The Interactive Badge Game

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Use Touchpoint’s interactive badge game to encourage networking among attendees, sponsors and exhibitors. The Leaderboard allows attendees to check progress and see who’s in the lead. Earned badges are also displayed on an attendee’s profile. Participation is always greater than you anticipate. Most people love the friendly competition. You’ll want to give some thought upfront to how you’d like to set up the interactive badge game. Here are some hints, tips and things to think about.

It’s your game; you make the rules.

You may allow attendees to earn badges by checking in to specific agenda sessions and exhibitor booths. You may even allow them to earn a badge by logging in to the app and for taking a survey. It’s your game; you set all the rules.

You’ll want to get folks involved early by having some easy-to-earn badges, most often the Login badge. Then have some more challenging badges to keep them interested. Encourage networking, sponsor interaction, attendee feedback and other conference objectives using this fun, interactive game.

This article covers:

• Designing/choosing Badge Images
• Setting your Badge Rules
• Badge Goal Setup Options: 
  • • Check-in Badges
    • Feedback Badges
    • App Setup/Personalization Badges
    • Networking Badges
    • Other Badges
• Managing your badges
• Promoting the Badge Game

Design Cool Badges

• Create your own Badge Images
  Badge Image Specs: 300 x 300 pixels in .png format.

• Use Touchpoint's Badge Images
  Zip files of all badge images can be dowloaded at the bottom of this article (CLICK HERE).
  • • To view a LIST of all badge image options, click here: SEE TOUCHPOINT BADGES

Set the Rules

1. Select the Badges feature under Related Resources from the left side menu of your Event Dashboard.
   
   
   
   
2. Click New Badge to create a new badge rule.
   
   
   
   
3. Select a goal to associate with your new badge.
   
   
   
   
4. Under Badge Setup, enter a Name and Description for the badge. Then upload a Badge Image.
   
   
   This information will be visible to app users by tapping "Badges" under the Leaderboard button.
   
   
   
   
5. Under the specific Goal Setup for the type of Badge Goal you have chosen, fill in the requested information to set up your Badge Goal. (See examples & explanations below.)
6. Click Save.

Example Badge Goal Setup Options

Check-in Badges

• Attend Specific Events
  • • One example of this is to award the badge when an attendee checks in to ONE specific event:
      
      
      
      
    • Or you could select MULTIPLE events and award the badge when an attendee checks in to ALL of the events you've selected. 
      
      
      
      
    • Or you could select MULTIPLE events and award the badge when an attendee checks in to a specific number of the events you've selected. 
      
      
      
      
• Attend Specific Term Events
  • • Attendees can earn this type of badge by checking in to X number of Events with a specific Group Term.
      
      
      
      
• Attend Differently Termed Events
  • • Attendees can earn this type of badge by checking in to X number of differently termed sessions.
      
      
      
      
• Attend Differently Termed Events within a Group
  • • Attendees can earn this type of badge by checking in to X number of differently termed Events in a specific group.
      
      
      
      
• Visit Specific Exhibitors
  • • One example of this is to award the badge when an attendee checks in with ONE specific exhibitor:
      
      
      
      
    • Or you could select MULTIPLE exhibitors and award the badge when an attendee checks in with ALL of the exhibitors you've selected. 
      
      
      
      
    • Or you could select MULTIPLE exhibitors and award the badge when an attendee checks in with a specific number of the exhibitors you've selected. 
      
      
    • Or you could select Visit All Exhibitors and award the badge when an attendee checks in with a specific number of ANY exhibitors on the list.
      
      
      
      
    • Or you could select Visit All Exhibitors and award the badge when an attendee checks in with ALL exhibitors on the list.
      
      

Feedback Badges

• Respond to Specific Surveys
  • • Attendees can earn this type of badge by submitting X responses to a specific survey. For example, if you have a Session Evaluation survey that is attached to multiple sessions, you can award a badge for submitting X responses to that survey.
      
      
      
      
• Respond to Surveys
  • • Attendees can earn this type of badge by submitting X responses to ANY survey on the app. 
      
      
      
      

• Answer Survey Correctly

  • • Attendees can earn this type of badge by responding to a specific survey with X number of correct answers (optionally allow multiple attempts).
      
      
• Respond to Specific Polls
  • • One example of this is to award the badge when an attendee responds to a specific Live Poll.
      
