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Gantthead Badges - How To Get Them

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Situation: You could use a pat on the back.

Badges are one of my favorite recent additions to gantthead. At a glance, they help you understand how your peers are contributing to the site. If you look at your profile as your "PM Body of Work", badges offer a fun set of highlights - adding a sort of punctuation to the link-lists of things you've done.

They live on the your profile and and follow you around the site. Every time you make a comment or participate in a discussion, badges tell people a little bit about you.

Since launching badges last week, we've received a lot of questions about how you earn them. So here's a quick list of the launch set of badges and a description of how you can get them. We'll be adding more over time, but these are a great place to start.

 

Contender

Contender

Create a public profile on gantthead

Showoff

Add 5 areas of PM expertise

Producer

Register a project on gantthead

Loudmouth

Comment on 10 blog postings

Chatterbox

Comment on 40 blog postings

Critic

Write 10 reviews

Pundit

Write 40 reviews

Arbiter

Rate 25 items

Pioneer

Create 5 wiki pages

Watchdog

Edit 10 wiki pages

Promoter

Refer 10 new members

Advocate

Refer 40 new members

Celebrity

Complete a public profile on gantthead

Instigator

Post 10 questions in gantthead discussions

Firestarter

Post 40 questions in gantthead discussions

Know-it-all

Post answers in 10 discussion threads

Smartypants

Post answers in 40 discussion threads

Thinker

Write 10 blog posts

Philosopher

Write 40 blog posts

Networker

Connect with 50 ganttheads

Mover

Connect with 200 ganttheads

Shaker

Connect with 500 ganttheads

SME

Become a Subject Matter Expert

Contributor

Contribute 5 downloads

Brain

Answer 5 PMprep questions correctly

Genius

Answer 20 PMprep questions correctly

Scribe

Get 3 articles published on the site.

Author

Get 15 articles published on the site.

Thought Leader

Get 30 articles published on the site.

Einstein

Answer 100 PMprep questions correctly

Scholar

Successfully complete a gantthead NOD for "PMO Mission, Goals, and Objectives: Business Driven vs. Theory Driven PMOs"

Scholar

Successfully complete a gantthead NOD for "Managing Projects: Think Process not Methodology"

Scholar

Successfully complete a gantthead NOD for "PMO Tools: Establishing an Architecture vs. Implementing a Tool"

Scholar

Successfully complete a gantthead NOD for "Effective Contracting With a Senior Sponsor"

Groupie

Join 5 public GIGs

Socialite

Join 10 public GIGs

Party Animal

Join 30 public GIGs


Posted on: October 05, 2010 08:54 PM | Permalink

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Kevin Coleman Subject Matter Expert, Author, Speaker and Strategic Advisor| - Insights Pa, United States
A Great Resource - THANKS

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Daniela Arellano Project Leader| Sinergy Team Ecuador
Great idea!!!

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John Herman . Us, Aa, United States
I think it would be valuable for each member to be able to "rank" their badges. To me, having a "Brain" badge is much less significant than my Certified Quality Engineer credential, but because I was a CQE before I was a "Brain", the CQE ranks lower.

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Anthony Akkendi Auditor| Office of The Auditor General Kenya Nairobi, Kenya, Kenya
Love It!

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Kevin Aguanno President| Procept Associates Ltd., TidalShift Inc., Barnes & Conti Associates LLC Scugog, Ontario, Canada
Great idea. This adds a fun, competitive nature to the site as well. It also encourages people to comment and otherwise participate who may not have been inclined to do so.

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Kevin Coleman Subject Matter Expert, Author, Speaker and Strategic Advisor| - Insights Pa, United States
Another enhancement would be to provide each individual a scorecard that shows how far away they are from acquiring the next three closest badges!

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Waqas Akram Chief Operating Officer| Camusat Islamabad, Pakistan
brilliant idea!

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Waqas Akram Chief Operating Officer| Camusat Islamabad, Pakistan
Can any body guide how to get scholar batch

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Tom Diersch Retired Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Great Idea, how about making the badges searchable?

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Tom Diersch Retired Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Great Idea, how about making the badges searchable?

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Tom Diersch Retired Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Great Idea, how about making the badges searchable?

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Eric Lamy Senior Project Manager| Keurig Green Mountain Newbury, Ma, United States
Was a page ever created that details all of the badges and the method to acquire them?

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Eric Lamy Senior Project Manager| Keurig Green Mountain Newbury, Ma, United States
Waqas: To earn the Scholar badge(s), go to the PMuniversity page at http://www.projectmanagement.com/PMuniversity/ and complete any of the modules to earn a NOD and the associated Scholar badge.

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Eric Lamy Senior Project Manager| Keurig Green Mountain Newbury, Ma, United States
Well, I can answer my own question. Silly me for not searching first. The list of badges can be found here:

http://www.projectmanagement.com/pages/265510/Badges

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Waqas Akram Chief Operating Officer| Camusat Islamabad, Pakistan
Thanks

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Waqas Akram Chief Operating Officer| Camusat Islamabad, Pakistan
Thank you Eric. I got it.

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Waqas Akram Chief Operating Officer| Camusat Islamabad, Pakistan
I guess now some of the badges are not available.

kbosquez
This is a good idea. Can users share their progress or profiles via social media?

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MAEN QADDOURAH Project Director| AJ SAUDI Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
nice

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Ramachandran Anand Functional Manager| A2Z Infra Management Services India
This is simply one stop solution to understand. A little description of how to earn each of these will fulfill a complete resolution.

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