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ErinEmployee

asked in The Lounge

🏛️⭐ Goosechase 101 for Visitor Experience Professionals

Need help levelling up? Whether you're running your first or your hundredth Goosechase, my nest is full of ideas to help get your creative juices flowing! I’m super excited to invite you to join me on Wednesday, April 24th at 10 AM PST / 1PM EST, for a helpful honks session on how visitor experience professionals in museums, art galleries, zoos, and aquariums can use Goosechase to create unforgettable experiences that will have your visitors flocking back for more. RSVP here! Have questions or just curious about anything in particular? Feel free to drop them below! Catch you next week! @Craig Cordell @maria_senditsocial @slorenz @Darnall's Chance @EleHein @cmcwhorter @jkaempfer @stacy.larosa @Jennifer

3 days ago

bastianandbrewsHatchling

posted in The Lounge

BARK QUEST!

Code: LP1Q8Q Greetings Nesters!I'm Joelle, the human behind Bastian the Talking Terrier, also known as @bastianandbrews or affectionately called "The Hairy Child." We're thrilled to collaborate with Goosechase for National Active Dog Month, aiming to strengthen the bond between people and their furry friends. Join us this Friday as we embark on a week-long adventure filled with missions created by R+ trainers (Pawsitive Behavior & NeuroDog Training) suitable for humans and pets of all abilities. Let's create lasting connections with our beloved companions while competing against other members of the canine community to win prizes, and donations for your favorite rescue! Sign up using our code: LP1Q8QSponsors include: Goosechase, FluentPet, BasePaws, TripMutts, Fi Dogs, Grumpy Dog Club, Andrea Caceres & ABC Pets, The Furry Folks, Ochoa’s Creations, & more! *The promotion begins at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time (“EST”) on 5 April 2024 and ends at 9:59 p.m. EST on 12 April 2024. N

7 days ago

EleHeinSr Hatchling

posted in The Lounge

🔴 Watch Recording: Applying the Visitor Service Lens to Team Building

The year is 2024 and building work relations within cultural institutions has never felt more difficult. The global pandemic has changed significantly how we socialize with our peers, and institutional culture is significantly impacted by this shift. Who would have thought that an opportunity to challenge siloed workplaces would come while beta-running an experience intended for museum guests?! I shared my experience with how engagement at a company holiday party drastically impacted the norms that were seen in the museum on a daily basis in a post here in the Nest several months ago, but I believe there are ways to use this information to continue to challenge barriers in our workplaces to build more positive work culture. I am so pleased to have been invited to share more about this experience and lead a discussion on what it might mean for contributing to a culture conducive to communication, collaboration, and camaraderie. Join me and Goosechase’s amazing Community Manager, Craig

22 days ago

Craig CordellCommunity Manager

posted in The Lounge

400 members and counting! 🎉

Honk honk hooray! 🎉 The Nest is officially 400 members strong! 🧡 Since the day we rolled out the orange carpet, this community has brought creators together to ask questions, get answers, and honk about anything under the sun. Thanks for being part of the flock! Celebratory honks to the 🆕 members that helped The Nest reach this milestone!@KeiraC @love5683 @KrazyKris @bastianandbrews @Reeceecup1 @wfrench @kwylie @LegacyLodge @Getting Dirty with Glenn @Keystar3 @Gmoney @Spashby @Grogu @Wincent @PatriciaMilanowski @JLeatherman @jabrown0731 @KirstenRae @baughkar @Krukl @Nightdust00 @ltran @Swannse @AmandaMorton85 @Katrina13 @GaylaT @Blueberryplz @zeldapiet We’re so glad you’re here! 👋 Reply below with your favorite conversation, event, or memory in The Nest! 🪺

25 days ago

HarmonyEmployee

posted in The Lounge

POSTPONED Crafting an Accessible Culture, One Feather at a Time

Let’s discuss how Museums can actively promote an accessible culture within their teams and exhibits. Discover how to leverage industry standards and accessibility principles to guide decision-making and go beyond mere compliance. Join me, a passionate mobile engineer and accessibility advocate, alongside our Goosechase Community Manager, @Craig Cordell, on Wednesday, February 28th at 1 PM EST, for an engaging conversation on building an inclusive museum culture. Please take a moment to RSVP to our event! Not sure where to start? Check out my blog article on how we’ve fostered a culture of accessibility at Goosechase.Feel free to drop any questions or specific topics you’re curious about below. See you soon!

