Community Update – Influence Score
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During 2019, PMI’s Digital Communities team worked on a number of initiatives to increase engagement, enhance the sense of community, and bolster programming within its online community. Check out the Ask Us Anything webinar series to learn more about PMI; talk all things ProjectManagement.com on the Community Central discussion board; or seek guidance from one of our Ambassadors. We look forward to continuing such efforts in 2020 and beyond in order to advance the community!
The community’s evolution has led the team to reevaluate the Influence Score, which was launched in September 2014, and the purpose that it currently serves on ProjectManagement.com. Much has changed over the last five years - we have discovered that there are likely better ways to gauge and encourage engagement within the community.
As the community grows, we would like to find more useful ways to recognize all of the effort that community members put into engaging with each other, lending expertise, and enhancing the community’s vibrancy. For this reason, the Influence Score will be retired as of 30 March 2020. While you will no longer see the Influence Score (blue dialogue box) on your profile, the scores for topic areas (innovation, strategy, change management, agile, etc.) will remain. This functionality offers valuable insight into domain expertise within the community. You will also still be able to view the list of Active Members on the ProjectManagement.com home page.
We are certainly evaluating ways to continue to recognize community members’ contributions and demonstrate your helpfulness, impact, and leadership within the community – stay tuned for updates! As always, please reach out to a Product Specialist if you have any questions.
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Luis Branco
CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª
Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
"I may not agree with what you say, but defend to the death your right to say it" - François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire
Alexandre Costa
Scrum Master| Integer Consulting - Pictet technologies
Loures, Portugal
Influence score comes and goes, it's a bunch of numbers without much coherence, duplicated topics, imaginary algorithms, never believed very much in the numbers presented.
Already saw people with so little contributions in the site and only by be member of board local chapter gain a influence score very high, others with contributions like articles and deliverables with less score influence. So in the end what I see is rewarding status over effort.
I am much more than a two digit number.
Alexandre
Laura Schofield
PMI Team Member
Community Specialist| Project Management Institute
Newtown Square, PA, United States
Thank you, all, for your comments.
While we certainly encourage healthy and friendly debate on ProjectManagement.com and acknowledge that everyone has the right to express his/her opinion, we ask that community members show respect and remain professional and collegial in all interactions. To ensure a positive and inclusive experience for all members, it is important to keep dialogue constructive and to avoid disparaging remarks about others. We strive to cultivate an environment in which all members feel comfortable contributing.
To provide clarity on previous comments, the Influence Score is calculated via an algorithm and is not subject to manual intervention. As the community has evolved and grown greatly since the Influence Score was first introduced 5 years ago, we have discovered that there are likely better ways to gauge and encourage engagement within the community. This led to the decision to retire the Influence Score on 30 March 2020 as described above. We certainly look forward to all of the great changes in store for PMIs online community, and we hope that you will share in this excitement, as the community continues to advance and evolve!
Luis,
I know how hard is, I was one time there, 87, 88, 89... never reached the 90's. I participated actively in the discussion about "the algorithm" "the wall of fame"...
Due to time constrains I dropped to the 70's, and I was at "the wall of fame", guess what? I received in my inbox questions about how I get there if my score was low...
I've never understood why some people were so frustrated with that, do they share with their employer? use it in the resume? Sincerely, I've never understood that.
Personally, I'm not worry about it, I think that I'm more that a two digit number as Alexandre mentioned. Nor I felt frustrated for dropping my score. But I fully respect all those that are, and will not try to convince them.
On the other hand, I don't remember if it was last year or two years ago that from one of the main blogs PMI Global Insights or The Critical Path it was proposed to limit the "Thank you" for sharing and don't use external links in the posts.
Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Luis
Thank you again for your kind compliment.
While I totally understand your point of view regarding the influence score, and feel sad it is being retired, yet, at the same time I feel happy about this change because like Alexandre mentioned: “Influence is more than two numbers” and I am hoping with the retiring of the influence score, the quality of engagement will increase and I also hope they retire the influence for the topic areas as well because as I said earlier, it merely reflects someone’s level of engagement, no more.
The real influence is when you really make a difference and leave a positive footprint behind you. For example, look how many positive comments you received on your post announcing “You are leaving” ... This is INFLUENCE. It should be enough for you to see that the community appreciates you.
Over the years, I learned that the more you raise your expectations, the more disappointed you will be so do what you do for you. Do good because you are good.
We appreciate you my friend.
