This feature is included with all Blink subscriptions. |
Colleague Recognition (aka Kudos) provides an easy way to make your employees feel valued in a meaningful, personalized way. You can mark anything worth remembering, recognizing, or celebrating on the Blink newsfeed in seconds.
In this article:
The recognition micro-app allows managers and peers to post kudos that publish to the feed, drive engagement and celebrate various milestones for the whole company.
Core use cases
Peer‑to‑peer kudos: Quick shout‑outs to colleagues for their great work, customer praise, and contributions in team projects.
Manager recognition: Formal praise from manager to their subordinates tied to values or goals, visible to a wider audience in the company..
Milestones and moments: Birthdays, work anniversaries, and congratulations templates to celebrate at scale.
Programme enablement: Run company values‑based awards, leaderboards, or “employee of the month” by tracking recognitions.
Targeted visibility: Share to a team, location, or role group, then let admins boost posts to regions or company‑wide.
Adding Kudos to your Blink app
Copy the link below. This is the link you will use to add the Kudos app to your Blink organization.
https://microapps.joinblink.com/recognition
Open the Admin portal and navigate to the Content Studio section. Select "Hub".
Click "Add Content" and choose Microapp from the drop-down options.
Paste in the link from step 1 into the URL box. The URL must contain "https://" or it will not work.
Add the display name and an icon of your choosing.
If you are looking for an icon, we can provide a default icon. This cannot be customized but will be for free. Click the link below to request this.
Share this with a Team(s) of your choosing. Anyone within this Team will be able to share Kudos.
Add this to the Section of your choosing.
We highly recommend making this a QuickLink using the toggle towards the bottom of the page so it's easy to locate for your users but this not a required step.
Once you are ready click 'Share'. The microapp is now ready to be accessed.
Setting up Kudos
Head to the Admin Portal
Customise the recognition tabs & awards as per your company values, objectives and topics; you can choose to add icons or images according to your own brand guidelines!
You’ll see a standard set of awards available which can be customized based on the user's needs: thank you, you’re a star, work anniversary, happy birthday, congratulations... Select the option that best fits your situation.
Below you can see a video on how to set this up from the admin portal:
Sending Kudos
Head to the Hub
When you want to recognize or appreciate an employee, click or tap ‘Recognize a colleague’
You’ll see a standard set of awards available which can be customized based on the user's needs: thank you, you’re a star, work anniversary, happy birthday, congratulations... Select the option that best fits your situation.
Enter the name(s) of the user(s) you'd like to recognize and select "next".
Personalize your recognition with any notes. We encourage a brief summary of why you're sending the kudos i.e. a summary of the situation, the specific number of years for the anniversary, a quick memory for in a happy birthday message, etc.
Preview and send. You can still edit after posting.
You can find the video walkthrough here:
Custom Kudos
You can also set up customized recognition options in the Kudos microapp if desired. You can add a category, remove a category, and update existing categories.
What you can do:
Customize Recognition Icon and Feed post image
Customize the title and description
Change the order of awards
Customer awards for sub-companies
‘Default’ orgs award configuration will be applied to all companies, unless the company has its own configuration.
All orgs have a default configuration if they have no custom configuration
What you can’t do:
A max of 30 awards can be created per organization
Access the customisation screen if not a super admin
Show the icon on feed post itself
Award recognition to entire teams
For each new or customized recognition category you'll need:
1 icon (png or jpg format, size 181.2525px x 181.2525px)
1 background image for the feed post (png or jpg format, size 1080px x 665.4339px)
1 title (ie "You're a star")
1 description (ie for "You're star" it is the section that says: "Appreciate someone who has made every day the best it can be")
Steps to create custom Kudos:
In the Admin Panel, click into 'Manage Apps'
Click into 'Recognition App'
Scroll down to 'Awards' section and click 'Add an award'
Here you can change the title to your liking, upload an image for the icon, and also upload a Post image.
You can change the order of the awards as well as edit the existing awards.
Click on 'Save changes' to save your awards.
Featuring a Kudos post
You can also boost these recognition posts and feature them at the top of your feed, if desired. (Read more about featuring posts here)
Once featured, the post would sit at the top in the feed carousel widget, like this:
FAQs
I can't see the Microapp in the Hub. | If you can't find the Microapp within the Hub please make sure you are a part of the Team this is shared to. |
Can anyone send Kudos? | Anyone with access to the Team this microapp is shared with will be able to send Kudos. Please ensure that the audience only includes members you want to be able to access. However, regardless of who is on the Team, you can send Kudos to any user within your organization. |
Who can add the Kudos microapp? | You will need admin privileges (Team Admin, Content Moderator, or Organization Admin) to add the Microapp to your Hub. |