1 month ago

Eric CEmployee

posted in Product News

Discovering creators' dream features through desire paths

One of the ways our product and design teams have gotten inspiration for new features has been to look at where Goosechase creators’ desired outcomes clash against the edges of what our platform’s current capabilities allow. Similar to how urban planners often observe “Desire Paths” formed by the organic movement patterns of crowds through unpaved areas in order to decide where actual pathways should be paved in the future, I’m interested in finding out what “desire features” creators have been enabling using their own clever workarounds, that have allowed them to “hack” features into Goosechase that we might not even have known creators have wanted to use.A few examples I’ve heard of in previous conversations with our creators: Permission collection: Using a text mission worth 0 points in order to get their participants’ permission to use submitted photos or videos for marketing purposes. Points for the fastest submissions: Including 0-point missions, and using the Dashboard

1 month ago

Craig CordellCommunity Manager

posted in General News

The Nest is ONE! 🥳

Today we celebrate the ONE-year anniversary of The Nest! 🎉 Over the last year, this gaggle has grown to over 350 members, created over 550 posts, and given over 950 thumbs up! And we couldn’t have done it without you! You flew together as a flock, sharing ideas, attending events, answering questions, and trading helpful honks.And we’re ready for more! This year we’re ready to welcome new geese to our flock, host more events, showcase incredible industry experts, and help Goosechase creators just like you make the world more fun, playful, and human.Honk honk hooray! 🎉 Since this egg hatched one year ago, there have been SO many of you that helped build this nest one twig at a time! Huge shoutout to these fine feathered day one community members: @Carrie Willis @MsKERodriguez @Mambrose @RetChaser @drfry2 @JRErickson @lhawthorne @nhill @cincrean @JackieD @MrBentley @Floyd Perras @jenniferacronk @MrBentley THANK YOU to everyone for being part of this community! 📣 Honk into the thread

2 months ago

maria_senditsocialSr Hatchling

posted in The Lounge

🔴 Watch Recording: 🏛️⭐ How Museums Can Be Top Curators on Social Media

Museums are sitting on a ✨ goldmine ✨ of content, and the average user spends 2.5 hours a day on social media-- that’s the perfect opportunity for museums to captive and engage their audiences right where they are! I’m super excited to invite you to join me and Goosechase founder and CEO Andrew Cross on Wednesday, January 24th at 10 AM PST / 1PM EST, for a conversation on how museums can use the power of short-form video to transform their social media presence and be top curators in the digital realm. RSVP here! Drop any questions or specific topics you’re curious about below. See you next week! Mona Lisa is smiling after all!

2 months ago

Craig CordellCommunity Manager

published in Community Welcome Guide

Meet the Community: Introduce Yourself

Hi Creators 👋🏻We are so excited to be here with you and to have the opportunity to launch this space for all Goosechase creators to connect, learn and inspire one another. I’ve got Goosebumps!If a few goosey puns haven’t turned you off yet (you can tell this community is *down-*right full of those) we’d love it if you would introduce yourself here in this thread. Feel free to share:🏢 Where you work 🏠 Where you live 💼 Your role 📲 How you use Goosechase, and 💯 How many Goosechase experiences you’ve runBut of course feel free to add any other interesting information about yourself (hobbies, interests, fave movie/band etc) or even a fun picture of you being a Silly Goose! This is the best way for us to get to know one another and feel more comfortable sharing ideas.

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3 months ago

MiaEmployee

posted in The Lounge

Favorite Emojis?

In case you missed it...we’re getting a goose emoji sometime this year. We’re mildly excited. That got me thinking: what are everyone’s favorite OR most-used emojis?! I’m partial to 🤗 and 🤠

3 months ago

Craig CordellCommunity Manager

posted in The Lounge

✅ 2024 "Ins" & "Outs"

It's not too late for 2024 "Ins" & "Outs" is it?Here I go! 👇 ✅ INPrioritizing professional developmentTime saving AI tacticsReading time instead of TV time ❌ OUTMindless scrollingPen and paper to-do listsDessert after dinner Okay, I can't make any promises on that last one! 🍦 What's yours?@Jax-in-the-box @Adrienne Lusby @Lea L @garretlai @mrsgorkow @Tammyhill34

3 months ago

kvalkovaSr Hatchling

posted in The Lounge

Side-quest adventuring 🗻

Keeping with the playful and game-based nature of Goosechase, I have a fun question for folks in the Lounge! 🛋 In video games you’ve got your main quests that actively progress the story, but also side-quests that can enrich your experience (even if they don’t have any direct bearing on the main quests).What side-quest(s) are you currently completing in your real life? 🎒

6 months ago

Anonymous

posted in The Lounge

Got a pet at home? Share a pic!

