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Community PlanIt Makes a Game out of Fixing Community Issues

Heong Weng Mak13 years ago13 years ago05 mins

Community planning meetings are often times an unpleasant experience for any potential attendees. Participants occasionally have to deal with long-winded formal proceedings, dull meetings and repetitive discussion points just to put forth their personal inputs on key issues. In short, this traditional form of civic planning can be a rather inefficient and tedious process, which discourages local residents from actual engagement.

Now, what if there was a way to make civic planning not only simpler to participate but engaging as well? Designed by the Engagement Game Lab at Emerson College (one of many labs across the US), Community PlanIt is a game that aims to get local citizens more involved with community planning.

Why Treating Gamification as a Tool, Not the Goal, May Be the Key

Clark Buckner12 years ago12 years ago06 mins

Here on the second day of GSummit, Content Manager Ashley Tate of BigDoor stopped by to provide us with some unique insights into the gamification industry. BigDoor’s unique angle comes from the perspective of a customer loyalty company that uses gamification as simply one tool of many to carry out their programs. BigDoor started 5…

Enterprise

Gamification on the Cisco Blog

admin15 years ago13 years ago01 mins

In this recent post on the Cisco blog, Dannette Veale uses common examples to help illustrate what gamification really means – like Foursquare, Quest to Learn charter school, Evoke and Wii Fit. She also quotes Gabe Zichermann and his now famous SAPS model for rewards systems. The article also mentions GSummit and how it sold…

Experts

Get my GrassrootsCamp Talk

Gabe Zichermann15 years ago13 years ago01 mins

Thanks to everyone who came to see me speak at GrassrootsCamp on Monday. My updated presentation can be seen right here: Game Mechanics & Funware for Non-Profits View more presentations from Gabe Zichermann. If you’re interested in learning more about how game mechanics can be effective in every kind of business, you should attend our…

How Kiip is Making Rewards Work

Ivan Kuo13 years ago13 years ago01 mins

Entrepreneur prodigy Brian Wong has been sharing Kiip’s great case studies and strategies at GSummit ever since the first one in 2011. Check out his talk from GSummit 2013 to see what Kiip has been up to since then, the great success they’ve been achieving as a mobile rewards platform, and what it really means to “capture the moment”

If you’re interested in seeing Brian’s slides from his presentation, you can download it from the GSummit SF 2013 Slides page and be sure to subscribe to your YouTube channel to get all the latest videos as they come.

The Psychology Behind Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation with Michael Wu

Ivan Kuo13 years ago10 years ago32 mins

The Gamification Revolution is the only live gamification webcast featuring Gabe Zichermann and fellow gamification experts every week. Be sure to catch our next episode tomorrow on Wednesday, October 9 at 1PM ET/1800 GMT, where we will feature prominent gamification community figure, Yu-Kai Chou.

Remember you can participate in the show if you sign-in and RSVP! Signing in will allow you to receive show reminders, ask questions, and even join Gabe and our guest for a live question.

Last week, Lithium’s Chief Scientist Michael Wu came on the show to discuss the psychology behind engagement and motivation. During the show he mentions the following on the morality of motivating others intrinsically:

“Engaging with people through their intrinsic motivations isn’t good or bad…it’s just the way it is”

What does he mean? Watch the full episode below to get a thorough explanation of the meaning behind intrinsic/extrinsic motivation, how motivation changes over time, and a glimpse into Lithium’s IT security practices:

Download this episode (right click and save)

SolarWinds Drives Customer Loyalty And More With Gamification

Natalija Knaidele12 years ago12 years ago03 mins

Thwack Gamifies User Support and Drives Engagement SolarWinds (@solarwinds) is a self-described IT generalist company that has employed a social community dubbed “thwack” (@thwack) to provide a venue in which customers, employees, resellers and visitors can connect with one another in a place where they both share and learn. Several years ago SolarWinds gamified thwack, so…

Announcing 12 New GSummit Speakers for SF 2013

Gabe Zichermann13 years ago13 years ago16 mins

The GSummit speakers roster for this year’s event(SF, April 16-18, 2013) just keeps getting better and better. To support 2013’s themes of strategy, loyalty and engagement, we’ve just announced over a dozen new speakers. This brings our roster to 80 world-class engagement experts in multiple categories, making this the biggest and best GSummit ever. Here are some of the highlights from our latest group of amazing speakers. Be sure to check out their talks: they’re controversial, entertaining, informative and game-changing. We’ve got major content tracks for marketing, HR/Enterprise, Learning/Training, community, design and more.

