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This is a presentation I gave at a MeetUp in the SF Bay Area in February 2013. As a community manager, I shared my best practices and talked about my plans to gamify the community. We are now live with gamification on the SAP Community Network! Check it out at scn.sap.com/welcome.
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Gamify your Community Laure Cetin, Community Reputation Manager, SAP Community Network February 2013
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Gamify your CommunityLaure Cetin, Community Reputation Manager, SAP Community NetworkFebruary 2013

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The SAP Community Network (SCN)

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2,000,000+unique individual visitors each month

270,000+members have ever contributed

9,200active bloggers

5,000+discussion threads per day

400+discussion topics

230+Countries & territories

9,300,000total messages

The Social Network for SAP Professionals

30,000Wiki pages

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Content Is King

Technical & Business Content

Troubleshooting:

Discussion Forums

Storytelling:

Blogs

Collaborating:

Wiki

Downloading:

Software, Tools… and

Moderation!

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A High-Tech, Professional Community

A 10-year old, mature community:

External

Diverse

Organic growth

Need to encourage quality contributions

A professional, high tech community:

It takes time to contribute content

It is about building a reputation as an SAP Professional

Cheating/Gaming the system is not good!

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SCN Architecture (Jive)

Customer Relationship Management

ABAP Development

Master Data Management

Current Structure = Topic Based

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Community Management Tips

Orchestrate, don’t control Listen (forums, social media) Respond Build personal relationships

Ensure diversity Make it interesting

Bring expertise Ensure high quality of content

Bring dynamism and passion Advocate for your community

Add here…

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What is Gamification?

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Definition

Gamification is the use of game-thinking and game mechanics in a non-game context in order to engage users and solve problems. Gamification is used in applications and processes to improve user engagement, ROI, data quality, timeliness, and learning.

Source: Wikipedia

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Not Just a Hype

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016$0

$500,000,000

$1,000,000,000

$1,500,000,000

$2,000,000,000

$2,500,000,000

$3,000,000,000Gamification Software Market - $2.8B by 2016

By 2014, a gamified service for consumer goods, marketing and customer retention will become as important as Facebook, eBay or Amazon, and more than 70% of Global 2,000 organizations will have at least one gamified application.

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What Gamified Companies Are Saying (source: Bunchball)

• 40% increase• 30% increase• 19% increase

Increased Unique Users

• 100% increase

• 85% increase from 20M

• From 3 per visit to 4-4.5

IncreasedPage Views

• 2-3X increase• 85% increase• From 3.5 min.

to 4.5 min.

Increased Time on Site

• From 0 to 2.4M• From 0 to

50,000• 30% of visitors

registered

Increased Registered

Users

• 47% increase in associated sales

Increased Product

Revenue

• 40% increase in ad sales

• 40% increase in ad sales

Improved CPM/CPV

Rates

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Current Use of Game Mechanics on SCN

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Points

Lifetime points Never expire Don’t represent current activity

12-month rolling points Represent current activity Expire – this is perceived as unfair and demotivating

SCN points are not redeemable

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Status and Badges

Active Contributors: 250+ points in the last 12 months 4 levels (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum)

Top Participants leaderboard

Topic Leader contest

Moderators ~1,000 members Volunteers Guardians of quality

Mentors ~100 members Influencers nominated by the community

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Rewards and Recognition

Quality content featured prominently on SCN

Member of the Month recognition

Access to systems, information (SAP Mentors)

Participation in events (SAP Mentors)

Recognition at events (SAP Mentors, SCN Topic Leaders)

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I Am On the SCN Home Page!

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I Am the SCN Member of the Month!

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I Am an SAP Mentor!

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I Am an SCN Topic Lead!

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A Gamification Platform and a New Program

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A Gamified SCN Experience

Onboarding

Collaboration

Recognition

Competition

SelfExpression

Altruism

Badges StatusLevels

ExpertiseReputation

Real-time positive feedback reinforces good behavior

Real-time negative/corrective feedback: learn and adjust

Transparency provided to members who know where they stand

Goals to keep members motivated

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Gamification Strategy

Recognition and Reputation

PointsBadges

“My” spaces

Space status

Activities/Behaviors

Leaderboards

Leverage gamification to motivate community

members to take actions beneficial to the community and SAP

Reward participation and achievements with points and badges.

Let people shine in leaderboards, where we feature them for achievements of point levels and missions.

Help members grow their reputation as an

expert in a topic

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How to engage and achieve reputation:

SCN-Level: Lifetime points across SCN Levels determined by lifetime points

Missions: Start with a few, add more with time Make missions progressive to

encourage and motivate Site-wide and space-specific

missions

Topic expertise in spaces: Lifetime points by space Leaderboards in spaces and across

SCN

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Reputation and Gamification Mechanics

User Profile My business card A summary of my achievements An overview of my expertise

Missions Fun, engaging Address all personalities in your community Point economy:

– Simple vs. hard

– Low value vs. high value

– Low point reward vs. high point reward

Badges Role-based badges: Mission-based badges:

– Represent expertise

– Represent what type of person I am

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Looking Forward

Transformation of the high-tech industry: Impacting human interaction Helping Sales and Support

Gamification can be serious Improve moderation tools and controls Implement reputation mechanisms similar to stackoverflow.com

Concept of portable reputation Ability to port point status, badges onto other platforms Very valuable for independent consultants or marketers

Mobile!

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May 2013 Update

We are live!

Visit scn.sap.com/welcome

Visit my profile and take a look

Read: The announcement blog The SCN Reputation Program Overview

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Thank you

Contact information:

Laure CetinCommunity Reputation [email protected]@LaureCetin


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