Imagine yourself managing your very own virtual farm and being able to obtain fresh, organic produce, delivered right to your door step. This description seems more befitting to the popular Facebook game Farmville but it is not entirely based on virtual fiction. This concept is brought to reality by a farming cooperative in Kyrgyzstan which…
The #1 School for Entrepreneurship (both Undergraduate & MBA) is definitely on top of their game in engaging their community with the hottest topics & strategies in business. This time up, GAMIFICATION. Babson College, the Babson Alumni Club of NYC, and GamificationCo delivered a stellar evening to the Babson Alumni of NYC this past October…
The Marketo and Badgeville collaboration known as The Marketing Nation has announced their virtual event taking place on Wednesday, November 14 beginning at 8AM PST, designed for those who want to improve their marketing capabilities. The event will be a half-day event featuring 15 sessions and will showcase over 30 companies’ experiences with marketing platforms. Join…
Gamification warns designers about the dangers of using leaderboards as a measure of success for its members. Citing its loss of meaning for players if they aren’t first place, many cap the potential of the leaderboard as a meaningful game element for all. Trials Evolution is a side-scrolling motorcycle game with an excellent physics engine. Trials Evolution’s…
We’re less than a week away for our first event in Australia–gsummitX AUS. This Monday & Tuesday (12-13 November), we’re bringing together top experts in gamification, engagement & loyalty for two days. Day 1 will start off with the only gamification workshop that offers a gamification certification, facilitated by Gabe Zichermann. Day 2 continues with an…
Each week on the Gamification Revolution web show, Gabe Zichermann answers all your burning gamification questions LIVE every Monday at 1pm ET/10am PT/1800 GMT at http://gamification.co/live. This week’s show features Nir Eyal, GSummit Speaker, Stanford Lecturer, and serial entrepreneur. Here’s a rundown on some of the topics they spoke about: Gabe’s opinion on the Coursera coursework Nir defines his…
Every year millions… No, make that billions… Of our country’s tax dollars and philanthropic funds are funneled into university scientific research labs to facilitate revolutionary – even world saving – studies. But what happens to the all that research? Where do all these world saving discoveries end up? According to three British PhD students, “95…
Bunchball has announced its inaugural Gamification Rockstar Roadshow event in San Francisco on December 4th to showcase some of its best success stories and product demos from a number of their customers, including Adobe, Bluewolf, CrowdFlower, Zamzee, and Course Hero. The event will also be demonstrating some of the specific use-cases of Bunchball’s Nitro platform,…
Amidst all the arguments about gamification’s off-putting nomenclature, trivializing problems, and it not being about playing games, it would be a mistake to not at least consider the study of games as a point of reference to better understand gamification. If you can accept Richard Bartle’s player types as a model for gamification player design,…
By the age of 19, up to 25% of people will have faced depression. The teenage years are formative years for everyone, and it is not a surprise that these years may be filled with confusing and hard-to-deal with emotions. To make matters worse, most teens fail to receive the proper cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)…
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, many people on the Eastern Seaboard have realized the value of a candle, canned food, and a functioning elevator. Most people were ill-prepared for Sandy’s wrath. However had most people known about The Red Cross’ First Aid application for iOS and Android, they might have prepared a little better. The…
Gigya has announced the launch of their new NEXUS Partner Ecosystem, which will allow their social infrastructure to connect to a large host of marketing services and applications. All the data connected through Gigya’s social infrastructure and gamification services can now be made available on a permission-based system used to fuel automated marketing campaigns. The NEXUS Partner Ecosystem…
Gamification of fitness is nothing particularly new with the likes of Nike+, Striiv and Fitocracy. However, a leader from the gaming industry has began to delve into foray with its new startup, Fitness Interactive Experience. Founded by Mike Tinney, former president of the online game company CCP Games North America (the makers of MMOG EVE…
Each week on the Gamification Revolution web show, Gabe Zichermann answers all your burning gamification questions LIVE every Monday at 1pm ET/10am PT/1800 GMT at http://gamification.co/live. This week’s show features Kevin Werbach, Professor at the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania and professor of the Coursera Gamification Course. Here’s a rundown on some of the topics they spoke about:…
After having just been out for 13 months* now, Contest Builder for Salesforce is now being managed by a separate company called LevelEleven and has just secured a $1M round by Detroit Venture Partners and ePrize. TechCrunch cites the app as being the #1 gamification app on Salesforce AppExchange’s popularity chart and its the most…