Be sure to register now to reserve your conference/workshop space. Spots are going quickly, and if your job involves designing engagement you’ll definitely want to learn, network and earn your certification this year at GSummit.

Be sure to see the newly announced speakers and sessions – and some of my notes after the jump:

Experts

Finally, We’re Getting Somewhere

Gabe Zichermann15 years ago13 years ago61 mins

There’s been a bit of back and forth about my best-selling book, Gamification by Design in recent days. After reading the book itself, you can check out the opening review from PhD student Sebastian Deterding here, my measured response here, and his latest (not unexpected reply) here. Now that we’re all caught up, at the…

Experts

The G-List: Kris Duggan

Danyell Thillet15 years ago13 years ago01 mins

An inside look at Kris Duggan: CEO and Founder at Badgeville [SlideDeck id=’880′ width=’100%’ height=’450px’] You can read more of Kris’s thoughts by following him on Twitter: @kduggan And don’t miss hearing him speak at the Gamification Summit in January!

Interview: Bringing Together Brands and Individuals for Good

Jeff Lopez15 years ago13 years ago01 mins

I recently sat down with Veer Gidwaney, founder and CEO of DailyFeats, to discuss some of the ways that the company is helping to “get people to achieve their maximum potential every single day” using gamification, points, and badges (or in this case “feats”). We introduced DailyFeats earlier in our blog, but some of the most…

Experts

Gilt Groupe Founder to Keynote GSummit NYC

admin15 years ago13 years ago01 mins

Today we are announcing the addition of a new keynote for the Gamification Summit New York, to be held on September 15-16, 2011. We are excited to have Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, Co-Founder of Gilt Groupe, as keynote speaker, where she will discuss her vision and success in making retail fun again through the innovative and…

Consumer

Squarz Uses Game Mechanics to Make Deals Fun

Staff14 years ago13 years ago01 mins

Everyone loves a good deal, but what if you could also get the chance to win an even better deal? Throw in a sporting event, and you’ve got Squarz , a sweepstakes that uses gamification to add an extra element of fun to specials and promotions. Based on the popular sports pool Office Squares, every…

Evacuating NYC – the Gamification Edit

Gabe Zichermann15 years ago13 years ago41 mins

So recently, Hurricane Irene came blowing through NYC. In the days leading up to the event, city officials did a (perhaps too) great job of letting citizens know how to prepare for a disaster, and – even more importantly – how to gauge the risk. This risk display system could use a little editing, leveraging…

Consumer

My Favorite Gamified Movie of 2010: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

Danyell Thillet15 years ago13 years ago03 mins

The year is almost at an end, which means everyone is creating their “Best of 2010” lists. A film that I know is on many of those lists is also one of my favorites from this past year: Scott Pilgrim VS. The World. There are many reasons why I enjoy this film. The characters are…

Gamify Your Morning Snooze with Wake N Shake

Duolingo: Game Based Learning of Languages

Fun in the Sun: Gamified Mobile Rewards at Six Flags Parks and Ask.com

Research in Gamification Theory and Factors of Success

EpicMix Takes Gamification to the Slopes

Big Door Opens the Minibar

Community PlanIt Makes a Game out of Fixing Community Issues

Why Treating Gamification as a Tool, Not the Goal, May Be the Key

Gamification on the Cisco Blog

Get my GrassrootsCamp Talk

How Kiip is Making Rewards Work

The Psychology Behind Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation with Michael Wu

SolarWinds Drives Customer Loyalty And More With Gamification

Announcing 12 New GSummit Speakers for SF 2013

Finally, We’re Getting Somewhere

The G-List: Kris Duggan

Gilt Groupe Founder to Keynote GSummit NYC

Squarz Uses Game Mechanics to Make Deals Fun

Evacuating NYC – the Gamification Edit

My Favorite Gamified Movie of 2010: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World