Karma Points: Harnessing Karma for Good Deeds and Sharing

Karma Points
Harnessing Karma for good deeds, knowledge sharing and gamification
© 2014 GamEffective. all rights reserved to BizEffective. Confidential 1

Nirvana is NOT guaranteed

altruism

We all want to be part of a better society

We’d like people to do good deeds regardless
of whether they will be reciprocated

Pay it forward

Creating a pay it forward economy

The Karma App is a way of institutionalizing
advice, making it simpler to access and having
the results shared with everyone. The app’s
stated goal is to serve “Aleph’s
entrepreneurial community, focused on
helping the members of this community help
each other.”

“Pay-It-Forward Economy –We help each other out of
the goodness of our hearts, but sometimes incentives
can be useful to get the ball rolling. That’s why we’ve
added a pinch of gamification to Karma. Helping others
and referring them to others will award you with Karma
points. Karma has a leaderboard, where we celebrate
the most helpful members of the community…”
From the Aleph blog

Karma Gamification

Giving yourself karma points

Gamifiying “karma” – just like using
gamification for enterprise knowledge
collaboration – can drive more adoption and
result in more knowledge sharing.

Think about Karma when people don’t know
each other – drive behavior by providing
recognition and other forms of gamification
satisfaction

7 Rules for gamifying karma

(1) explain karma – what it is and how to get it
- in the on boarding process.

(2) Encourage users to both give and receive
– not just ask questions but also answer, not
just help but also be helped

(3) Encourage referrals and introductions –
spread karma around

(4) Provide immediate karma rewards

(5) It’s ok to use a leaderboard with
karma points
leaderboards are counter productive sometimes, especially in competitive
environments, but not here….

(6) Make karma points redeembale

(7) But don’t necessarily say how they are
redeemable and for what

GamEffective: games affect behavior
• Gamification: achieve better performance through game mechanics
• Gamification 1.0: leaderboards, badges, points
• Modern gamification: narrative based & rich graphics, no-code
integration

Games are about engaging narratives
we’re the 1st to do this

Cloud Based Enterprise Gamification Platform
-
Improve business outcomes
Using game dynamics to drive mass engagement
Performance
improved
by 10-15%
Employee
engagement
improved
by x3

The evolution of Gamification
2012
Enterprise
Gamification
2006
Gamification
Apps
2014
Gamification
2.0
2008
Community
Gamification
2002
“Gamification”
coined

Working across apps | clear calls to action
No Code Integration

Subscribe to our blog
www.gameffective.com/blog
info@gameffective.com

Karma Points: Harnessing Karma for Good Deeds and Sharing

Recommended

Recommended

More Related Content

Similar to Karma Points: Harnessing Karma for Good Deeds and Sharing

Similar to Karma Points: Harnessing Karma for Good Deeds and Sharing (20)

More from Centrical

More from Centrical (14)

Recently uploaded

Recently uploaded (6)

Karma Points: Harnessing Karma for Good Deeds and Sharing