When you see a 20×8 foot metal board, you’re probably thinking like me…that Tyler Perry may one day have a zombie themed pizzeria with a coinciding game–the more zombies you kill on screen, the more starving people (in real life) you can feed. This concept, a sure winner, was imagined using a gamified ideation tool…
Mario Herger of Gamifcation-Enterprise and SAP recently gave a workshop in which he and a couple other SAP employees thought of some new applications for gamification. One SAP employee blogged about how his group came up with a way to gamify solutions for problems. One issue they worked on was how to motivate diabetics to do…
This week on the Gamification Roundup we have gamification enabling the opportunity to improve in a variety of ways. Gigya, which was once a widget company, has turned into a integrative social platform solution and now reaches a monthly user base of over 1 Bn. Prescription only iPad games have been developed for improving visual…
Marriage is a beautiful thing…so is the open bar at the wedding. I was at a wedding this past weekend in Long Island (Congrats again Mara & Andrew!!) where we played a little game at the table–we’ll call it gamification of the wedding dinner table. While everyone was sitting down before the salad was served,…
Hello GCo Readers! This news will be particularly interesting to our European-based readers: On March 14, 2012, Future Human will be holding a gamification event at The Book Club and will be featuring a slew of drinks, games, discussions, and presentations. There will also be featuring three guest speakers: Adrian Hon – the co-founder of Six To Start, Louise Downe – senior…
It’s the only time that you’ll see both NYC and Boston win in the same game. GSUMMITx Boston gave the NYC GSUMMITx event a run for its money. Our featured talk by Gabe Zichermann was once again a positively hypnotizing experience. Even though Gabe’s has given his gamification talks multiple times all around the world, each time…
We’re beyond excited to announce Gamification Summit 2012, which will take place in San Francisco June 19-21. Coming on the heels of 2011’s awesome, sold out events in NYC and SF, GSummit 2012 (our only major US event this year) promises to deliver even more of the hands-on, data-rich learning, networking and fun that helps…
This week on the Gamification Roundup we are seeing the allure of gamification. BadgeVille makes another strategic partnership with Ant’s Eye View. Two startups and a university use gamification to reach out to prospective employees and students. Even support teams and corporate wellness initiatives are seeing strong reasons to go towards gamification. Read the full…
If you’re like most people, everyone has a day-of-the week where they clean house. Sure, daily routines are great but it’s not for all households due to the increasing demands on you and the kids schedules. Also, amassing momentum with the kids to get chores done is a daunting task. So what to do? Time to…
Most kids aren’t too excited about doing their chores, but really, who can blame them for their lack of enthusiasm? It’s only natural that they’d rather play video games than fold the laundry. So it’s no wonder many parents are looking for ways to incorporate gamification into daily routines.
The youngest person ever to be involved in gamification has emerged. Thanks to this photo from Toby Beresford, we have a new leader for belching in London! The position for #1 on this Burping Leaderboard goes to his newborn son, Simeon. Congratulations Simeon and to Dad & Mum! Toby is founder of Pailz, (a company that…
Our global, local, free meetup is in Boston tonight (Feb 23, 2012)–GSUMMITx Boston. After a hugely successful GSUMMITx NYC, we created the Boston meetup group. It grew to over 50 people within 2 days, and now to over 120 people. Although, this was no surprise in the piping hot space of Gamification. The event is…
Social photo sharing is currently one of the hottest services out there. Instagram and Pinterest are immensely popular and excellent for sharing pictures but what if these services began to offer more than just sharing? What if the images you were sharing were also proof of your new healthy habits or most recent endeavors? Leap…
Part of our mission at Gamification Co is to catalogue the breadth and depth of gamification across industries. As gamification has grown, one of the top requests from our readers is “Do you have an example of gamification for *insert idea here* ?” While we do have a steady stream of gamification news, we recognize…
This week on the Gamification Roundup we have big news on incentivization and research. In addition to Badgeville’s recent partnership with BazaarVoice, now they are collaborating with Klout. Hearing news of this and an NY Times article on incentivizing civic behavior, we may soon have all our actions incentivized with the promise of glorious prizes…
