EMC Corporation, Gamified First, let me express some incredible excitement that, along with an incredible team, I helped launch RAMP last week. RAMP, short for Recognition, Award, and Motivation Program, is EMC Corporation’s first gamification deployment. This is a big deal for us. RAMP went live to an community audience 230,000-members strong. The early feedback…
This week on the Gamification Roundup, we’re getting corporate: Tim Chang of Mayfield Fund provides some expert insight on incorporating gamification, pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim’s has its first foray into gamification , a beautiful blood pressure tracking app called BloodNote engages through design, UnitedHealth is starting to bring gamification into their activities, and a high Klout score…
“Gamification adoption has reached a tipping point, and we think it is high time that the very best this industry has to offer be recognized,” said Gabe Zichermann, chair of The Gamification Summit. “With the GAwards, we are excited to recognize and honor the best achievements in Gamification in a number of different areas, from…
As a Facebook fan of The P.S. 22 Chorus, I found the following video last week: You might think this is just your average cute dancing baby youtube video, but you’d be wrong! The toddler in this video demonstrates the innate ability in children to find the game in anything. At 1:04, this little girl finds…
Hello GCo Readers! Today we have one new and two older but very good examples of gamification added to our GBase: Mplifyer – (pronounced ‘amplifier’) is a unique software platform that provides rewards and benefits to individuals, businesses, schools, charities and non-profit organizations using gamification concepts eBay – established in 1995, features one of the earliest…
Today in our ongoing GList Series, we’re featuring Kes Sampanthar of Cynergy. Now here at GCo we like to call gamification as a kind of “engagement science”. Why science? Because gamification practitioners have hypothesized what it will take to motivate an audience, experimented with new projects, and drawn conclusions about what works and what doesn’t….
The following is an Op-Ed piece by Adam Tendler I’ve always had an ambivalent relationship with games. In Little League, I’d stand in the outfield and cover my face with my baseball glove, at once bored and petrified by the idea of the ball flying in my direction. The one physical fight I’ve ever been…
The Following is an Op-Ed piece by Mark Burgess of Trapster: At its heart, gamification uses game logic and mechanics to solve problems, engage users, and build loyalty. In the popular media, though, this often translates to nothing more than a process of action and reward – activity for digital validation. There are, however, more…
This week on the Gamification Roundup, we have news on gamification as a means of growth (and decline) in a number of different topics: “Healthy Competition” is taking on a whole new meaning as companies pit employees against themselves for health, Sandra Day ‘O Connor creates a SimCity-like game to teach local government, Striiv addicts…
by Justin Schier, Chief Creative Officer Dopamine Inc. @justinschier If you’ve never experienced the British TV phenomenon phenomenon known as Golden Balls, it’s worth watching a bit, even for kitsch value. Even though it went off the air in 2009, there are hours of it available on YouTube. It was basically a just-as-shlocky, slightly more sophisticated…
Today in our ongoing GList, we’re featuring Adeo Ressi. In the tech world, startups are a dime a dozen. Many become huge successes but many more eventually fail. For the few success who were lucky enough to be apart of a startup accelerator, what aspects enabled them to succeed where nobody else could? Sure, one…
We held our first GSUMMITx in London this April 30th. Thanks to our venue sponsor, Capgemini, we were able to host a great meetup with over 40 people. Gabe Zichermann kicked it off with a fantastic talk. His three F’s were resounding in our collective heads afterward “Fun, Friends and Feedback”. Next up with…
Hello GCo Readers! This week we have three new gamified health products added to the GBase: Cellnovo – a gamified diabetes tracking package with a mobile handset, web app, and insulin pump HealthPrize – a medicine adherence application that rewards you for taking your medicine Hubbub Health – a social health network that combines gaming,…
