“Goal-setting and communications inside Rypple software form “the perfect loop,” Sidebottom said. The HR app also makes work performance transparent. Everyone in your circle of associates knows how much work you did. Here peer pressure is a good thing, Sidebottom says. ”

“Pinpointing and compiling all those wasted man hours could save companies a significant amount of money. The team at Rypple made an infographic to show all the ways you are losing precious productive time.”

“Online performance management tools allow a sales manager to give a salesperson immediate feedback on a sales pitch after it happens in a way a traditional review can’t match, for example. Social software also allows managers to mix existing workforce practice with the open, iterative and collaborative nature of the Web.”

“VoIP communications company Fonality conducted a survey to find out which mundane office tasks suck the most time out of the day. Pinpointing and compiling all those wasted man hours could save companies some substantial coin. The folks at social performance management tool Rypple compiled the infographic below based on that data.”

“The infographic - from Salesforce Rypple - predicts a third generation to follow today's consumer-centric mobile workplace, and is a good way to start a dialogue about how social mobility will progress in the enterprise.”

“Rypple co-founder and co-CEO Daniel DeBow, now a Salesforce vice president, said Benioff has been out front with his message that companies of all sizes need to become “social” online, much as he was in proselytizing the now-accepted benefits of cloud computing more than a decade ago.”

“The aim of Rypple co-founder and co-CEO Daniel Debow is to stop distracting people with bureaucracy. Traditional annual performance reviews fail to give the constant feedback that helps employees get better at their jobs, he says.”

“Rypple’s offering enables companies to help employees improve their performance using a social and collaborative approach. Salesforce Rypple marks Salesforce.com’s entry into the human capital management market, wherein it will compete with other enterprise software giants such as Oracle, SAP and Microsoft.”

“Rypple, acquired in December from a company with the same name, will serve as an alternative to the applications SAP picked up through the $3.4 billion acquisition of SuccessFactors and those Oracle gained in 2005 when it bought PeopleSoft.”

“Gone are the workflow management systems of a manufacturing age. Instead, says Rypple cofounder Daniel Debow, the software created a social environment where people and projects can keep in touch in an easier way. ”

“Rypple had a stellar adoption rate across all the various groups at Living Social. The company regularly sees its employees logging unsolicited updates to their individual goal tracking. The tool is now used for capturing daily feedback, and producing greater communication within departments. Managers and peers send thank you notes to one another through Rypple, and badges are frequently given for concepts and values.”

“The new software, called Rypple, is designed to work along with Salesforce's customer relationship management software and the Chatter social network for businesses.”

“Salesforce.com is challenging Oracle Corp and SAP AG by introducing new software for human resources management, an application to help businesses run their operations.”

“In keeping with the theme of social enterprise, Salesforce unveiled two new products at the event, Salesforce Rypple and Salesforce Site.com. Rypple, which was acquired by Salesforce in December 2011, is a social network and employee feedback system for businesses.”

“Performance reviews are the least enjoyable tasks done and they always have to be done once per year. We want to ensure there is a continual dialogue between employees and managers,” Salesforce software development executive John Wookey said in an interview with VentureBeat, “Rypple defines key results and actions, monitors the status of objectives and fosters a dialogue of the goals being set in the organizations, so people understand what’s expected.”

“Social performance management engine Salesforce Rypple brings the company’s recent purchase into the fold, six weeks after the acquisition closed. For the unfamiliar, it’s essentially a tool for recognizing employee performance, offering feedback and coaching, tracking business goals and generally applying gamification principles to the enterprise.”

“Salesforce.com, the global enterprise software company, takes the wraps off of two new products that they hope will become game-changers in the social content space.”

“The new product integrates Rypple’s core product into the broader ecosystem of Salesforce software, which Mr. Debow says marks the first time such a widespread social integration has occurred in the human capital space.”

“Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Mark Benioff Thursday made the case that businesses can embrace applications based on social networking programs like Facebook and Twitter, unveiling the latest pieces of his company’s social enterprise platform for performance management, marketing and sales programs.”

