Drupal, a free and open source content management system (CMS), has most recently been gamified using Badgeville’s successful behavioral platform. Drupal is used by 2.1% of all websites, and they are looking to increase engagement and use of their open source products. Hoping to increase loyalty, satisfaction, and retention, Drupal wants to maximize desired behavior…
The financial services sector is now taking gamification seriously and with the help of True Office, employee compliance training has never been more engaging. True Office, a one year-old startup, has attained some success working with several financial services by gamifying regulatory compliance training. Currently being tested in three banks, the startup’s product aims to…
The Detroit-based startup, ePrize, has announced the release of their Sales Contest Builder application for Salesforce. Available through Salesforce AppExchange, the incentive system is already in use by heavy hitters such as Comcast, Federal Signal and even the Detroit Pistons. The Sales Contest Builder works in a simple feedback loop: goals are created for any…
VANCOUVER, BC – August 28, 2012 – Pug Pharm Productions Inc., a technology leader in customer gamification, retention, and activation, today announced that it has extended its Picnic™ Customer Engagement Engine to support integration with websites built using WordPress. Building upon Picnic’s™ existing support for Javascript, Flash, and mobile platform integration launched last year, Pug…
Image via chooyutshing In today’s market spaces, everyone is focusing on user and fan engagement. For startups, strong fan engagement is a great indicator of a promising start. For established brands, they may want to slowly transition their public image or create a massive movement for more engagement. For companies of any size, it…
The following is an Op-Ed by Michael Bertrand, Project Manager and Marketing Associate at TemboSocial This year gamification will have 20% of Global 2000 organizations playing, and by 2014 this number is expected to rise to 70%. Enterprise gamification takes elements from computer gaming and integrates them into your business to encourage a desired behavior, such…
In addition to ClassDojo’s recent VC success this week, Lumosity has just raised $31.5M in series D funding for their cognitive exercise games. The round was led by Discovery Communications and a number of existing investors to bring Lumosity’s total funding up to about $70M. Lumosity’s cognitive exercise games were created to combat declining neurological functions…
If you want your employees to thoroughly grasp new techniques, consider finding a way to make the learning into a game. It may sound quite unorthodox to use principles of game interaction to teach adults new business concepts, but the benefits of gamification in the workplace are proven. The effective relationship between games and learning has been studied in…
FedEx has successfully launched a new social collaboration platform for its employees to reward them for sharing information with others. For a company that has been dominant in their market space for 40 years, FedEx has realized that they must “reinvent” themselves to stay successful for another 40 years. Meet Bryan Barringer, the new manager…
Last week, United launched the MileagePlus Digital Media Store so that all their 70 million members could have more options to spend their miles on. Krishnan Sarananthan, managing director of Mileageplus and GSummit keynote, stated that customers were wanting to redeem their miles for something other than another flight. He touted: “Some of our members are…
This week in the GBase, we have three new examples added for Finance, Consumer Applications, and Productivity: Blast Rate – is a fun way to organize and rate images from Flickr Misys Mobile – is a mobile banking feature from Misys that encourages frugal spending with social elements, points, achievements, and leaderboards. Users can even earn…
San Francisco based startup Kiip has just secured a deal with UK-based sushi chain Yo! Sushi for Kiip’s mobile rewards network. The rewards network has been very successful so far, having gotten a recent $11M Series B funding and this partnership would mark Kiip’s first entry into the international market. Kiip’s current strategy has lent itself very well…
Today in our Gamification Company Database we have three unique gamified applications to share with you today: TravelSmart Tracker – is a gamified experience focused around creating your own personalized travel infographic to show the health impacts of your traveling. Changers – is a solar company that sells a solar panel bundled with a device to monitor…
The New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority has recently announced that they will be selling MetroCard advertising for prices ranging from 18¢ to 51¢ per card. Whether or not this will be the solution to the MTA’s financial woes will remain to be seen. However, there is an opportunity to create a massive game with the collective minds of…
Gamification leader Badgeville announced their first summit focused on educating businesses on the implementation of game, reputation, and social mechanics to their digital business model for behavior management. Recognizing the need to educate businesses on effective gamification, Badgeville will host Badgeville University—a two day summit held in San Francisco from Aug 8 to Aug 9. Day 1 will…
