“[Spotify] could have just adopted Rypple’s existing Web services, which help coach employees and give them real-time feedback about their performance. Instead, Spotify asked Rypple to incorporate a more formalized management methodology called OKR, for Objectives and Key Results.”

“Goal setting is traditionally one of the most top-down aspects of business. Now Rypple is teaming up with much-buzzed-about company Spotify to reimagine all of that. The social performance management company worked with the digital music firm to develop Social Goals 2.0.”

“Applying social principles to employee feedback meant applying the same principles that have worked on facebook.com, for example, to propel the growth in Facebook photos. Facebook wanted its system for providing employee feedback to feel natural in the same way.”

“Rypple brings a social, just-in-time approach to performance management. Employees get the continuous feedback, coaching, and recognition they need to improve faster and stay engaged. Managers ensure their teams keep focused on the right priorities.”

“Attendees will also get a glimpse about how Facebook uses social software to manage their 3,000-person internal culture, half of whom are 'millenials.' Technology provider Rypple will provide additional insights into what it's been like to work with Facebook.”

“In the most adept teams, members know who knows what, who needs what information and how to coordinate as a result. Rypple’s mobile capabilities mean that feedback can be given and received in ways that parallel the stream of daily work.”

“Rypple answered [the question] “wouldn’t it be awesome if you could give and get feedback at work anytime, instead of just during an annual performance review?”

“[Rypple and other social applications] are the kinds of applications that people are using in college at the moment, and these are the kinds of applications and the kinds of functionality they expect when they go into their new employer and they will feel extremely restricted if they don’t…they’ll get frustrated and then move on.”

“So how can your company keep its stars engaged? It comes down to creating a culture of communication — one in which employees know where the organization is headed, how they fit into these plans, and what’s expected of them.”

“Rypple sponsored a flash mob at the HR Tech Conference in Chicago. They wanted the attendees to know that work does not have to be boring. They succeeded as far as I'm concerned.”

“With its flexible payment options and free trial period Rypple allows you to tailor your experience to your budgetary needs.”

“We want to make the way people communicate at work more seamless and efficient—to surface all the data currently living in CRM, support, and product development and bring it into people’s daily work flow. This will lead to improved communication, collaboration, and ultimately business performance.”

“Through the app, employees won’t have to wait for the next workday to congratulate a colleague or talk about an important issue. They are also able to check their feeds to stay updated of the company’s whereabouts or post a status in real time to say thanks for a job well done.”

“Rypple’s free iPhone app fits naturally with the way work happens today. Users can check Rypple’s social feed for the latest company news while waiting at the airport; update teams in real time on the status of a pending code freeze; or post a public ‘Thanks’ to the colleague who just helped win a major account.”

“With the new iPhone application, users can track the company feed for news, update teams on the status of a project, post “thanks” and hand out badges.””

“Users can check Rypple’s social feed for the latest company news while waiting at the airport; update teams in real time on the status of a pending code freeze; or post a public "Thanks" to the colleague who just helped win a major account.”

“The world is becoming more democratic and reflective of the will of ordinary people. And pragmatically, social power can help keep your company vital.”

“New software programs are also making it easier for workers and their managers to share instant praise and criticism. Facebook uses Rypple, a program that resembles the social-networking site and allows workers to give each other real-time feedback (“stop interrupting customers” or “great presentation at the last meeting”).”

“One of the things that has made Rypple a pleasure to work with is the company often seems to be anticipating what she needs next before she has thought to ask for it, she said. "We're very agile and very fast-paced, and so is Rypple.”

“Companies like Rypple are trying to re-engineer the human-resources requirements in that kind of workplace, so that measuring performance isn’t done once a year or every six months, but in something close to real time, using social tools that make more sense for such an environment.”

“Rypple is an HR technology that streamlines and encourages micro-feedback by creating a digital system for employees to communicate, set goals and monitor performance, both for themselves and by their managers. The ability to give real-time, actionable feedback engages the employee and provides managers with a useful tool to improve performance, Ovsyannikov said.”

“With its 3.0 software, Rypple has made performance reviews useful again.”

“Rypple, a real-time social performance management platform, has taken a big step forward to enhance transparency and credibility in the workplace by launching Rypple Flow, which is exactly what its name suggests.”