RK
First thing first Laura, Happy International Women Day! Just in time for it, I must say am inspired by your courage because such news is not music to the ear to many of us here, please don’t take it personally. What bugs me is, instead of remove why not freeze the influence score? I’m sure many of us have been inspired particularly by many of our superactive front line leaders like Rami, Kiron, Vincent, Sergio, Lori, Andrew, Stephane, Priya, Dinah, Keith, Thomas, Wade, Luis and many many others who have been 1. very professional; 2. tirelessly keeping the community lively and engaged by their responses and thoughts; 3. welcoming to new members as well as supporter and mediator to those who may felt hurtful at times; just to name a few, the list goes on... Of course the not so frontliner leaders are inspirational too but the former truly keeps the community spirit going, never fails, we could not thank enough!
Luis Branco
CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª
Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dear Rami
Thank you for this very nice comment about me
It is true that I, as a person, consider myself much more than 2 digits that are associated with Influence
As you said, influence is having many people to participate in the topics created by us, to read what we publish on the blog, to respond to our comments and the appreciation expressions we received
My point is another
The two digits associated with the name correspond, in a way, to the recognition of the community for our participation, involvement, commitment to exchange ideas in sharing knowledge and for learning
Ending the Influence Score is putting an eraser through the years that we have contributed to the community
It doesn't seem fair
When, without us being consulted, they decide for us (creation of the ambassadors and the nomination process and / or ending the Influence Score) I start thinking to myself: Is this the PMI that I joined a few years ago?
On the other hand, I feel some sadness for the direction that these two situations took
We are talking about reason and emotion
To end my intervention (I will not do any more on this subject) the "excuse" to end the Influence Score does not seem to me to be in any way justified.
On the other hand, they promise that they will improve the recognition of members but do not present any alternative proposals.
I appreciate you my friend.
Luis Branco
CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª
Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Still on the question of the algorithm (which is nothing more than a program made by people), we have here in the community a paradigmatic case that is Rami's
I've never seen Rami's score higher than 94 despite:
- In the last 2 years having 12 involvement as a chapter volunteer
- To be the person with the most "Most Reviwes and Comments" and "Most Discussion Posting", to be in third place in the "Largest Network", to have a blog, published articles and contributed for people to download not to mention the pols and wikis
Was it because he never did a webinar? :-)
Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Suzi
Thanks for your kind words, much appreciated. We do what we do because we are passionate about it and enjoy giving back.
RK
Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Luis
Thanks - While I appreciate you thinking of me, I suggest and prefer if each and everyone of us talks about their own experiences by themselves if they have any concerns.
I have no complaints about my current influence score and while I am a bit sad it is being retired as it took lots of hard work to get there, at the same time I feel that this change can be a good one and I believe PMI knows what they are doing and took this decision for the sake of the greater good. Sometimes we have to trust the system, even though we don't know what why's and how's behind some decisions.
Again, do what you do for you and because you love what you do. The influence score whether it is there or not, shouldn't make a difference in how we contribute towards this community.
Appreciate your kind understanding.
RK
Luis Branco
CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª
Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dear Ramie
Thanks for your comment
You wrote: "Sometimes we have to trust the system, even though we don't know what why's and how's behind some decisions"
As you can imagine, I accept, respect and value your position
I am more of the Thomas the Apostle style: "seeing is believing", that is, I prefer to know alternative proposals, consider their pros and cons, analyze them based on the principles, give my contribution (if asked) and agree (or no) with what is decided
Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Luis
I respect your point of view but keep in mind the following:
1) Seeing is Believing: They promised to deliver, give them a chance to do so then evaluate and see if they did or not. Maybe you will be happier with the new system.
2) You are a member of a global organization that has thousands of members but that doesn't mean PMI are obligated to ask each and every member about their opinion. While this will be ideal if they do, yet it is somehow impossible as change will take forever. They might have not consulted you on this, but maybe they will consult you on something else in the future and even if they consult us, it doesn't mean they will do what we ask for. We have to be open minded.
At the end, our obligation is to give and honest opinion when asked for one, regardless.
RK
George Freeman
Thought Leader | Author | Architect|
Florida, United States
Hello all,
I have had many conversations with myself regarding the influence score, as its addictive qualities grabbed my conscious thoughts and eventually forced me into self-directed psychotherapy. Fortunately, I learned a lot about this addiction after I explained to my wife that I had to be online because of my influence score, from which she said something that I would rather forget.
Needless to say, her “influence” over me woke me up, and I have been in a much better state since that point. That said, I will still miss the score as I enjoyed studying the “score patterns” across the personalities on the platform. I have to admit that I did what was necessary to keep my name on the headliners influence board, but I refused to “make a charge” as I take to much enjoyment in “writing a book” on each of my postings, and it would just be too much work to generate the amount of activity to drive the score up to the top-10.
Gamification is addictive, whether we want to admit it or not, and it doesn’t always serve the community well. So, I look forward to the new ProjectManagement.com world and have full confidence in PMI’s ability to deliver new and exciting offerings!
Thank you for sharing this
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