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"Gamification," like "Community," has been stretched, misinterpreted, and burned as a term. 🎲❤️🔥 At its core, it's about motivating and rewarding members for their valuable contributions to your community. Many community builders jump straight to handing out physical swag, but there's a lot you can do from a digital, scalable, and free perspective. Whatever you choose, make sure it's something that your members actually want and will be incentivized by. Otherwise, you're spinning your wheels. See the full course here: https://lnkd.in/gYei_UVy

With every new role, you often receive plenty of questions like: "What are you working on?" "How's it going?" "It is fun?" Well, folks. This ⬇ is what we've been working on. 👷♂️ And how it's going. 🍾 🚢 If you're a Givebutter customer, just Butter-curious, or a friend who is interested in what's next in fundraising tech, I encourage you to join our team at The Spread: A Givebutter Launch Event. But is it fun? 💯 Link in the comments!

🚀 Easiest win of the year! Want to get a MacBook Air - FOR FREE?! Join our Hackathon's Referral Program! 🚀 The Referral Program for deco.cx's 5th Hackathon - HTMX Edition - is here, and we're offering hot prizes for those who bring in participants. Here's how it works: 1. Invite your friends to join the hackathon using your email as the referral code. 2. Earn $10 USD in Amazon gift cards for each friend who registers and completes the hackathon. 3. The top referrer wins a MacBook Air! Track your progress and see where you stand on our leaderboard: https://lnkd.in/duEaUe2s Don’t miss out on this opportunity to bring your friends along and win big! Let’s make this hackathon the best one yet. 🚀 Register now: https://deco.cx/hackathon5 deco.cx

Exciting news for our LinkedIn family. If you have been reading from us, you will know we are keen on seeing people succeed in their tech Journeys. Trust me, when we say we are your buddies, we mean it and we are willing to go the extra mile just to see you succeed. With that in mind, do you have any questions you would love a tech expert to answer? Instead of charging you for consultation, we are opening an exciting window for you today… We are pleased to invite you to our AMA sessions. Here are 3 things you should know about this AMA Sessions: 📌The AMA with Your Buddy sessions will allow you and all techies in the Tb Techies community to ask any questions concerning tech. 📌Our expert buddies will give you concrete answers to any of your tech questions swiftly. Where is this going to happen? 📌The AMA sessions with Tekbuddy will happen live in the TB Techies community! If you are not in our community yet? Quickly join using this link 👇👇 https://lnkd.in/e7eY8qkK See you inside!

We had our first "Riedel hour" at OHack. Jason, a former OHack Judge, community-minded person, that is a mentor, founder, and lover of all things tech spoke with as many teams as he could within an hour specifically focused on their presentations. This team in the photo took home 1st place. Our top 3 favorite areas that Jason focused his feedback on: 1. The judging criteria - talk about how you solved the nonprofit problem according to the judging criteria. 2. Leave out superfluous things - like authentication (everyone knows what login and OAuth is). Use your demo time wisely - you have 4 minutes of video airtime, don't spend 30 seconds introducing the team or 2 minutes talking about your database. 3. Start thinking about your presentations early, likely earlier than Riedel Hour (which was 2 hours before the end of the hackathon). This will help you think about the scope (too much or too little), complexity, and plausibility that you'll finish an MVP. You can build the most amazing thing, but if you can't explain it to anyone - does it really exist? Photo Credit: Bryon Keck