I’ll go first! Here’s our family dog, a fat little Frenchie named Opie (which is short for Optimus Prime) Woof!

8 months ago

KatieHead of Brand Experience

posted in General News

Review Goosechase + $15 Gift Card = 🧡

Hello amazing members of the Nest! 🎉Katie from the Goosechase Brand Team here 👋 I’m reaching out to see if you’d like to share your experience with Goosechase on Capterra, a technology review site. Honest reviews and feedback helps others who are considering using Goosechase within their communities decide if we’re the right fit for them.Here’s the scoop for members of the Nest:Head on over to Capterra using this link and drop us an honest review. It's super easy and won't take more than a few minutes. And, for the first 60 awesome folks who leave a review, you’ll get a cool $15 USD gift card! 🎁💰Let me know if you have any question!Katie

8 months ago

MrBentleySr Hatchling

asked in Product News

Trac phone? compatible

I had a student with a Tracfone phone. His phone said that it wasn’t compatible to download GooseChase. I’ve not seen this before. Are you aware if Tracfone phones are non-compatible? I think they use the Android OS.

8 months ago

Eric CEmployee

asked in Product News

Alternate leaderboard formats

Up to this point, Goosechase experiences have only had one leaderboard configuration that ranks the players from highest to lowest score, active as soon as the experience is started. As Goosechase creators have expanded their use of the platform beyond only that of classic “scavenger hunt’ experiences, we occasionally hear of creators wanting to use other leaderboard configurations as well. I’m curious about which of the ideas we’ve heard are the most popular among our community of creators. Please respond in the poll below to tell us about the types of leaderboards you could have found useful for a previous experience you created. Then, comment to tell us about the types of experiences you would have enabled with the alternate leaderboard configuration, or suggest other leaderboard configurations not included as one of our options that you might have found useful!

8 months ago

Eric CEmployee

posted in Product News

Team Creation and Participant Management

Our product team has recently been diving into the ways creators set up participant team creation and experience join in their Goosechase experiences. With the choice between Teams or Solo Mode, some creators pre-create all teams/participant profiles, while others let participants create their own after they join the experience. We even see some creators do both, pre-creating some teams/participant profiles while also letting participants create their own.Taking a look at our 2022 usage data, we discovered that 22.48% of completed experiences were set up with the creator in full control of the team creation process. They pre-created all teams/participant profiles without checking the option to let participants create their own.Since about 33.62% of experiences over the same time period contained at least one pre-created team/participant profile, this shows that when creators decide to pre-create any team/participant profile, they choose to retain full control of team creation in around

8 months ago

Eric CEmployee

posted in Product News

Mission Link and Photo Attachments

Something that surprised our Product team this month was seeing our data indicate that over half of all Goosechase experiences (51.3% to be exact), contain at least 1 mission that included either an added link or an added photo attachment. In fact, about 10% of all missions created on Goosechase contain an added link, while almost 15% of missions contain an added photo attachment! In our mind, the “core” of Goosechase missions had always been the text-based title and description fields. The link and photo attachment fields were of course available to supplement when creators needed to provide additional context to participants, but we had always primarily pictured media to be incoming from participants’ submissions while completing an experience, rather than something creators were overly concerned about when creating missions in the first place. It seems like there’s actually quite a significant desire from Goosechase creators to use media beyond text to describe mission requirements

8 months ago

Craig CordellCommunity Manager

published in Community Welcome Guide

How high up the ranks will you fly?

There’s been some requests to better understand the various ranks and badges that are up for grabs here in The Nest.Our opening batch of ranks are:Hatchling Sr. Hatching Gosling Sr. Gosling Mature Goose Sr. Mature Goose Elder Gander Sr. Elder Gander Goose AlmightyYour ascension up the ranks is based on a number of factors including: Posts, Replies, Likes Given, Likes Received, Number of Logins, Age in the Community and a few other secret sauce metrics (thankfully the machines do all the maths). Happy Ranking!

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8 months ago

Craig CordellCommunity Manager

published in Community Welcome Guide

More Badges than an Eagle ScoutF.A.Q.

