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…
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…
TED has finally released Gabe’s second TEDx video entitled – “Changing the Game in Education”. Gabe goes through some of his favorite gamification examples and explains how games will be the driving force of innovation in this world. Watch the full video right here:
The Following is a Guest Post by Juan Carlos Guaqueta, CEO Yourbany Lean Startup Techniques Applied to a Board Game? What? A few months ago, I knew nothing about gamification. It just seemed like an allegorical phrase related to games that someone used to make them games more complicated. After making a few trips to California, I…
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. If you missed Gabe’s live show on Monday, here’s a rundown on some of the topics covered: How Cash incentives are structured and why they are flawed How gamification in politics…
The following is an Op-Ed by Steve Bocska, CEO of Pug Pharm Productions Steve Bocska is the President and CEO of Vancouver-based Pug Pharm Productions, a technology leader in customer gamification, retention, and activation. Steve has an extensive background as a gameplay designer, designing highly successful video games for companies including Disney Interactive, Electronic Arts,…
In case you weren’t able to make it to our last meetup in NYC, we finally have some video footage of the event for your viewing pleasure. Our first video is of Albert Balcells, SVP of Software Engineering at Next Jump and he talks about Next Jump’s journey in the creation of 10xFactor – an…
After a hugely successful third GSummit this past June in San Francisco, there was a lot of demand to bring our gamification workshop to other parts of the world. We’re happy to announce that we’ll be doing two workshops this Fall in new markets–Europe and Australia. Please note that seats are extremely limited. Join us…
Last Sunday, the Jets took a huge victory over the Bills by a 21-point margin. Sanchez, Tebow, and Greene displayed an exceptional offensive performance as they blasted through the Bills’ defense. Perhaps if the Bills took some defensive lessons from Rex Ryan and his black jerseys during training camp, they would not have given up…
Looking for more Gamification in Europe? You’re in luck! Gamification Co is proud to announce gsummitX Europe this October 24-25 in Berlin, Germany. It’s GCo’s first big step into bringing more gamification to the European market, where the demand has been tremendous. Coming off a hugely successful GSummit 2012 in San Francisco, the European attendees…
Last week, 43 awesome people came and attended our 2nd gsummitX in NYC with great enthusiasm! There was so much excitement, one particular person came an entire hour early. Not entirely a big deal because, since we at GCo love you all so much, we provided the delicious taste of Sam Adams, Hoegaarden, Land Shark…
This week in the GBase, we have three new examples for health and wellness gamification applications: Zombies, Run! – an immersive running game that has players running away from zombies to collect supplies and build up their virtual base Keas – an employee wellness application that places an emphasis on points, badges, and teamwork SlimKicker – is a gamified…
Want to be the first US or Canadian city to have Starbucks’ pumpkin spice latte? From August 21 – August 24, Starbucks will be having a competition to reward a city first access to their pumpkin spice latte but only if they can earn enough points and beat out the rest of the cities. Fans of Starbucks’ Facebook…
Earlier this week, I went to go see the critically-acclaimed documentary Speak. The movie centers around the competition for the World Championship of Public Speaking, run each year by Toastmasters International. According to the New York Times Review, this doc is both deft and innovative – and I would tend to agree. Obviously, I’m really…
The second gsummitX London went really well on Monday night. With over 30 attendees from across the industry we had a chance to meet up at the prestigious Capgemini offices in Holborn Circus.
