Enterprise gamification (aka using game thinking and mechanics to engage employees and partners) is getting more interesting every day. Following on the heels of Bunchball’s moves to connect gamification platforms to major enterprise software, Badgeville today announced a unified enterprise connector initiative. Cloud Connectors makes official their longstanding connection with Omniture, and adds Jive and…
This week on the Gamification Roundup it’s all about power-ups. From Badgeville parterships to Minecraft education and even your personal life hacks, see how gamification is giving everything a buff!
Editors note: Today, we’re introducing a new regular feature at Gamification.co: our news roundup. With the amazingly increased level of gamification-related announcements and insights, it’s getting harder to keep tabs on everything that’s going on. So, to make it easier, we’ll be curating the most interesting items and delivering them to you in digest form. You…
CNN recently announced that they fired a swath of employees. Now the global news organization has rolled out new features for their citizen journalist platform, iReport in order to make up for the loss in coverage. The features include the first of many badges that aim to encourage users to contribute pictures and footage of news…
In the past, I have been surprised to come across a number of people working on gamification that have never designed games and don’t play them regularly. Luckily, there are also people like Tony Ventrice who works at Badgeville and is a veteran game designer. In the past, he has made games with Playdom and…
This past week has seen the release of a flurry of articles around the web that highlight the business side of gamification. Following an updated announcement by Gartner that 70% of the Global 2000 organizations will have at least one gamified app by 2014, authors have raced to demonstrate how it has already taken hold in many different…
Last week, Samsung was among the first to announce integration of Badgeville’s new behavior platform in Samsung Nation. Samsung has put their weight behind the rollout. Rather than gamify one marketing campaign or a single product site, the company brought gamification into the forefront and integrated the new features throughout the US corporate site. Leaderboards, badges,…
Social validation may sound like a lonely high-schooler’s dream, but in terms of gamification, it is a powerful social mechanic that can expand the user base and keep users honest. Social image is important in the People’s Republic, where “keeping face” is a traditional value, and Kwestr, a new startup out of China, hopes to expand…
In the world of gamification for television, it can sometimes be difficult to tie couch potatoes to an interactive experience, but a few projects have done it well. Pug Pharm, a Canadian leader in gamification and social engagement, teamed up with Switch Design to create a social gameplay platform to the History Channel’s Ice Pilots…
As part of our ongoing G-List of the top players in gamification, today we begin with the platforms that provide technology solutions for implementing game mechanics in marketing, business, and health. Rypple [http://www.rypple.com] Founded: 2008 Location: San Francisco, Toronto, and Atlanta Employees: 25 Funding: $13M total from Peter Thiel, Maynard Webb, and Bridgescale Rypple strives to…
Enterprise gamification, making everyday business tasks such as data entry and management training more engaging, continues to see burgeoning interest. Today, Rachel Emma Silverman from the Wall Street Journal has a piece on gamification of the workplace. With research from Gartner and M2 and quotes from gamification experts Mario Herger, Gabe Zichermann, Kris Duggan, and Byron Reeves, the…
Gamification, “the use of game play elements for non-game applications,” has taken the marketing world by storm, as companies use fun techniques to make their websites, social media, and mobile apps sticky, viral, and engaging to customers. While it’s a hot buzzword for today’s marketers, it’s hardly a new concept for teachers and trainers. In…
Along with the keynote at today’s JiveWorld2011, gamification is making a big splash. Platform company Bunchball announced that they will be integrating their Nitro platform with Jive in order to bring game mechanics into the leading social business software platform. Jive combines collaboration software, community software, and social applications, and makes for an easy fit for…
Though many naysayers continue to shrug off the serious impact of gaming in our culture, there’s no longer any room for doubt in how it is effecting our economy. A recent article by Leena Rao for TechCrunch highlights a study by the University of Maryland of what is being referred to as the “Facebook App Economy” –…
The past year has demonstrated a growing demand for education around gamification, and we are excited to continue to meet this demand with the first ever Gamification Workshop in Asia. As the nascent field is still taking shape, there are few sources of valuable insight and in-depth analysis on how the practice of gamification is…
