Bragger Badges - Telligent Marketplace - Marketplace

Engage Your Community Members through Social Recognition

An engaged community is a healthy one. As community managers, we are constantly looking for ways to keep increasing member participation. We do this by offering great content, useful tools, simple communication channels, easy information sharing, as well as the ability to connect and self-promote. Since the rise of FourSquare and Xbox Live's social recognitions features, providing a way for your community members to earn achievements or badges has been extremely popular. The reason for this is because people really enjoy strutting their stuff in a game of friendly competition. People simply love showing the clout they have earned in a community by having a wall of trophies or a scoreboard that showcases their achievements. To deliver on this desire, Couto Solutions has developed Bragger Badges, the perfect social recognition add-on for Telligent Community! By adding this Couto Solutions' Building Block, you can:

Create an Unlimited Number of Achievement Badges
- Each badge can have a unique name, description, and avatar/icon/photo
- Badges may have 1 to N requirements associated with them, such as:
  - You must have 25 friends
  - You must have answered 5 forum questions
  - You must have commented on 3 blogs
  - You must have filled out your biography
- Every badge will have a total points value:
  - A badge's total points are made up of the sum of all point values on all requirements associated with a badge
  - Each badge requirement has a built-in value that may be static or calculated depending on how the requirement was developed
- Community members must achieve all badge requirements to earn a badge
- When a badge is earned, the total points on that badge are also earned
Showcase achievements in "The Great Wall of Badges"
- "The Great Wall of Badges" displays the achievements that can be earned in the community
- By hovering over a badge, users get a quick summary of its details
- Click on a badge to drill into the "Badge Profile" and see how many point the badge is worth, who has earned the badge, and what required to earn the badge
Visit the "Leader Board"
- By visiting the "Leaderboard", users can see how they rank in the community
- Your members can view the competition and see what they have to do to take the lead
- Users can lead the community in the following 3 ways:
  - Badge Leader - Lead by having the most earned badges in the community
  - Point Leader - Lead by having the most points in the community
  - Total Achievement Leader - Lead by having the greatest combination of badges and points
Show Case Your Community Member's Stuff
- Add the Bragger Badges Profile Widget to your Telligent Community profile to make it easy for community members to see how people ran
- Link to the Bragger Badges' profile badge page to provide place for community members to showcase the badges they have earned
- These Bragger Badges profile enhancements highlight the achievements of your community members providing them with a virtual trophy case in your community