevitably mean that there will be some movements in the “Power 100” ScoreBooks, as Klout and Kred each have their own proprietary algorithms for calculating “social media influence”
The providers of Klout scores, Lithium Technologies, yesterday announced that they are stopping the Klout service including the provision of Klout scores from 25th May.
Rise.global has been offering scores from 1 to 100 based on social media activity for over 5 years. Our unique flexible scoring-engine allows you to quickly spinout your own klout-alternative social media influence score for each of your members. Consider using our Twitter score collectors to create your social media influence score based on your members twitter data – their posts, likes, mentions, replies, followers. Just like PwC have done so with their #PwC Global Power 100. If you’d like to create a similar score card, follow our guidance in How do I create a score card to track Twitter metrics?
Our Power 100 ScoreBooks used to use Klout scores but now use Kred scores.
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.
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We love our themes here at rise.
That’s why we’ve gone ahead and freshly baked a new theme for you to use in 2018.
It’s called “boxes” and it will display everyone in a beautiful box grid.
There are some whizzy additional features that will drive increased engagement and dwell time too:
We’ve also added some features that are only available to registered followers – this helps build the follower community around your ScoreBook. Don’t forget you can have as many followers as you like.
To demo the new theme Nick and I have been busy launching a few ScoreBooks, here are some great examples for you to check out, right now:
The Boxes theme is available to all users.
Next Tuesday we will be running our first ever webinar on “Score Science” – the art and science of using a personal score to change behaviour.
Popularised by FitBit™ this personal analytics technique is now being used by organisations across the globe including PwC, IBM and the United Nations.
In this intro-level webinar (limited to 100 attendees) Toby Beresford, rise.global founder, will explain the approach, share real world examples and outline the benefits of using a single score to drive behaviour change.
By attending you will learn:
This webinar is free to attend. You are encouraged to ask as many questions as you like!
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1600 (GMT) / 1100 (EST)
DATE:
30 JANUARY 2018
Please note the webinar uses zoom.us – for best experience download and install zoom ahead of time.
Update, here’s the webinar recording:
Twitter. Are you an excitable user, where Twitter is your first point of contact to the world, the priority when sharing your companies’ news, an integral part of your influence and marketing?
Or is Twitter is a job on the list of things to do, a tricky and time consuming ‘must’ when trying to spread your personal or corporate brands… you might not get it – but you know it’s somewhere your brand has to make an appearance.
Whether pertinent news drips from your fingers or you deliberate over every character, as soon as you press ‘Tweet’ your lovely shiny bit of news and influence tumbles along in a sea of others’ news and influence.
Take. A step. Back. Can you see your bigger influence trajectory on Twitter? Do you know what you want to do in 2018? Are you lost in a sea of insight statistics that you haven’t checked for weeks, trying to reassemble your maths GCSE to see if you’re doing any good?!
Here are some Twitter New Years resolutions to start 2018 a bit more confident that all your effort is getting you somewhere.
Our desire to see how well received each tweet has become is a natural addiction. It is a case of ‘variable ratio reward’ – we never know how well each post will do. If, however, you’re just counting number of likes and retweets without asking the bigger picture questions ie. are these likes from regular engagers? Has the tweet resulted in the behaviour you want? How many of these tweets will result in the behaviour you want? Then you are guilty of only tracking Vanity Metrics and not Clarity metrics. To track Clarity metrics, you must ask not only, ‘is this Twitter data useful?’ but also ‘What can I do about it?’ – Tracking what you are doing on Twitter in parallel to useful data about who and why are people engaged can give depth and refinement to future activity.
Dashboards can be overwhelming. They give you stats you didn’t even know you needed, all dressed up nicely in picture graphs so that in order to answer the question ‘Am I doing ok on Twitter this week?’ It takes, a pen, paper, brainspace and some time. All of which we’re short on right now. Try something easy and simpler next year:
Rise.global consolidates the data you want into one simple score, that you can access easily and check every week via the app online, email or twitter. By just checking your score, you can quickly see and keep track of how you’re doing on the data you actually want to track. You choose the metrics, Rise fetches the data and puts it into an easily understandable format and if you did have that time and brainspace, you can always dig down into each metric individually to see how it’s going.
We can all learn from others, especially others in the same sphere as our brand. Look at how others are using Twitter innovatively and ask the same Clarity questions as you ask yourself. How many regular engagers do they have? And what are they doing to keep them there? Add to and shape your strategy and then use Rise to track what you’re doing to keep you accountable to the goals you set yourself. Rise can also track the same metrics in your competitors. Just add your competitors accounts to your ScoreBook and you can see their scores with yours, and again dig down into their metrics to see where they are gaining success.
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The New Year, New You approach only works when you’ve done the ground work to keep it accountable. Set up tracking and attainable goals in easy to manage chunks so you don’t give up in the short term, don’t forget to track the Clarity metrics first and keep listening to others in your sphere. To get your easy to track score or build your ScoreBook of competitors or colleagues, sign up for your free trial here.
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