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Warfare, Gamified The Norwegian Army has found a way to gamify tank warfare by equipping its tank crews with Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets, according to a recent Motherboard article. The headset is hooked up to four VR cameras mounted on the outside of the tank, allowing the soldiers inside to have a 360-degree view…
Last week, we featured Rabobank‘s Gamification Hub manager, Maarten Molenaar to discuss Rabobank’s gamification initiatives and what internal measures were taken by the Dutch banking and financial services company to achieve its business objectives with gamification.
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Happy Social Media Week! This week on the gamification news roundup, we explore the power of gaming in a social and enterprising context. The office could be changed forever if Gartner is right about the need for gamification in BPM implementation and if the Microsoft Kinect ends up in everyone’s office. And in light of Social Media…
Customer service plays a vital role in business but truth be told, having to deal with customer complaints and troubleshooting for hours on end can be rather disengaging, until now. Freshdesk is here to tackle customer support challenges with their recently announced gamified platform, Freshdesk Arcade. With their gamified help desk, Freshdesk aims to transform…
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, Gabe discusses how the rise of autism will make engagement even more important in his closing keynote at GSummit. He then gets into Memecube’s success as the world’s first gamified conference Twitter app, debuting at GSummit. Get the full story by watching the video below:
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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:
Primarily aimed at an international audience, hotel chain Marriott has just released a Facebook game designed to introduce prospective employees to the hospitality industry. MyMarriottHotel allows players to take on the role of a hospitality manager. Currently, the only “mini-game” takes place in the kitchen, where players must cook, buy supplies, and get dishes to the counter,…
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 Bunchball Co-Founder, Rajat Paharia.
In Rajat’s second appearance on the show since December, he and Gabe talk about the book’s rise up the New York Times Best Seller List and have a deep discussion on the current shortcomings of the loyalty industry. What’s holding loyalty back now and what will it have to do to really sustain itself in the future? For more information on Rajat’s new book, check out Loyalty30.com. Watch the full video to find out:
For more information on Rajat’s new book, check out Loyalty30.com
According to WANTED Analytics, hiring demand for gamification skills are up 293% from 2011. While the trend for hiring demand is on an upward path, there has been a slight 1% decrease in demand since July 2012. WANTED Analytics also analyzed job postings followed by Wire Telecommunications Carriers and All Other Telecommunications and concluded the…
The most effective educational games are the ones that teach students who are unaware they’re learning. Using the puzzle game DragonBox, the Washington State Algebra Challenge rewards students for learning algebra through innovative gameplay.
The competition isn’t even over yet and the goal of 250,000 problems solved is long-past achieved.
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 week’s guest was Mark Goldstein, Chairman of BackOps and loyalty industry veteran.
Be sure to catch our next episode this Thursday, August 1 at 1PM ET/1800 GMT, where we feature Tacy Trowbridge, who is the Head of Education Programs at Adobe. Watch the show to learn about all of Adobe’s gamified education initiatives!
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In this week’s episode, Gabe and Mark discuss the problems that exist in modern loyalty, why they’re there, and how to overcome them. One great quote from Mark:
“The problem with most loyalty programs is that people simply don’t level up to get to the fun part”
What does he mean? Watch the episode below to find out:
In the ever involving world of marketing, gamification has come to be regarded as one of the most effective and profitable methods in use today. Granting brands the ability to have a greater influence on consumer behavior, it is an effective strategy for garnering long term consumer interest. In recent years the trend towards employing gamification has been on the increase. While more and more companies are utilizing this relatively new method of engaging its customers, many have already implemented it into their marketing strategy and seen tremendous benefits.
One such company that has been successfully using gamification for years is eBay, the internet’s number one auction site.
This is the full interview between Gamification Co’s Eric Bruenner and Buster Benson, continued from the selections. Eric: I used to be a writer and have been looking for a way to get back into writing. I stumbled upon your site, 750words.com, separately from gamification, but it’s use of gamification principles has gotten me writing…
