The Coursera Gamification course has officially ended its first semester with a total of 8,620 people passing the course to receive a certificate of recognition! In an email addressed to all the students in the course, professor Werbach stated: “This is an unusually high number for a course of this type…” Indeed, given that this…
Each week on the Gamification Revolution web show, Gabe Zichermann answers all your burning gamification questions LIVE every Monday at 1pm ET/10am PT/1800 GMT at http://gamification.co/live. On this week’s show, Gabe answered a myriad of user questions about gamification. Here’s a rundown on the topics covered this week: Gabe talks about his lessons learned with working in gamification in…
The rise of the internet and social media has overshadowed the once all encompassing power of billboards, print ads and television. With the waning of traditional media outlets, gone also are the days brands could just reach out and attracts customers with a single, linear message. To tackle these new challenges, advertisers are changing their…
Mobile advertising is a huge business that is currently being dominated by those running ad networks. A rift has been caused between advertisers and consumers because consumers are being less responsive to current mobile ads—which are mainly miniature versions of ads seen on your computer. Lars Albright, the visionary of iAd—Apple’s mobile advertising, saw…
Top Trends in Loyalty Last week was Badgeville’s Engage event in NYC and I had the chance to hear Mark Goldstein, CEO and founder of LoyaltyLab, talk about his top 10 trends in loyalty. Gamification is reinventing the loyalty space and it is critical to be aware of these trends as gamification continues to grow…
gsummitX Europe is two days away and in light of our event, we’ve been maintaining a list of some of the top examples of gamification in Europe. Today, we’re announcing our winner: Gamisfaction stole the show with a whopping 120 total user votes and is our top example of gamification in Europe with their gamified twitter client. Using Gamisfaction,…
Services like DueProps and Rypple (now Work.com) have already demonstrated the power of immediate feedback in the workspace. Anything is better than that awful yearly performance review but what if you had the opportunity to review your boss as well? There is now a new startup that allows employees to freely give constructive feedback to…
Gathering back borrowed money from your friends can be a delicate subject and bankers face a similar predicament when collecting from delinquent borrowers. In order to improve themselves to become better bankers, they would have to learn how to judge individuals and be proficient in debt collection. Thus, BankersLab came up with a training simulation…
In a world of emerging gamification companies offering universal platforms and SaaS solutions, SocialLair is approaching enterprise gamification with a heavy emphasis of customization and social interaction. The origin of SocialLair starts with its CEO, Padmanabh Dabke, and his first experience with creating an idea-management startup. Dabke quickly learned that creating a one-size-fits-all solution simply…
In a humble space that has housed numerous sample sales and the New York City Chocolate Show, Badgeville held an exclusive invite-only event for thought leaders interested in gamification. Located on the second floor of the Metropolitan Pavilion, Badgeville’s Engage 2012 event greeted each attendee with a laissez-faire coat check, a fancy neodymium-magnet ID badge, and…
Social loyalty platform provider PunchTab is leading the pack of its kind, supporting any social media platform you can think of- including Pinterest, Instagram, and SoundCloud. Having just received $5.25M in venture funding, PunchTab is looking to expand to mobile, allowing companies to run campaigns and contests and to interact with end users at the touch…
Each week on the Gamification Revolution web show, Gabe Zichermann answers all your burning gamification questions LIVE every Monday at 1pm ET/10am PT/1800 GMT at http://gamification.co/live. This week’s show features Kes Sampanthar, Director of Media Strategies at Cynergy, The Experience Agency. Here’s a rundown on the topics covered this week: Kes’ beginnings with creating games and Thinkcube How to sustain…
“I picked up the controller and experienced the kind of thrill I imagine people must have had in the 1950s when they heard rock-n-roll for first time. My life has not been the same since.” This was Russell Lovelady, a 23 year old reminiscing how he fell in love with soccer ever since he laid…
Games can be an effective medium of communicating a social cause to its targeted audience and SGN’s Rescue Reef is a prime example of social gaming done right. Rescue Reef is developed by social game developer SGN and it has recently joined forces with Phillip Cousteau’s nonprofit Earth Echo International. The new partnership has resulted in a…
Hello #gamification12 students! It’s all over isn’t it? It has been an amazing journey looking at the beginnings of gamification to the bright future we are at now. We are still seeking some user-accounts about their experiences with the course and would love to talk about them here. Send us an email and you can find yourself on the…
