use word press to create a gamified community

Use WordPress to Create a Gamified Community of Practice

Dr. Bill Brantley, PMPbill@billbrantley.com

Billbrantley.com

The Challenge

“So, you keep talking about knowledge management and collaboration and why we shouldn’t use shared drives/email for storing our documents and sharing knowledge.”

What’s Your Big Idea?

Knowledge Management System

• Online and accessible from anywhere • Role-based security• Discussions with the ability to mine those

discussions• Groups• Document sharing • Wiki• Project Management• Analytics and Reporting

Drupal as a KMSDrupal

• Role-based logins• Groups• Discussions• Wiki• Document Repository Front

End• Analytics Front End

Alfresco• Document Repository• Records Management

BIRT• Analytics• Reporting

SolrSearch

MySQLSupports Drupal

PostgreSQLSupports Alfresco

LAMP

Tomcat

Can You Make It Technically Simpler?Easy to Administer?

And Add GAMIFICATION?

Why Gamification?“Gamification is a business strategy which applies game design techniques to non-game experiences to drive user behavior.”

http://www.gamification.org/

1)Increase engagement2)Increase sharing3)Increase collaboration

The Big 3

WordPress as the KMS

Plus a lot of plug-ins1) Akismet2) BadgeOS3) BadgeOS Badge Stack Add-On4) BadgeOS Community Add-On5) bbPress6) Better WP Security7) BuddyPress8) BuddyPress Rate Forum Posts9) Formidable (optional - $)10)Jetpack by WordPress.com11)Limit Login Attempts12)myCred13)SG CachePress (optional - part of hosting package)14)Wiki (optional - $)15)WPMU DEV Dashboard (optional - came with Wiki)16)WP Project Manager17)WP Publication Archive18)WP Video Posts

BuddyPress.org

Install This First!

Jetpack.me

Need An Account on WordPress.com

Badgeos.org

Install BadgeOS Badge Stack For Examples

myCRED.me

Make Sure To Enable BuddyPress and BadgeOS Hooks

Configuring BuddyPress (1)

Configuring BuddyPress (2)

Configuring BadgeOS (1)

Configuring BadgeOS (2)

Configuring BadgeOS (3)

Configuring myCRED

Configuring Better WP Security

Configuring Widgets

Easy Updating

WARNING: Set up automatic backups of your WP database.

Collaboration Features (1)

Collaboration Features (2)

Collaboration Features (3)

Collaboration Features (4)

How Do I Start?

Then, Get a Copy of This Presentation

bill@billbrantley.com

bill.brantley@gmail.com

Get them used to the WordPress KMS and then, give them the Drupal KMS