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Starling Starfish, Idyl & Rypple

The starfish vanity storytelling pack is inspired by the world of Enchantimals and comes with a six-inch doll, two starfish friends and accessories to play out a familiar theme

Pieces inspire beauty with a transparent blue vanity table with mirror outlined in pink sea-inspired trim, a matching stool with star-shaped seat and beauty products

Starling Starfish doll wears a unique and colorful outfit: the pink bodice is decorated with colorful shells and "beads," the orange removable skirt has a molded starfish shape

A starfish-decorated headband adds another splash of color in her pink rooted hair, and animal-inspired facial features match her besties

The two starfish figures -- one medium Idyl starfish and one small -- have adorable details and cute expressions. The little one even has a spot to hold some of the beauty products

Fellow HR peeps out there - are you saying, "Duh, of course HR is social?" The fact is is that in most places, Human Resources is not really concerned with social media, or if it is, it's because it's been required to develop a social media policy for an employment handbook. 

Let's talk about how social media can really be a benefit to HR. We typically think of social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc) as externally facing and communicating messages that is targeted to outside audiences. However, many of these same tools can be used to convey information to internal audiences. With other appropriate applications, social media can promote really important dialogues. For example, Chatter and Rypple are widely used by companies to help facilitate these conversations. HR can be instrumental in understanding what is being said by employees in both in person as well as online environments including the social media platforms, and when appropriate, conveying key messages. Think of Chatter as the modern day water cooler, but with one very significant added benefit - there's a track record of the rumor mill of what's been said. With Rypple that is being used to shape behavior in real time (or close to real time), it's also important to understand that an organization's or department's goals may shift regularly, how this in turn impacts a manager's assessment of his/her employees, and how an organization's assessment of its talent is no longer a single annual snapshot. It means that HR isn't running a single performance process once a year, but that a department has real time data on high performers. This in turn affects areas of HR like recruiting and workforce management, because HR better and more accurately knows where talent gaps exist.  

I was browsing Quora and decided to look up the top questions in the Human Resources forum.  Somebody asked the question: what if you earned badges at work instead of job titles? 

-- Dan Debow

Dan has an MBA and a law degree from the University of Toronto (Woohoo! Represent!) and has sold two businesses for ~$300M so far. I'm really glad he stayed in Toronto. I really respect that.

Here's a very serious question: Are the tools your company's employees use to do their job more or less motivating to that end than the apps, games, and social services they use to do something other than their job? Put another way, does the software your people use for play improve the quality of their work, more than the software they use for work?

This is a question that a company called Rypple first started tackling three years ago. Identifying what Rypple was, was evidently hard enough - in 2009, ReadWriteWeb called it an enterprise solution for garnering feedback; two years later, we re-introduced it as a tool for rewarding employees for good performance. Both were partly right. Fortunately for Rypple, Salesforce perceived it as something substantially greater, and today Rypple is being re-reintroduced as the latest cloud-based component in the Force.com arsenal.

Read the full article ► via ReadWriteWeb

►Mini Matmian:

We are no strangers to the gamifying of the work place (we use a great piece of kit for software development called RedCritter Tracker) and from our experience it can certainly be a great motivational device. 

There are pitfalls to watch out for and you need to carefully analyse whether it would be right for your business but, if implemented effectively, it is a great tool for rewarding employees for good performance.

Check out Matmi's experience with RedCritter Tracker.

What are your thoughts on adding Gamification to the work-place?

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Collaborate and conquer: The Rypple effect

The workplace is changing. Slowly but surely new tools for working, for engaging, for achieving are entering the corporate world. These tools not only transform the workplace into a more social environment, but they also make it a more successful environment. Rypple is one company that stands at the forefront of this push. Rypple's team understands that in an increasingly fast paced, global and always-on environment, we need new tools to help us to remain focused and together.