Sharing your scorecard on Twitter
Introduction
A great way to engage the community on your scorecard is to let them know every time your scorecard updates. You can celebrate your users' successes by sharing their score, rank and movement from the previous update on Twitter.Using the tweet-out channel
To use this channel, navigate to the "Share" link on the top navigation bar of your manager dashboard. The options for using Twitter are available on the Twitter button.
Click on Twitter -> Twitter Announcement -> Settings
General tweet announcement (to all your twitter followers)
Click on Twitter Announcement. You
can send out a tweet to all your followers on Twitter announcing the
scorecard bulletin of a new update to your scorecard. You can only do
this once for every new scorecard bulletin. You can choose to send this
tweet out automatically as soon as each new scorecard bulletin is
generated or you can do it manually.
Tweeting to the users on your scorecard (@user tweets)
For sending out tweets to the users on your board, you can use a mail-merge type process to customise messages to:1. Top x users (ordered by the rank on the latest release)
2. Top x climbers (the users who have moved up the greatest number of rank places
3. Top x fallers (the users who have moved down the greatest number of rank places
4. Top newcomers to the board
Choose the number of all these values in the settings page as shown in the screenshot above.
Automating small changes in copy for each user
For each section of User Tweet Outs (i.e. Top X, Top X Climbers, Top X Newcomers), you can vary the text slightly for each user by creating a custom merge field. This minimises the possibility of Twitter considering your tweet-out to be spammy.
Go to Scorecard Settings -> Score Entries -> Custom Fields:
- Click on Add Text
- Create a Key (which will be the name of your custom field)
- Add text separated by a semi-colon and a space e.g. abc; def; ghi - note the space after the semi-colon - these will the values that will be rotated randomly in your Tweet out message
- In the user tweet out messages, use the custom field in the appropriate place and then your copy will be slightly different for each user, randomly.