To go along with the post about the various Ranks available here in The Nest, I thought it would be useful to also share a few, but not all of the badges one can earn here in The Nest. Now you might be wondering “Why not all of them?” Well, that’s a great question, my curious water-fowl friend! The answer is that some are earned “just because” or you’re an early adopter to something or are helpful. And we want these actions to be authentic, so to lay out the secret sauce would be to diminish the value of the badge. Also, this will not be a final list of badges one can earn. We will be adding new badges over time, so this will be a great post to check back on from time to time if shiny bobbles are you goose-thang! ChatterboxAvailable in Levels 1-5For Nesters who are topic starters (Posting Questions, Conversations, Ideas, Articles, etc)ContributorAvailable in Levels 1-5For Nesters who are constantly posting helpful answers/replies to the posts of othersPhotogenicOne Time BadgeFor Nest

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8 months ago

Craig CordellCommunity Manager

published in General News

The Goosechase Hike ‘n Honk, presented by Cotopaxi

The Goosechase Hike ‘n Honk, presented by Cotopaxi, Launches April 3rd, 2023 Howdy fellow Nest’rs! 🪺We’ve got a special contest event exclusively for our community members (that’s you): a Goosechase Experience of our very own brought to you in part by our fine feathered friends at Cotopaxi. Who knew a goose and a llama were a match made in heaven? Well…we did. Cotopaxi is all about inspiring people to explore and do good, and we couldn’t be more excited to partner with them to get you ready for epic adventuring. The Goosechase Hike ‘n Honk, presented by Cotopaxi, will kick off on April 3, 2023, and you’ll have the entire month of April to complete Missions and accumulate points for your chance to make it to the top of the leaderboard and win weekly prizes. Here's how it works:Create and fill out your profile on The Nest, the community for Goosechase creators (Pro-Tip: make sure your profile has your real name and photo) Download the latest version of the Goosechase app Use the Join

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11 months ago

Eric CEmployee

posted in Product News

How many bonus points do creators award?

One thing that’s been on our mind recently is how many bonus points Goosechase creators are awarding to their participants’ submissions. It’s no secret that awarding bonus points is an easy way for creators to help participants feel positively recognized for their submission contributions (Hint: Participants get a notification for each one!), but what we were curious about was what quantity of points creators tended to award, relative to the original point value of the mission. Before we took a look at the data, we asked the Goosechase team to take a guess at the most common bonus point quantities awarded. (We had already completed enough data analysis at this point to know that even though creators were able to freely enter the number of points awarded using the current Experience Manager interface, the point values tended to focus on certain cleanly defined percentages)As it turns out, most of us greatly underestimated Goosechase creators’ generosity levels! Most of the time, creator

1 year ago

Craig CordellCommunity Manager

asked in General News

The Chase: Newsletter Updates

Did our latest email newsletter fly into your inbox? The Chase is two delightful minutes in your inbox that capture the thrill of creating incredible interactive experiences for your community. 📚 This month we talked all things Experience Template Library, chock-full of 250+ ready-to-use templates that are ready to run, you can easily search for topics or holidays, use them for inspiration, or customize each Mission for your community. 📼 If you started your first job somewhere between the 80s and ‘00s, we can bet a corporate training video was part of the agenda. We compiled 9 of the best retro training videos for your viewing pleasure!🤫 “Quiet hiring” is often uttered in the same breath as other recent-ish trends like “quiet firing” and “quiet quitting.” The good news is this particular brand of quiet offers something far more promising: the prospect of incorporating new skill sets into your workplace simply by giving existing employees new responsibilities. So what’s the deal wit

1 year ago

Anonymous

asked in The Lounge

THIS... OR THAT?

Just for a little fun, here’s a game we play on slack at Goosechase HQ each week and the responses have been nothing less than hilarious 🤣. It’s called This Or That, you’re given a scenario and two choices, and you simply need to pick one or the other. That’s it! Pick your own level of humiliation (and remember you have to choose only ONE):Here's the situation, you got caught red-handed doing something bad, and the judge (me), finds you GUILTY, but gives you a choice in your punishment.. 😅. You either MUST sing Karaoke 🎵 EVERY TIME you're in public OR be forced to wear a clown suit EVERYWHERE 🤡 Please only choose the THIS... or the THAT. There are not other options, there are no grey areas up for discussion. it is THIS or THAT.... That's it, that's all

1 year ago

MiaEmployee

posted in General News

Our new logo!

We debuted our new look in the Fall of 2022. In case you missed the announcement, here’s the 411: https://blog.goosechase.com/new-goosechase-logo/

1 year ago

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