1. Use WordPress to Create a
Gamified Community of Practice
Dr. Bill Brantley, PMP
bill@billbrantley.com
Billbrantley.com

3. The Challenge
“So, you keep talking about knowledge
management and collaboration and
why we shouldn’t use shared
drives/email for storing our
documents and sharing knowledge.”
What’s Your Big Idea?

4. Knowledge Management System
• Online and accessible from anywhere
• Role-based security
• Discussions with the ability to mine those
discussions
• Groups
• Document sharing
• Wiki
• Project Management
• Analytics and Reporting

5. Drupal as a KMS
Drupal
• Role-based logins
• Groups
• Discussions
• Wiki
• Document Repository Front
End
• Analytics Front End
Alfresco
• Document Repository
• Records Management
BIRT
• Analytics
• Reporting
Solr
Search
MySQL
Supports Drupal
PostgreSQL
Supports
Alfresco
LAMP
Tomcat

6. Can You Make It Technically Simpler?
Easy to Administer?
And Add GAMIFICATION?

7. Why Gamification?
“Gamification is a business strategy
which applies game design techniques
to non-game experiences to drive user
behavior.”
http://www.gamification.org/
1)Increase engagement
2)Increase sharing
3)Increase collaboration
The
Big 3

8. WordPress as the KMS

9. Plus a lot of plug-ins
1) Akismet
2) BadgeOS
3) BadgeOS Badge Stack Add-On
4) BadgeOS Community Add-On
5) bbPress
6) Better WP Security
7) BuddyPress
8) BuddyPress Rate Forum Posts
9) Formidable (optional - $)
10)Jetpack by WordPress.com
11)Limit Login Attempts
12)myCred
13)SG CachePress (optional - part of hosting package)
14)Wiki (optional - $)
15)WPMU DEV Dashboard (optional - came with Wiki)
16)WP Project Manager
17)WP Publication Archive
18)WP Video Posts

10. BuddyPress.org
Install This First!

11. Jetpack.me
Need An Account on WordPress.com

12. Badgeos.org
Install BadgeOS Badge Stack For Examples

13. myCRED.me
Make Sure To Enable
BuddyPress and BadgeOS Hooks

14. Configuring BuddyPress (1)

15. Configuring BuddyPress (2)

16. Configuring BadgeOS (1)

17. Configuring BadgeOS (2)

18. Configuring BadgeOS (3)

19. Configuring myCRED

20. Configuring Better WP Security

21. Configuring Widgets

22. Easy Updating
WARNING: Set up automatic backups of your WP database.

23. Collaboration Features (1)

24. Collaboration Features (2)

25. Collaboration Features (3)

26. Collaboration Features (4)

27. How Do I Start?

28. Then, Get a Copy of This Presentation
bill@billbrantley.com
bill.brantley@gmail.com

29. Get them used to the
WordPress KMS and then,
give them the Drupal KMS