The system can award badges for community engagement and activity, or you can build custom badges that are assigned to members for community-specific honors or acknowledgments.

Currently, up to 50 badges, including 46 custom badges, are allowed per community.

If you'd rather build and assign badges on the members' profile avatars, check out the Profile Badges feature.

System Badges

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.

Organizer

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or show on the profiles of admins who create events in the dashboard or any individuals listed as organizers of unpublished events.

Host

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This badge does not acknowledge or show on the profiles of those assigned 'Panelist', hosts of unpublished meetings or livestream events or hosts of community-level roundtables.

Learn how to assign Hosts and all of their controls and settings here.

Speaker

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 the Speakers for your published event or 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.

Learn how to add Speakers here.

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.

Learn how to link Speaker profiles to member profiles here.

Content

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.

Learn how to link speaker and author profiles to member profiles here.

Custom Badges

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.

Badge Customization

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

Badge Graphic

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.

Navigate to Contributors → Badges.
Select the Edit icon on the badge you'd like to customize.
Select the Change button, and select a Preset option or upload a custom graphic.

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

Badge Name and Description

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:

Navigate to Contributors → Badges.
Select the Edit icon on the badge you'd like to customize.
Enter the name in 'Badge Name' and the description in 'Badge Description'.

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

Assigning badges to members

Navigate to the Member's Profile.
Select the Contributions tab.
Select the 'Log Custom Contribution' button in the upper right.
Select the contribution from the available (visible) badges, confirm or update the date and if there is a count associated with the contribution, add the total count.
Save your work and the badge will now appear on that member's profile.

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

Controlling the Visibility of Badges

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

Navigate to Contributors → Badges.
Find the badge you would like to configure the visibility of, and click on the Edit icon.
Click on the on/off button under Visibility to set the visibility and select Save.

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:

Show Badges Only [Hide Contributions List from Profile]

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