About to get a little sappy (okay, a lot)! Last Friday, we hosted the 1st ever Women@Dox ½ Day and it was a roaring success! This was once just an idea (a great one from Krystyn). Candidly, it was borne out of brainstorming ways to get more engagement at our virtual events. What if we created an entire ½ day of programming with speakers, breakouts, activities, swag? Similar to virtual offsites, a Doximity staple during COVID, it would be connection, learning, and fun all in one. As a board, we loved it instantly. But we also had reservations. Can we pull this off? Can we find the right balance? Can we make it fun without feeling forced? Will anyone actually show up? But, we decided to push full steam ahead. It was truly a team effort, with suggestions coming from all sides. Before we knew it, the agenda was almost finalized and it looked REALLY cool! We polled Women@Dox to pick a date (without sharing any details about the event itself). Summer schedules are hard with travel, DTO, offsites, meetings. But, there are always a million reasons to NOT do something. We settled on July 26th and made the announcement. Maybe I’m just speaking for myself here, but it felt like holding in a collective breath as we waited to see what the reaction would be. This was our first time ever doing something like this and it would only work if it resonated with our community. And it did. In a big way. The excitement was palpable, and not just from the 7 of us who had been planning for months. 😅 I let out a deep breath. With a little under a month left to go, we still had a lot of work to do. Last Friday, I held my breath again as I clicked “Join Meeting” for the kickoff. The same reservations were still swirling around in my head. It was a summer Friday, after all! I was preparing myself to be in a Zoom room with just the board, and possibly a few coworkers who I had hounded mercilessly to join. But, the participants kept climbing, and soon we hit over 50 attendees. Deep breath out, big smile on. Let the fun begin! 💃 It is so important to me to work for a company that cares about building community, that puts its money where its mouth is when it comes to company culture, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. The fact that we got to invite almost 300 members of our community to join us for a ½ day of programming devoted to women’s wellness, professional development, and connection is a testament to that commitment from Doximity (& from Félix & Jessica, who spearhead the work). I’m so proud of this event that we made happen, and I hope this communicates that it was a really powerful “we” that did this, including fellow board members (Abigail, Jen, Taylor, Jennifer, Samantha, Krystyn), committee members (Emmie, Kayla, Brynn, Rose), our awesome guests (Dr. Frances, Shannon, Sara, Chloe) and our community. It wasn't perfect, but to me, it was. If you have any ideas for the 2nd Annual Women@Dox ½ Day, my DMs are always open! #erg #ergs #dei #deib

Teacher Appreciation Week is here! But before you rush out and buy another apple, let’s dig into the history (and the best ways to show your gratitude). Turns out, Teacher Appreciation Week’s roots are a little fuzzy. Maybe it was First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in the 50s, or maybe passionate teachers from Wisconsin or Arkansas. Either way, we’re celebrating those who shape young minds! Fast Forward to 1980: #NationalTeacherDay bursts onto the scene in March. Four years later, the awesome National PTA declares the first full week of May as Teacher Appreciation Week. So, How Do We Celebrate? GTeachers spend a ton of their own money on supplies. A gift card to Walmart, Target, Amazon, or even a local coffee shop can be a lifesaver! The Power of “Thank You”: A heartfelt card or note from a student or parent can be more meaningful than any gift. Teachers are BUSY. Offer to volunteer in the classroom, help with events, or even just give them a planning period free from interruptions. Shout out your favorite teacher on social media! The National PTA even has a “Thank a Teacher” toolkit with graphics, activities, and digital thank-you cards. #SocialMediaLove Advocate, Advocate, Advocate! Supporting public schools and fighting for better resources is the ultimate teacher appreciation move. Show your teachers you care, in a way that works for them. And hey, if they do love apples, well, you know what to do! #TeacherAppreciationWeek #ThankYouTeachers #TeacherAppreciationReimagined #SupportTheirClassroom #EveryDayCanbeTeacherAppreciationDay #WordsMatterMost #PublicSchoolsMatter

Hello friend! Come close, we have a friendly reminder for you today⬇️ Your journey to the top is only getting started. You are about to walk into places of higher purposes and influence You are at the verge of closing deals you could only ever imagine. Your starlight is only beginning to shine and the world better gets ready cause it will stay that way for long. But do yourself these favors; • Streamline all you have to do into something small and start with one! • There’s enough data on here already, start filling up your mind with only that which is relevant to the path you have chosen. If you have no path, seek one! • Join communities that do what you do or you are interested in. Communities create networks that work for you- (feel free to join our vibrant tech community today for all your daily tech updates: https://lnkd.in/e7Dag9e6) • Look around you, who is that person you want to learn from? Get to them, and start learning from them. • Finally, build skills around your interest. Then, step out and have fun while at it! TGIF fam😍! What are you doing for the weekend? datagirltech.com #datagirltech #womenintech #girslwhocode #tgif #journeyofgrowth #Community #weekend #funfriday

Read the full community update: https://buff.ly/44gcV6E Read what the Launch School community has been up to in this month's Community Update. Featuring important announcements, articles, meetups and more. #launchschool #communityupdate #codingisfun #SoftwareEngineer

The first rule of the nocodeklub is: you can talk about the nocodeklub. The second rule of the nocodeklub: if you are building with no-code you’re part of the klub. The third rule: if someone yells "how?", you need to show how you built it. That's exactly what we did last week. Here's a quick recap 📽 P.S: we're soon coming back with monthly meetups ❤️ And special shoutout to Silver Nebula for the great video and photos 🙌