In today’s feature of GSummit 2012 speakers is Karsten Januszewski. Karsten is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. He is, at heart, a developer. He’s been writing code since he was 12 years old and been making a living as a software engineer for the last 15 years, with Microsoft for the last 9 years. He’s…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Following up on the meme that’s spreading like wildfire today, I thought you might find it amusing to see our view of “What Gamification Practitioners Do”. Click on the image to see the full size version, and feel free to share your thoughts. 🙂
This past weekend Natasha Singer at the New York Times tried her hand at summarizing Gamification in a short form piece. Setting aside the obvious fact that to cover an industry as broad, big and rapidly growing as ours is tough at best, the lack of common sense in the piece is glaring. My favorite…
One of the most interesting things I’ve learned about myself over the past few years of Gamification Workshops and as head of the Founder Institute in NYC (application deadlines are nigh!) is how much I enjoy teaching. This year, I hope to have ever more opportunities to educate. In keeping with that vision, and as…
We’ve all read something along these lines before: “Company X announces new internal social network with gamification features”. With big names such as Samsung and Salesforce using this technology, there is clearly value to be had in having these gamified social networks. Inclusion of badges, points, and leaderboards all lead to increased user engagement but what happens…
Over the last 3 years, I’ve had the privilege of analyzing, deconstructing and helping design gamification for many companies and non-profits. Since the publication of my first book, Game-Based Marketing (now available in audiobook format), there has been an ever-increasing clamor for process, methodology and systems that can be used to make gamification more repeatable…
Historically, games have focused on competition. Gambling, video games, board games, and athletic sports are often defined by having a winner. On Forbes a few weeks ago, author Haydn Shaughnessy looked at the rise of gamification and the return of game-like competition to the workplace. According to him, too many corporations focus solely on collaboration…
Recently the NTSB released a report that strongly recommended a complete ban on driving and using mobile devices. Obviously, this would be an extremely difficult behavior to change. Gamification has been uniquely successful at changing such entrenched behaviors, so it occurred to us that it would be interesting to apply some gamified innovation techniques to topical…
by Kevin Shane and Jeff Lopez On the first month in gamification, we held the inaugural Gamification Summit in San Francisco, kicking off a year that has proven to be an exciting one for the industry as a whole. From funding rounds, to innovative products, to analysis and predictions, 2011 has seen the acceleration of…
