VIDEO: Wooboard Gamification Review

welcome today we'll be looking at woo board a cloud-based recognition system for businesses this video is brought to you by the technology advice smart advisor tool which lets you compare 80 top gamification companies in under two minutes woo board is an online platform that helps companies recognize their employees it works sort of like a mini social network every employee gets a unique account on woo board and can upload a photo or write a short bio or take other actions they can then award their co-workers with woos or digital symbols of recognition for doing things like sharing presentation notes coming up with a great business idea or staying late to finish an important project so let's look at the main interface here this is the page that an employee would see and you can see our profile picture the medals or rewards that we've received and our total points for the week right over here the center is our news feed which functions um about the same way as other social networks such as facebook or twitter you can see when co-workers make accounts you can see woos that have been sent and invites that have been sent as well any other interactions that occur within your team or within your company we can post an update here we can either woo someone can send one to kyle here great job and you can see we unlocked a badge for that since it was our first wheel got some extra points and kyle got some points as well for doing a great job we can also see the weekly leaderboard if we go down here on the left click leaderboard and got some quick company stats here it's just our test page and then you have the top point scorers and kyle and i are currently tied the best wheel currently it's mine it's the only will top receivers top senders and top teams and this is one of the main features of wubord this leaderboard and it's designed to encourage employees to recognize each other's actions and sort of compete but compete in a very friendly way for very positive actions there's also a team section companies can divide their employees into teams so you could break it apart into the sales group marketing etc and that adds sort of a different element of competition between different divisions of a company and that companies can also list their core values out such as excellence or persistence and then these can be attached to different woos so i can send a woo and mark it as an as a fulfilling the goal of persistence i feel that someone has really embodied that and that's essentially how woobord works and what their online platform looks like it's a basic service intended to help motivate employees raise morale and encourage positive thinking within an office depending on the settings each employee has this system could get a little overwhelming if there's a ton of employees or in a large enterprise but for medium to small businesses woo board is likely a very good solution if you'd like to learn more about gamification or are thinking of implementing such a program at your own company we recommend you visit technologyadvice.com where you can find product reviews of gamification services and other employee recognition providers use our smart advisor tool to help find a perfect match for the company or talk to a real live person about your needs all at no cost thanks for watching this walkthrough of wooboard's online employee recognition platform

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