“Salesforce Rypple, acquired from start-up Rypple just six weeks ago, focuses on the social nature of performance management. The software does away with yearly performance management reviews, instead allowing users to give employees feedback and recognition daily from within their employee social network.”

“Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM) introduced new software for human-resources management, stepping up a challenge to Oracle Corp. (ORCL) and SAP AG (SAP) in the market for applications that help businesses run their operations.”

“When the Salesforce.com folks saw that Rypple was creeping into organizations the same way Salesforce.com had -- by business folks going around IT and firing it up themselves -- it knew Rypple was a match.”

“The company completed a pretty impressive feat. It already stitched its newly acquired social human resources tool, Rypple, into the Salesforce.com site. This includes integration with Chatter, Salesforce's answer to Yammer.”

“The part of Rypple that generated all the buzz last year was the use of badges - literally, on-screen graphics that look like sewn-on Scout patches - to reward workers for various accomplishments.”

Besides providing constant feedback that helps employees get better at their jobs, Rypple lets everyone participate in setting goals. “As a management organization, you’re having less bureaucracy about how you distribute and describe goals and goal setting,” Mr. Debow says. “As an individual, you have more clarity about how what you’re doing is meaningful and important.”

“Rypple’s software enables employees to improve their performance using a social and collaborative approach. It recently launched an Android app for Rypple to focus on the growing mobile workforce in enterprises. Rypple already offers an iOS app and is now available on the two largest smartphone platforms.”

“An updated Social Goals 2.0 module has been integrated into the web-based social performance management platform Rypple.”

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“Rypple sees Android as a key part of plans to “transform the social feed into a productivity feed,” according to Ovsyannikov. That’s why the app incorporates features like photo sharing content and integrating with the calendar. In the future, the service could become even more powerful with integration to other services from Salesforce.”

“Salesforce.com has been eying the enterprise mobile space since months now and has launched mobile optimized versions of some of its offerings. We expect the enterprise mobile software market to expand rapidly in the coming years, and contribute to a larger part of Salesforce.com’s overall revenue.”

Many of the entrepreneurs Mr. Debow meets are in need of only one thing: encouragement. “Being an entrepreneur is a very lonely job and it’s very nerve-racking. You’re terrified of losing money. You’re terrified of losing your reputation,” says the Toronto-based angel investor. “It’s OK to be nervous and terrified. I’ve been nervous. I’ve been terrified.“

“The system is transparent, Stein says, so anyone within a company can easily see which employee garnered the most kudos, regardless of seniority or job title. Moreover, he says, gamification creates a positive feedback loop in which employees feel recognised for their work, leading to increased productivity.”

“Be proactive. Don’t just sit back and wait for the feedback to come. If you want feedback about yourself and how you’re doing, go out and ask for it. Then make it part of a conversation, so that it becomes a basis for an ongoing dialogue with you and your manager, or you and your employee. Use it as a basis to check in and see how that person’s doing.”

“What we saw with Rypple something a bit more dynamic and fluent, and it provides an environment where you can capture feedback as you go,” Roberts said. “What is great is that it might be small or big things, which has been miss with the old fashion type of product.”

“The best feedback often comes on the taxi ride back to the office after an important meeting,” Rypple co-founder and co-CEO Daniel Debow told VentureBeat via e-mail. “Rypple’s investment in an Android app lets our users stay aligned with key priorities, get real-time updates, and recognize great work — away from the office.”

“Rypple is at the far end of a movement to sell companies on the idea that the modern worker, armed with a cellphone and a tablet computer, having access to a nearly infinite amount of computing power in the cloud at all times, is a new kind of beast. Just as our social lives have changed because of Twitter and Facebook, the argument runs, so too must our working lives change.”

“Salesforce.com said it will re-launch Rypple, which counts Facebook, Gilt Groupe and Spotify among its customers, as “Successforce.” The move signifies Salesforce.com's initial entry into the human capital management market. The deal is expected to close by the end of April 2012.”

“[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.”