Setting up Social Networking and Gamification Leaderboard

Engagefully and Engagefully EVENTS provide great social networking tools that promote engagement with your event and help attendees connect with one another.

• Attendees can create their own customized social profile, including a bio and links to other social media.
• The Directory makes it easy to locate and favorite other attendees, so you can quickly find them again later.
• Engagefully features direct attendee-to-attendee private messaging.
• The Activity timeline allows users to post comments and photos, and is a great way for people to share all the exciting things that are happening at your event!

Getting your event set up for social networking couldn't be easier!

In the back office, from the main event details page, click on the "Edit Event" button, and select the Social Networking tab on the left.

Social networking is enabled by default for all new events. If for any reason you'd like to disable social networking, you can do that here.

Approval

Users do need to have an Eventsential (app) account and be logged in in order to use the social networking features.

There are two options for approving users:

1. Users must be known to the event

2. Approve all users automatically

With the first option, users must be known to the event or approved by an admin. If you've set up access restriction that requires an uploaded registrant roster, then anyone who is listed would be considered a known user. 

Those whose email address does not match a record from the attendee roster would need to be approved manually by an administrator before they coan use the social networking features.

The second option will approve all attendees who log into the app and access the event automatically, regardless of the access restrictions. This option is best for unrestricted events or events using a shared password.

Attendee Roster

The Directory in Engagefully and Engagefully EVENTS displays both the attendee roster, if you've uploaded one, as well as users' social profiles.

When you upload the attendee roster, you want to make sure that you include the attendee's email address. This serves both as a unique identifier for the attendee, and it's also used to match the roster entry with a user's social profile, so that the directory will actually combine both the roster entry and the social profile into one listing.

Even though it's important to include the email address with the roster upload, you don't have to display the email address in the directory. You have the option here to choose whether or not email addresses should be displayed but they are hidden by default. Keep in mind that this just applies to the email address in the roster. Users can still opt to display their email address in the directory by modifying their profile settings.

Business Card Exchange

The attendee Business Card Exchange allows attendees to scan each other in app to exchange information. This is a great feature for attendees to network with as it allows you to add notes on the users you connect with that they can revisit in their registrant bag. Learn more about the Business Card Exchange here!

QR Codes are available in app for attendees to use but click here to learn about our Badge Printing Portal or Exporting our QR codes for bulk printing.

Gamification

Enable gamification to encourage app engagement! Attendees can earn points for likes they receive on their Social Timeline Posts, participating in the business card exchange, scanning with exhibitors, and checking into session!

Set the point scale for each opportunity attendees have to earn points. Enable/disable the options we have available depending on the features you have enabled for your event.

Learn more about setting up Gamification here!

Now when you're done, save your changes, and that's the basic set up!