“Whether online or face-to-face, mentoring is "a social relationship," says Daniel Debow, co-CEO of Rypple, which produces performance management software. Any technology "should facilitate deeper, richer relationships.”

“What’s changed is that social media and other new technologies have brought a higher degree of flexibility, interactivity, and immediacy to the workplace. Why wait six months to tell your employee she’s done a great job—or that she needs to improve—when you can do it right now, today.”

“[Rypple Flow] provides critical information in real-time, instantly transforming a plan wall into a valuable engagement tool to help teams stay effective and dynamic.”

“Instead of waiting for a company town hall meeting or monthly newsletter, with Rypple people can immediately recognize people in other departments and recognize collaboration on goals...”

“Similar to a social network, Rypple makes it easy for leaders to recognize achievements and offer regular feedback to employees.”

“Produkte wie Rypple ersetzen demnach die alten Gespräche im Büroflur und bringen sie schnell und einfach auf einer Plattform zusammen, deren Nutzung an Social Networks angelehnt scheint.”

“One thing you get when you walk in the Valley is this incredibly invigorating sense of the possible - let's not be happy building a $2- to $3-million business; let's build a $1-billion business” [Rypple co-CEO Daniel] Debow said

“Rypple's approach to employee recognition...when used as a Jive app, Rypple also posts an image of the badge and a message about why it was awarded to the Jive “what matters” news feed.”

“Features like “Loops” let users provide ongoing and actionable critiques of colleagues so feedback can be assessed at any time...this enables individuals to develop influence based on their real impact rather than a perception of where they sit in the company hierarchy.”

“Managerial tools such as Rypple's...speak to the way online innovation has changed how people interact in a wide spectrum of activities.”

“In fact, with a service such as Rypple, successful results can be recognized almost immediately, with rewards, status and reputation offering an incentive to further improve an employee's performance and engage with the company.”

“It gives a manager visibility into what her team is working on all the time, and provides a shared online space that facilitates ongoing feedback and communication between colleagues - regardless of their physical location.”

“Con alle spalle 13 milioni di dollari da investitori privati e istituzionali, Rypple ha creato un tool già utilizzato da migliaia di aziende sparse per il mondo in sostituzione dei precedenti software HR.”

“Facebook is already seen as one of the more satisfying place to work in the tech industry, and Rypple promises that their new service, Loops, will improve upon Facebook's proven culture.”

“米Facebook社では、従業員が大量のフィードバックを頻繁に受けることが、迅速で効率的な業務につながっている。同社が利用する従業員評価システム『Rypple』について紹介。”

“Rypple was approached by Facebook to deliver an app that could allow performance reviews at any time.”

“A Canadian software company wants to re-invent the corporate performance review by replacing what the co-CEO calls “a 50-year-old process” with one that recognizes the social elements of today's workforce and the value of iterative feedback.”

“[Rypple] gives people a sense of the unknown: Where do I stand? People love that. It really resonates,” says [Facebook’s head of university recruiting Adam] Ward. “If we want to avoid becoming too big and bureaucratic…we think that real time, ongoing feedback helps us move fast and avoid too much bureaucracy.”

“Rypple's online platform helps workers give and receive feedback. Picture it as Facebook for the office”

“High performing teams always...collectively set out their goals, they give each other feedback to try to get better. There's software out there to help enrich the feedback environment. One of the top companies developing new software is called Rypple...” (Dan Pink)

“Social networks meets human resources in this new web application designed to create teams and provide feedback to employees.”

“Every company's success, regardless of its industry, size or focus, hinges on achieving and maintaining high levels of productivity. As a result, leaders rely on implementing annual performance management processes and technologies. But today's "Generation Y" workforce operates on a set of motivations, core values and expectations that makes managing and elevating productivity more complex than ever before.”

“I recently interviewed Daniel Debow, the co-CEO of enterprise social software company Rypple. During our conversation, we discussed the game-like constructs built into the Rypple software, like the concept of rewarding people with “badges” for giving recognition and building reputation within a company.”

“Everyone hates annual reviews: those stale processes that are supposed to be educational and motivational but usually turn into stale rituals no one enjoys. It isn't just that they're awkward; in today's world, they are a complete anachronism.”

