Exciting Updates: Cisco Community Badge Refresh

[Gabriela Godoi do Prado]

Hello Cisco Community Members, 

We are thrilled to announce a significant refresh to our badge system, designed to enhance your experience and recognize your valuable contributions more effectively. As part of our ongoing commitment to community engagement, we have introduced new badges and updated existing ones to better reflect your participation and achievements. 

New Badges 

We are introducing new badges to celebrate your milestones and contributions: 

First Article Created: Awarded for publishing your first knowledge article. 

First Blog Created: Celebrate publishing your first blog post with this new badge. 

 

Popular Content: Content that garners 1000+ views will earn this badge, highlighting your impactful contributions. 

Updated Thresholds 

To ensure our badges accurately reflect your engagement, we have updated the thresholds for several existing badges. Now the following badges include multiple levels, from 1 to 600 posts. 

Comments on Knowledge Articles: Recognizes your comments on Knowledge Articles. 

Idea Innovator: Recognizes members who create new and innovative Idea posts. 

Discussions Created: Acknowledges your new discussion posts 

Knowledge Articles: Rewards the publication of knowledge articles 

Helpful Votes: Now includes more granular levels for the quantity of Helpful Votes you receive 

Replies: Recognizes your replies in discussions 

Accepted Solutions: Celebrates your replies that have been accepted as solutions, with thresholds from 1 to 500. 

Project Story: Recognize the Project Stories you share.  

The First question badge below, has an updated layout:  

First Question: Recognizes members when they create their first discussion in our Community.   

Recognition and Program Badges 

We continue to honor our top contributors with our prestigious recognition badges: 

Hall of Fame: Showcases an elite group of long-time contributors. Learn more here. 

Designated VIP: Annual recognition of top non-Cisco contributors for their expertise and contributions. Learn more here. 

VIP Alumni: This Badge is given to all past Designated VIPs.  

Spotlight Award: Quarterly recognition of members whose significant contributions demonstrate leadership and commitment. Learn more here. 

Event Top Contributor: Acknowledges experts who host technical events. Learn more here. 

Additionally, we have badges for our Cisco Insider User Group members and members who have earned Cisco Duo certifications. 

 

We are currently in Phase 1 of this refresh, focusing on implementing the new badges and updating thresholds. Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to enhance your community experience. 

We hope these updates will make your participation in Cisco Community even more rewarding. Thank you for your continued contributions and for making our community a vibrant and valuable resource for all. 

Best regards, 

Cisco Community Team 

[vishalbhandari]

Thanks for sharing this information. The new badges are more attractive and beautifully designed. @Gabriela Godoi do Prado 

[Gabriela Godoi do Prado]

@vishalbhandari thanks for your feedback! 

[Gallifrean]

always nice to have wider recognition of contributors

I believe it provides incentives for more people to contribute

[DanielWahlsten81978]

Love the new look and they have a more invited feel to them

[egiantur]

Thanks for sharing new badges. I think this can better reflect people's commitment

[mayorfrancisxavier]

Thanks a lot for the information!

[Brooke Hammer]

We apologize for all of the notification emails! We executed the badge update mentioned above which unfortunately triggered email notifications. We have caught it and stopped any further emails but apologize for this inconvenience. We truly appreciate all of your contributions to the Community!

[abdulrauf01251]

Thanks for sharing

[Marcelo Morais]

I loved the new design and especially the new badges @Gabriela Godoi do Prado and @Brooke Hammer !!!

[Gus Leon]

Great new badges!  Thank you for sharing such detailed information on these new badges.

Best Regards,

Gus

[abdulrauf01251]

Thanks for sharing

[raj246]

Thanks for sharing this information. 

[sn0]

Just a bit of feedback: I just did my first post in this community and earned a bunch of badges and received FIVE emails! That is just not cool. You really shouldn't send people emails about their badges by default! It's spam!

Also, the "First question" badge email got sent twice.

[dbrittin]

@sn0 Thanks for bringing this to our attention.  We're working on it.  My engineer may private message you for more information.

- Denise