      
      
      
    • Or you could select MULTIPLE polls and award the badge when an attendee submits a specific number of responses to the polls you've selected.
      
      
      
      
• Respond to any Live Polls
  
  • • Attendees can earn this type of badge by submitting X responses to ANY live poll on the app.
      
      
      
      

App Setup/Personalization Badges

• Log into the App
  • • Attendees can earn this type of badge simply by logging into the app and viewing this event. No other setup is needed besides entering a Badge Name, Description, and Image.
      
      
• Accept Push Messaging
  • • Attendees can earn this type of badge by accepting push messaging on the app when they are prompted on their device when accessing the app for the first time. No other setup is needed besides entering a Badge Name, Description, and Image.
      
      
• Update Attendee Profile
  • • Attendees can earn this type of badge by editing their attendee profile in the app and making any change to their profile (i.e., uploading a profile photo, adding more detail to their profile, etc.) No other setup is needed besides entering a Badge Name, Description, and Image.
      
      
• Favorite Events
  • • Attendees can earn this type of badge by adding X events to their My Schedule in the app. This ONLY applies to apps that are NOT utilizing personal itineraries.
      
      
      
      

Networking Badges

• Acquire Contacts
  • • Attendees can earn this type of badge by acquiring X number of Contacts via the Contact Exchange feature (scanning their virtual business card) on the app.
      
      
      
      
• Send Messages to Different Recipients
  • • Attendees can earn this type of badge by sending a message in the app to X number of different recipients.
      
      
• Post Photos
  • • Attendees can earn this type of badge by posting X number of Photos on the app.
      
      
      
      
• Post Discussion Posts
  • • Attendees can earn this type of badge by posting X number of Discussion Board topics or text posts on the Activity Feed.
      
      
      
      
• Post Comments
  • • Attendees can earn this type of badge by posting X number of comments on Posts or Photos on the app.
      
      
• Like Activity on the App
  • • Attendees can earn this type of badge by liking X number of Posts or Photos on the app.
      
      

Other Badges

• Complete Tasks
  • • One example of this is to award the badge when an attendee completes a specific task from the To Do List on the app.
      
      
      
      
    • Or you could select MULTIPLE Tasks and award the badge when an attendee completes X number of the Tasks you've selected from the To Do List.
      
      
      
      
    • Or you could select ALL Tasks and award the badge when an attendee completes ALL of the Tasks on the To Do List.
      
      
      
      
• View Related Links
  • • Attendees can earn this type of badge by viewing X number of Related Links attached under a specified feature on the app.
      
      
      
      
• Manually Awarded
  • • You may manually award badges to attendees for performing actions that cannot be automatically awarded via the app. For example, if you want to award a badge to an attendee when they show a team member at the info desk their instagram post, you can manually award them an "Instagram Post" badge. No other setup is needed besides entering a Badge Name, Description, and Image.
    • Manually awarded badges must be handled on an attendee-by-attendee basis. There is no option to bulk award a badge to multiple attendees at once.
    • To manually award a badge to an attendee: 
      • • Click on the Attendee's name on the Attendee list in the Touchpoint CMS.
          
          
        • At the bottom of the profile view, select the Badges tab, then click Manage Badges.
          
          
          
          
        • Check the box next to the badge to be awarded, then click Update Badges.
          
          
          
          

Promote the Game

Announce your badge game to your attendees in an email before your event, on event signage and in the app under your Info button. Customize the following text to suit your needs:

Play the [Event Name] Interactive Badge Game!

• Earn badges by attending agenda sessions and visiting exhibitor locations during the [Event Name] Conference!
• Simply download and log in to the conference app. Enter the email address you used to register for the conference and create a password. Earn a badge for logging in!
• Check in to agenda sessions as early as 30 minutes before a session starts and as late as 30 minutes after the session ends or enter the code word you’ll receive during the session.
• Check in to exhibitors or sponsors at the appropriate location by entering the code word that you receive there. The “Check-In” button is located at the top of the event session and sponsor/exhibitor descriptions.
• Size up the competition by checking the Leaderboard periodically to see your own earned badges and to make sure you’re staying ahead of the game!

[Then list your badges and what the attendee must do to earn them. For example:]

Up and at ‘em – Check in at both early sessions

Handyman – Check in at three Developers Toolbox sessions

All Star Vendor – Check in to these three vendor booths: ___, ____ and ______

I Came for the Food – Check in to both dinner sessions