Klash Gamifies Your Friends’ Awkward Bar Bets In the spirit of the weekend and our gamification of wine selection, Klash is a new startup that aims to facilitate the process of getting your friends to do the awkward dares you think of after a few glasses of said wine. The premise is simple: first, select whether you…
This is a guest article by Jon Guerrera, marketing nerd and GSummit 2012 Speaker. When it comes to wine, points matter. In a revealing article published in the Wall Street Journal, Leonard Mlodinow – author of The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives – points out: “According to a 2001 study of Bordeaux wines, a one-point bump in Robert Parker’s wine…
Just a fun fact for this lovely Friday. In 1919, Raymond Orteig offered a prize of $25,000 for the first nonstop aircraft flight between New York and Paris. The Orteig Prize was the early 20th century equivalent to X PRIZE’s Ansari Challenge. Competitions like these that are used for grand innovation are fantastic examples of…
Badgeville has become the first gamification provider for TIBCO’s tibbr–an enterprise social networking platform. “Badgeville will be available in the tibbr Apps Marketplace, and will make it possible for tibbr users to earn contextually relevant rewards mapped to their expertise and contributions within the tibbr platform.” via Badgeville’s Blog
The sports world has a new player in town and it’s being backed by Drew Brees and Rob Dyrdek. WedgeBuster is being called the “Zynga for sports” with its new gaming platform. The idea is that WedgeBuster aggregates the top sports, fantasy sports, and social sports games all within one place, or one app. By using…
Spigit, the maker of collaborative innovation management software for enterprises, has recently acquired Crowdcast. Crowdcast provides social business intelligence solutions and raised $6M in Series A funding in 2010. Spigit is aiming to provide market services and solutions that give organizations the ability to gain insight on the collective intelligence of its professional network. Crowdcast will play the…
Bunchball announced that they are partnering with SugarCRM. Bunchball’s Nitro platform will enable gamification features on Sugar’s Professional, Corporate, Enterprise, and Ultimate suite editions. Read more about this story on DestinationCRM.com. Also, read about Nitro’s (Bunchball) recent news about their Salesforce integration
Many people have submitted questions to virtual schools about whether of gamification is being utlized in the structure and model of learning. The quick answer is Yes! However, the momentum and legitimacy of it is just getting started. Here are some answers to some questions:
Each week on the Gamification Revolution web show, Gabe Zichermann answers all your burning gamification questions LIVE. Be sure to catch Gabe’s next show on Tuesday, October 2nd at 1 PM ET/10am PT/1800 GMT at http://gamification.co/live. If you missed Gabe’s live show on Monday, here’s a rundown on some of the topics covered: A user question about the…
First off, we’d like to welcome our newest members to the gamification space: Snoop Dogg, Edward Norton, Sophia Bush, Kristen Bell, Eva Longoria, Jonah Hill, John Legend, and Paul Pierce. They have all taken part in Zynga & American Express’s Words With Friends Celebrity Challenge to donate $500,000 to their favorite charity. Here’s how we…
MTV is using gamification as part of their latest election year outreach to increase youth turnout at the polls. Inspired by Fantasy Football, MTV’s Fantasy Election ’12 is a much better strategy for the music network’s Rock The Vote effort than, say, P. Diddy threatening to kill you. Here are 5 reasons why you should start…
Hello gamification students! Below is the study guide for week 3 of the Coursera gamification class. If you haven’t seen any statistics for the class at this point, they have been pretty astounding so far: Approximately 10,700 students successfully submitted Written Assignment 2. This compares to 12,800 submitting Written Assignment 1. Over 43,000 students have…
Experts Talk Gamification for Work and Life Stanford Business School hosted what was probably the most insightful discussion on the current status and future of gamification. Margaret Wallace, chief executive of Playmatics, led the group discussion on gamification. The 5 speakers were Courtney Guertin, chief technology officer of Kiip; Rajat Paharia, founder and chief product…
It’s pretty amazing to see where scorecards have been used. Since scorecards are used to keep track of score and to motivate, they’re seen in many different scenarios. The most common use of a scorecard is probably in sports, which we see everyday. During a trip to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, I saw a…
Potential for Gamification Utilization in Business Process Management The full potential of Gamification still remains relatively untapped within the corporate setting but in a recent report by Gartner, Business Process Management (BPM) is poised to seize the opportunity. In the report, research director, Elise Olding, provides her key findings and recommendations for BPM in employing…
