This week, our own Gabe Zichermann compiled a few of the most interesting businesses in gamification in “7 Winning Examples of Game Mechanics in Action“. From marketing to exercise to saving the planet, gamification has brought to light an amazing capability for motivating participation and educating users. The six companies and one individual have innovated around the…
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…
Gamification continues to grow in popularity as an innovative solution to problems in a wide variety of fields from education to healthcare. This rising interest has led to a number of published academic studies all asking the same question: Does gamification really work?
by Justin Schier, Chief Creative Officer Dopamine Inc. @justinschier If you’ve never experienced the British TV phenomenon phenomenon known as Golden Balls, it’s worth watching a bit, even for kitsch value. Even though it went off the air in 2009, there are hours of it available on YouTube. It was basically a just-as-shlocky, slightly more sophisticated…
According to Jen Pahlka, founder and Executive Director of Code for America, trust in government is at an all time low except amongst a single demographic: Millennials. This may seem odd, as our generation is typically seen either in a never ending text conversation, wasting time on Facebook, battling friends on Call of Duty, or clicking on cows in FarmVille. But I see these elements as something different. I believe our “wastes of time” have the ability to make our generation into the most participatory generation in the past two-thousand years. As Pahlka puts it, “it’s not that Millennials think the government works now, it’s that they think they can remake the government in their image”. In line with this idea, collaboration and participation through social media is becoming an integral part of the Government 2.0 movement, and I see games as the next step in the process.
Highlights From This Year’s Games For Change Last week, Games For Change had their 13th annual festival at the New School’s Parsons School of Design. New to the festival this year were three featured tracks participants could focus on: the Games for Learning Summit; health and neuroscience; and civics and social change. Gamification.Co was lucky enough to attend,…
SAP is one of the world’s largest companies, and their user community is enormous, spanning a diverse range of industries in nearly every country. Perhaps surprisingly, SAP’s community has been at the forefront of embracing gamification, using it to drive extraordinary customer loyalty and engagement. Join this fast-paced session by SAP global head of Digital, Social, and Community Marketing Mark Yolton as he discusses the unique opportunities and challenges in creating and sustaining customer engagement around the world in this talk from GSummit SF 2013
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Chrome Experiments is touted as a showcase to demonstrate creative experiments using emerging web-technologies like HTML5, Canvas, SVG, and WebGL. According to TechCrunch, a new experiment has just emerged from Google Japan that will enable you to turn any desktop website into a 3D maze that could also be controlled by your smartphone.
As part of our G-List – the who’s-who of the gamification space – today we have James Gatto, creator and leader of the Pillsbury Law’s Virtual Worlds & Video Games team, leader of the Open Source team and previously headed the firm’s Intellectual Property practice. He will be speaking at the upcoming Gamification Summit in New…
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. 🙂
Playing a game could help uncover a potential cure for breast cancer, lung cancer or any number of diseases that have a genetic component. The game is called Dizeez, and it’s got some geneticists excited about using gamification for health research as a way of potentially crowdsourcing a cure.
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.
Phaedra Boinodiris, the global serious games program manager for IBM, talks about how IBM has used serious games and gamification in the past and how it intends to go beyond its application in training to other areas.
Seeing a company’s employees in a fully collaborative and effective setting is extremely hard to come by these days. As businesses continue to promote cutthroat strategies to encourage individual performance, teamwork is almost non-existent. In fact, it may get so bad that simply communicating with colleagues over an internet chat-platform even becomes tiresome, which also isn’t helped by the fact that most of these communication platforms are hard to understand and difficult to work with.
We were excited to have Maarten Molenaar join us this year at GSummit. Below are his bio, video and slides from GSummit SF 2014: Maarten Molenaar is the manager of the Rabobank Gamification Hub, the virtual network from where he works to implement gamification as a ‘business as usual’ practice within this cooperative bank conglomerate…
Two start-ups in gamification of health have merged to create Habit Labs and achieved an early round of funding. Buster Benson, creator of Health Month, 43 Things, and Locavore, has teamed up with Jen McCabe, founder of Y-Combinator backed health startup, Contagion, to get Habit Labs up and running. They already have a strong foundation with…
