June 12, 2026
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Readers Save Legacy Library Content by Crowdsourcing Metadata Games

Bianca Gelli09 mins

The British Library warned: by 2020, legacy content will remain undigitized and in danger of becoming inaccessible to future generations.

Universities, libraries, museums and archives own large amounts of undigitized material in the form of photographs, audio recordings and films that are at serious risk of being lost because of the wear time has put on them. Some are well-documented and just need to be digitized and tagged accordingly, but the problem is that a lot of the materials have little to no description in them. The job of tagging them requires collective input by multiple people to guarantee that the tags are as comprehensive and impartial as they possibly can. It a costly and time consuming task, and it cannot be accurately done by recognition software.

The task of proper tagging is of utmost importance for future access, so is there a way we can motivate people to contribute to the preservation of legacy content while we still have time? Well, games of course!

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Spotlight Expert & GSummit SF 2014 Speaker: Amy Jo Kim

Kevin Shane12 mins

As we move into our next installment of GSummit (June 10-13 in San Francisco), we look at some of our speakers and experts that have helped shape the user engagement space. This week’s Spotlight Expert is Amy Jo Kim (@amyjokim) — Game Designer & Creative Director at ShuffleBRain. Amy helped kick off the very first GSummit back in…

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Spotlight Expert & GSummit SF 2014 Speaker: Andrea Kuszewski

Kevin Shane02 mins

As we move into our next installment of GSummit (June 10-13 in San Francisco), we look at some of our speakers and experts that have helped shape the gamification & user engagement space. This week’s Spotlight Expert is Andrea Kuszewski (@AndreaKuszewski) — Researcher & Manager, Scientific Vortex Group. Andrea has been one of our top rated speakers at GSummit multiple…

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Adam Penenberg: How Games Inspire Breakthrough Thinking

Natalija Knaidele02 mins

In late 2013, Gabe traveled to 12 cities worldwide for GSummit Global, a series of full-day workshops and meetups to bring GSummit closer to gamification fans. As a part of GSummit Global, we also released 10 new webinars and videos by gamification and engagement professionals. We will be releasing them publicly as we keep counting down to GSummit 2014.

Adam Penenberg is a journalism professor at New York University, author of “Play At Work” and editor of PandoDaily, and in this seminar he talks about examples of games in non-game activities from historic methods of teaching human anatomy to modern companies gamifying training.

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Spotlight Gamification Expert: Kevin Werbach

Kevin Shane02 mins

As we move into our next installment of GSummit (June 10-13 in San Francisco), we look at our past GSummit speakers and experts that have helped shape the user engagement space. This week’s spotlight Gamification Expert is Kevin Werbach–Associate Professor at The Wharton School at UPenn and teacher in the massively successful online Gamification Class on…

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New for GSummit SF 2014: Hands-on Labs for ALL Conference Attendees

Kevin Shane07 mins

With the consistently sold-out success of our Certification Workshops at GSummit each year, we decided to add a workshop experience to the regular conference agenda FOR ALL ATTENDEES to participate it. We call them Hands-on Labs and they’re going to be one of the best aspects of this year’s event–guaranteed! Each of the 90-minute Labs will offer a limited group…

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Where is Damascus? UsVsTh3m is Making Cheeky Games for Political Commentary

Kevin Shane16 mins

“Gamification and Activism Done Right”

That was a recent tweet by Chris Albon, a well-known political scientist and coder who writes about using technology for social good. Albon was referring to “Where’s Damascus (Don’t Ask Us)”, a game created by a new little start-up called UsVsTh3m. UsVsTh3m is funded and incubated by UK publisher Trinity Mirror, which like many of its peers, is trying to create new revenue opportunities through a series of cheeky games with political commentary.

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NSA Gamifies Surveillance Training: Ethical or Questionable?

Heong Weng Mak117 mins

There is a recent Der Spiegel report on the NSA gamifying its infamous international surveillance program, XKEYSCORE. Gleaned from a secret report entitled, “Tales from the Land of Brothers Grimm”, it detailed training procedures that were used to motivate NSA agents who are new to the program. Gamification mechanics were used such as how agents could earn “skilz” points and “unlock achievements” as they effectively use the training program. What was startling was that the report indicated the training procedure changed the perception of its users opinion on surveillance after a certain period of time.

Here at Gamification Co, we have covered numerous examples where gamified systems have been used for good in solving problems across industries. Nonetheless, there is a need to address the elephant in the living room where gamification is used for questionable means.

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Melvin Greer on Gamification in STEM, STEAM, and the Government

Ivan Kuo22 mins

The Gamification Revolution is the only live gamification webcast featuring Gabe Zichermann and fellow gamification experts every week. Join us and have all of your gamification questions answered by these experts. This past week’s guest was Melvin Greer, Senior Fellow at Lockheed and Martin

Be sure to catch our next episode this Thursday, July 18 at 1PM ET/1800 GMT, where we feature Tim Chang of the Mayfield Fund (@timechange) as our next guest.

In this week’s episode, Gabe and Melvin dive deep into the developing work happening in teaching STEM and STEAM (the A is for Art) education initiatives. The audience also asks a number of great questions as it relates to learning, knowledge transference, and emerging tech in ed. Melvin also gets into the intricacies with government gamification initiatives and the challenges of their implementation.



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To learn more about gamification in ed and government, follow Melvin on Twitter at @Lead_Innovate. You can also learn about Melvin’s upcoming events and projects at MelvinGreer.com

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