Community Contributions: Badging & Recognition

Recognize the contributors to your community through customizable badging and recognition. Event organizers, speakers, hosts, and content authors can all be recognized with their list of contributions and badges on their profiles.

Learn more about how to change the visibility of the elements of this feature, and customize badges here.

If you’d like to start recognizing your contributors with badges, reach out to the Gradual team to enable this feature.

Contributions

Contribution count(s) are listed beside the badge(s) at the top of the member’s profile and a detailed list can be found at the base of their profiles. 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.

This element of the feature can be enabled and visible without the badges, or you can combine both elements for a robust contributor profile. Learn how to change visibility here.

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

If the member viewing is not part of the Space: it will not list that event or blog, but it will list ‘There are more exclusive events or content’ at the base of the list of contributions to indicate those access-restricted contributions.
If the member viewing is part of the Space: it will list that event or blog.

Badges

In its first phase, the Community Contributions feature has four badges available to enable, customize, and use in your community. The badges will appear at the top of the member’s profile, 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 here.

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.

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or show on the profiles of admins who create events in the dashboard or any individuals listed as organizers of unpublished events.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

Speakers

This badge relates to and acknowledges speakers in published events and in published video content. Speakers are the individuals who are assigned ‘Speaker’ in published events, or added as ‘Speaker’ on a piece of published video content in the dashboard.

Learn how to add Speakers here.

Note: Speakers must be linked to a member account to be acknowledged with a badge and contribution. Learn how to link Speaker profiles to member profiles here.

Content

This badge relates to and acknowledges content authors. Authors are the individuals who are added as the ‘Author’ on a piece of published blog or resource content in the dashboard.

Note: 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.