Comments on: Driving User Adoption…Socially | SharePoint and Badges

By: Jay O'Hara

Jay O'Hara — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:01:19 +0000

Great Idea Daniel!

User Adoption is one of the largest hurdles we face with SharePoint implementations. I’ve long thought about rewards and have used this approach with success.

By: Daniel McPherson

Daniel McPherson — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:14:32 +0000

Drop me an email: [email protected], for a PoC I might just have something for you that works.

By: Chris Quick

Chris Quick — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:12:52 +0000

Thanks for the update. I wish it were a little sooner since we are piloting a project with SharePoint 2010 that would be an ideal candidate for something like this, but we have to demo next week part of the solution.

However, it has provided some ideas for my team as we begin working through the implementation for one of the proof-of-concept sites we will be launching. While it would be better to push “badges” to the user profile, we’re going to attempt to use “badges” in a site. Hopefully this will provide some additional value to our business users. This post couldn’t have come at a better time for us! Thanks!

By: Daniel McPherson

Daniel McPherson — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:37:36 +0000

Custom code, we should have something on that front for the community for around late August.

By: Chris Quick

Chris Quick — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:12:11 +0000

This is a very interesting idea. Is this being accomplished through third party code or using out of the box SharePoint 2010 functionality?

By: Ty

Ty — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:18:35 +0000

You hit the nail on the head. Users adoption is easiest when the user sees the value right away (usually not the case as it is change) or when it is a game / competition.

By: Daniel McPherson

Daniel McPherson — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:04:48 +0000

Thanks for the feedback folks, glad you enjoyed the article, its certainly a fun space to be playing around in.

@Greg, will check out the video, thanks for the link.
@Isaac, hope you are well buddy, stay tuned on that one, hoping we can get something out for people to play with by late August.
@Michael, I think it will become common pladce too, at least in subtle forms. We should have a chat about it sometime.

Thanks folks!
Daniel

By: Michael Gannotti

Michael Gannotti — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:29:18 +0000

Daniel, great post! Really like the concept. I think adoption of these sort of identifiers that we see commonplace in the social media world make sense. Great job spelling it out here.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:13:14 +0000

Dan,

Great article! I think you’ve really hit on something. Potential hurdles I see are specifing the rules, and getting buy in for “badges”. Its a great way to drive user adoption. I look forward to seeing the implementations you come up with over at Zevenseas.

/Isaac

By: EndUserSharePoint

EndUserSharePoint — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:06:43 +0000

First phase of the project we are using tags and 5 star ratings. I would LOVE to implement badges and such, ala SharePointOverFlow. They have a beautiful system. Who knows… maybe we can convince them to come on over