Recognize the contributors to your community through customizable badging and recognition. You can recognize event organizers, speakers, hosts, content authors, and custom contributors on their profiles and a new Contributor Page.

From the dashboard, you can switch on or off the visibility of badges, rewards, the contributions listed on profiles, or the entire feature.

By turning this feature on, all contributions and/or any enabled badges will appear on contributor profiles and on the contributor page (if enabled). To do this:

By turning this feature on, no badges or contributions will appear on any profiles. To do this:

There are now two modes to the contribution feature.

This mode is available in all tenants and allows you to recognize contributors with badges, a contributor board, and some level of customization.

From the Contribution settings page, you can opt to enable the Contributors Page and the Community Card:

This mode includes the badges feature plus the ability to assign points and offer a rewards center to your members. This mode is an additional element - reach out to the Gradual team if you'd like to add this module.

From the Contribution settings page, you can opt to enable the Contributors Page and the Community Card, plus enable a rewards center.

You can configure which badges to show by following the steps below:

If the Contributor Page is enabled, and the badge board is visible, you'll need to hide that board so the badge can be hidden.

Make that change in Contributors → Contributor Board → Customization → Toggle off the visibility of that board:

You can choose to show only badges at the top of the members' profiles, and hide the contribution list of events, content, etc. that the member contributed to.

Navigate to Contributors → Contributions Settings and under Preferences toggle 'off' the 'Visibility of the contributions list in a member's profile' feature

You may want to show contributions and recognition of the events and content by contributors without showing badges.

By turning off the visibility of all badges, you will be able to list the contributions at the base of profiles sans badges.

Contributor module visibility must be turned on first if you would like to showcase your contributor page.

The following are the steps to enable the contributor page:

Contribution counts are listed beside the badges at the top of the member profile and on the contributor page.

A detailed list of published events (past, current, and future) that the member has contributed to are all included at the base of their profile, along with any published content pieces they have authored.

If a contributor is associated with an event or piece of content that is space-restricted:

To get you started, there are four badges available to enable, customize, and use in your community. The badges will appear at the top of the member’s profile, and on the contributor page, and include the name of the badge, description of recognition, and the contribution count.

Each badge below can be enabled, or disabled, and the text and graphics can be customized to fit your branding and language. Learn more about the customization of these badges below.

Currently, the connection to the contributors and relation to their role cannot be changed, so ‘Host’ will always relate and show on meeting room hosts if enabled, and cannot be changed to Panelists, etc. If you'd like to build a custom badge, follow the steps in this section below.

This badge relates to and acknowledges event organizers. Organizers are the individuals who are listed in the Organized By section in General Info of a published event in the dashboard.

This badge does not acknowledge or show on the profiles of admins who create events in the dashboard or any individuals listed as organizers of unpublished events.

This badge relates to and acknowledges hosts in meeting rooms and roundtables. Hosts are the individuals who are assigned 'Host' in the dashboard setup of published meeting-type events, meeting rooms within published livestream event agendas, and roundtables within published livestream event agendas.

This badge does not acknowledge or show on the profiles of those assigned 'Panelist', hosts of unpublished meetings or livestream events or hosts of community-level roundtables.

This badge relates to and acknowledges speakers in published events and video content pieces. Speakers are the individuals who have been added as one of Speakers for your published event or for a piece of your published video content in the dashboard. The image below shows a person added as Speaker in the video content edit page in the dashboard.

Speakers must be linked to a member account to be acknowledged with a badge and contribution. The following image shows the speaker named Thomas Li is linked to a member account, whereas Theo Hellman is not.

This badge relates to and acknowledges content authors. Authors are the individuals who have been added to the list of Authors on a piece of published blog or resource content in the dashboard.

Just like with speakers, authors must be linked to a member account to be acknowledged with a badge and contribution. Authors are included in the community Speakers list and you can link accounts there.

You can now add up to 46 custom badges to your community to recognize your members. These badges can be assigned to any members of your community and can appear at the top of the member's profile, and on the contributor page. You can fully customize the badge graphic, name of the badge, and description of recognition to fit your branding and language. Learn more about building custom badges below.

You can customize elements of the present, and system badges, and add your own badges to the community contributions.

This is the graphic that appears as a small icon in the profile, and in the pop-up that appears when a user hovers over the badge.

Choose or upload the best graphic to fit your branding.

If uploading a custom graphic, we recommend it be a PNG format, 360x360 px, up to 5 MB in size.

The title and description appear on the contributor’s profile and in the pop-up when a user hovers over the badge.

Name your badge and add a description to your badge, according to your community's branding:

The maximum length of the badge name is 25 characters and the maximum length of the description is 75 characters.

If you need to edit this contribution at any time, you will navigate to their profile and make the necessary edits.

See your contributors and their activity from the dashboard in the Contribution Logs tab.

Search for certain contributors or sort and filter by badge type, contribution or log.

The Contributor page showcases the contributions of your community and features your top contributing members on a designated page.

Your members can now earn and accumulate points for contributions made to the community, and redeem those engagement points for rewards. Customize the contributions tracked, badges offered, and redemption values so your community members are celebrated for their engagement and rewarded with valuable items related to the community.