Exciting Updates: Cisco Community Badge Refresh

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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 

[#2]

@Rich R Hey there.  Yes, that was a miss on our part when refreshing all the badges.  Can't undo it, but it's top of our list for future updates.  For the "first post" experience, we're looking at the flow and if there's anything we can do when a new member joins and starts posting and replying - all actions that result in badges and levelling up in rank ... hence notifications.  Unfortunately, notifications on badges and ranks is an all or nothing setting.  We can't regulate individually.  We'll let everyone know if we end up adjusting the badge or rank scheme.

[#3]

Thanks for sharing it!

[#4]

Excellent

[#5]

Thanks for sharing Information

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Hi,

Today I did the whole course for Intro to DUO admin panel and passed the test at the end.  Then I made an account on id.cisco with the same email address.  But when I try to make it "fetch your certifications", it shows zero.  "No Badges for this user in acclaim"

How do I get a DUO cert or some visual swag for completing that course?

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@DJ-Cornfield as far as I can see Introduction to the Duo Admin Panel is not a certification.  It's one module of the Level 1 Administrator Certification Exam.  Once you have have completed all the modules you then need to complete the certification exam.  Only then will you be considered Duo certified and qualify for a badge.
https://levelup.duo.com/path/admin-panel-essentials

Also remember it can sometimes take a day or two for the various systems to update each other so your cert may not appear instantly.  If it's not there after a week then you might need to contact the community support - see https://community.cisco.com/t5/community-help-knowledge-base/community-help/ta-p/4662356

[#8]

Cool, let's start getting those badges!

[#9]

Thanks for the update

[#10]

HI,

Why is the community responding to a thread with no useful info?
Do people get points for leaving a non-helpful "thanks for sharing" type message?
Seems like a reason NOT to get notifications on a topic that I care about.

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Thank you for sharing insights about the community news, recognition, and program badges. This information is valuable for staying updated and actively participating in the Cisco community program.

[#12]

Thanks for sharing the news about earning a badge, level of Badge and important of achieving levels..steps involved to achieve the levels.
Cisco Community badges come in different levels, recognizing expertise, engagement, and valuable contributions:

[#13]

Thanks for sharing this information. Love the new look

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Thank you for sharing the information, new badges are lovely!