“When it comes to productivity, you can deploy all the software in the world you want, but it's people, not tools, that foster productivity, says Daniel Debow, co-CEO of Rypple, a social software application that sets out to help teams work better.”

“Daniel Debow of Rypple discusses their social software, which is designed to put this type of thinking into more efficiently linking management with what's going on with the people and culture of the business, aiming to enable performance acceleration, keeping projects and people aligned and on track.”

“The annual review is one of the most dreaded tasks on any employee's to-do list. Companies won't give raises and promotions without it. Human resource departments demand the forms, supposedly for legal reasons. And the process is fraught with anticipatory angst, defensiveness and dread.”

“How do organizations and managers keep their employees happy? Certainly not through the age-old practice of annual performance reviews. A startup called Rypple aims to change that, releasing version 3.0 of its progressive online feedback tool to help employees get recognized for their work on an ongoing basis.”

“"We don't want to be the Facebook of the enterprise, we want to be the Zynga," says co-CEO of Rypple Daniel Debow. Considering the role gamification is playing in Rypple's development, he may mean that in more way than one. Rypple is a software-as-a-service for employee feedback. Staff can give each other feedback and managers can coach their employees and manage goals.”

“Today, Rypple launched version 3.0 of its Web-based social software that's designed to help teams work with greater efficiency. Rypple lets users share feedback, coach each other, and stay on track with the job at hand. Best of all, it's free.”

“When you're working in the corporate world, you get reviewed every year-which doesn't make a lot of sense in this real-time world. Today we have tools and systems that can help get you reviewed and get feedback from your managers as your work happens, not months later. Rypple is leading the charge: it's a social software tool for making feedback, coaching, and recognition easy at work.”

“When Daniel Debow and David Stein co-founded Rypple, they knew they wanted to build a Web-based tool that would help people get valuable feedback at work. They knew there was a need for such a tool, and they had ideas for the specific things it might do - but they were wary of settling on a set of design specifications without knowing more about how their customers wanted to use it.”

“The problem with annual performance reviews is that they're annual; the employee is likely to get an earful about last week's problem, not last spring's success. Rypple aims to fix that with social media tools that make giving and getting performance feedback part of the daily workflow.”

“A lot has changed for Rypple, a startup focused on helping employees get feedback, since we first covered it in June of last year. The service has rolled out several new features and closed another round of funding. We caught up with Rypple to find out what's changed, and talked with Rypple customer Rackspace to find out how service works in practice.”

“The 80 million echo boomers who are, or soon will be, in the U.S. workforce belong to a computer-savvy generation accustomed to immediate feedback. Preferring to adjust their performance on the fly, they have no patience for waiting for the feedback they need to help them get to the next level - whether in video games or business.”

“On Wednesday, Rypple, the Canadian startup that specializes in software that allows employees to offer feedback in the workplace, announced it has secured US$7-million in new financing from a group of investors led by California venture firm Bridgescale Partners.”

“Rypple has gone public about their latest round of financing which appears to include Bridgescale. Bridgescale's participation likely came through their acquisition of Edgestone. Edgestone's GPs participated personally in Rypple's initial angel round.”

“The workplace is constantly changing as globalization and technology impact how and where work is done and who does it. People are increasingly looking for information, insight and perspective for strategic and tactical reasons.”

“In the world of Facebook or Twitter, people love to hear feedback about what they're up to. But sit them down for a performance review, and suddenly the experience becomes traumatic.”

“Rypple provides an easy way to get constructive feedback on the issues that matter to you. Whether you want to find out about what you should wear to the company party or how you did in your recent presentation, the site makes it easy for you to get the information you need quickly.”

“One defining characteristic of the Net Generation is that it thrives on feedback. Just as they are used to checking their progress on leader boards when playing video games, so Net Geners want to keep close tabs on their performance at work, too. This can be a problem for managers who may be badgered weekly-even daily-for appraisal by eager young members of staff.”

“One defining characteristic of the Net Generation is that it thrives on feedback. Just as they are used to checking their progress on leader boards when playing video games, so Net Geners want to keep close tabs on their performance at work, too. This can be a problem for managers who may be badgered weekly-even daily-for appraisal by eager young members of staff.”