Today, we announced the release of HYVE Public, a new iPhone app designed to make it easy for people to share what they’re working on. The full press release was posted on PR Web this morning, and oyu can find it on PR Web and on our Press Page.
You can read the nitty gritty below.
The App
HYVE Public is based on our standard design principal of “tapping not typing,” and allows users to check-in to customers, projects, and locations with a single tap of the phone. Users can then connect with other professionals who are working on similar things, or who work in similar locations.
Use HYVE Public to:
- share what you’re working on with the world
- instantly push work-related updates to LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook
- see what nearby people are working on
- connect with people working on similar projects or clients
Download the app here: http://ddut.ch/hyvepublic
Game Mechanics
Points and badges are awarded for various achievements and check-ins, and results are published on a leaderboard. We have chosen to launch with some fun ones.
Users get badges for checking-in to specific countries, states, and cities, for connecting with friends, and adding photos. We also have badges for those that push more than 5 updates to Facebook or Twitter. Our most prestigious badges are created to highlight Subject Matter Experts.
Subject Matter Expert Badges are awarded for check-ins to specific projects. For example, you can get a bronze, silver or gold badge for checking into specific projects, including:
- Bookkeeping
- Android Native
- Blogging
- Branding
- Business Development
- Competitive Analysis
- Customer Service
- Graphic Design
- HTML5 App Development
- Marketing
- iPhone App Development
- Recruiting
- Public Relations
- Quality Assurance
- Sales
- Speaking
- Teambuilding
A Bronze requires 25 check-ins into the project, Silver requires 50, and Gold requires 99.
Here are some other fun badges we have set-up for launch:
- Caffeinated Badge – For early workers. Check-in 7 times before 8am on HYVE Public.
- I Heart SF – For all San Francisco lovers! Check-in to 20 different places in San Francisco.
- Foodie – For those that love to work from cafes, bars, and restaurants. Check-in to 10 different restaurant/bars while you are working.
Users can send suggestions for badges and offers to info@doubledutch.me.
Also included in the app is a leaderboard that tracks how you are are doing against friends, people nearby, and the entire HYVE Public community.
Analytics
The app’s productivity analytics provide pie charts which display how much time the user is spending on various projects and customer work. It will be interesting to see how much time is spent on various projects by different professionals (marketing managers, CEOs, account managers, designers, etc).
The Benefits
We all know there is more to a professional resume than meets the eye. HYVE Public’s integration with Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter makes it easy to push work achievements out to the larger networks. By pushing updates to LinkedIn, for example, users can have a continuously updating resume online, full of daily professional achievements. It’s a relevant, real-time way to demonstrate that you are more than your title.
Let’s face it, social media and game mechanics are changing the workplace in a big way. HYVE Public is the logical next progression in logging, sharing, and connecting around achievements at work.
The Goals
There are 3 main goals we have in launching HYVE Public:
1. Demonstrate HYVE functionality to the public. Most of our enterprise customers (Cisco, HP, etc) have purchased HYVE apps to be used internally, and are therefore private to the company. Now, tech-forward professionals can download HYVE Public, log their activity and achievements on the public app, and purchase a private HYVE productivity app for their company or workgroup. This is the foundation of our business and the main goal of the app.
2. Enable the public to share what they are working on. HYVE Public is an interactive, location-aware app that enables you to share what you’re working on and highlight your professional achievements in a public way… which we think is fun!
3. Show future DoubleDutch employees an example of our technology. As we grow our team, it is helpful to have a free, open app that demonstrates the core components of our private enterprise apps and our “tapping, not typing” interface.
Download HYVE Public today and share what you’re working on with the world! http://ddut.ch/hyvepublic
About DoubleDutch
DoubleDutch is the industry’s only provider of cloud-based, geo-social applications for today’s mobile enterprise. DoubleDutch HYVE, a cloud-based suite of horizontal, geo-social productivity applications, enables enterprise mobile employees to collaborate and communicate within a social framework of ongoing tasks and projects. HYVE end-users can highlight location, projects, and line-of-business specific tasks, as well as share and post social updates relevant to the workflow process. In use by some of the world’s most innovative companies and organizations, including HP, Cisco Systems, Adobe, Amdocs, Vivo Pools and TED, HYVE helps companies tap the productivity power of both the mobile channel and the collaborative nature of social networks to improve efficiency, boost employee productivity and illuminate productivity analytics across every line of business. DoubleDutch can be found on the web at http://www.doubledutch.me
