Each week on the Gamification Revolution web show, Gabe Zichermann answers all your burning gamification questions LIVE. Be sure to catch Gabe’s next show on Tuesday, October 2nd at 1 PM ET/10am PT/1800 GMT at http://gamification.co/live. If you missed Gabe’s live show on Monday, here’s a rundown on some of the topics covered: A user question about the…
First off, we’d like to welcome our newest members to the gamification space: Snoop Dogg, Edward Norton, Sophia Bush, Kristen Bell, Eva Longoria, Jonah Hill, John Legend, and Paul Pierce. They have all taken part in Zynga & American Express’s Words With Friends Celebrity Challenge to donate $500,000 to their favorite charity. Here’s how we…
MTV is using gamification as part of their latest election year outreach to increase youth turnout at the polls. Inspired by Fantasy Football, MTV’s Fantasy Election ’12 is a much better strategy for the music network’s Rock The Vote effort than, say, P. Diddy threatening to kill you. Here are 5 reasons why you should start…
Hello gamification students! Below is the study guide for week 3 of the Coursera gamification class. If you haven’t seen any statistics for the class at this point, they have been pretty astounding so far: Approximately 10,700 students successfully submitted Written Assignment 2. This compares to 12,800 submitting Written Assignment 1. Over 43,000 students have…
Experts Talk Gamification for Work and Life Stanford Business School hosted what was probably the most insightful discussion on the current status and future of gamification. Margaret Wallace, chief executive of Playmatics, led the group discussion on gamification. The 5 speakers were Courtney Guertin, chief technology officer of Kiip; Rajat Paharia, founder and chief product…
It’s pretty amazing to see where scorecards have been used. Since scorecards are used to keep track of score and to motivate, they’re seen in many different scenarios. The most common use of a scorecard is probably in sports, which we see everyday. During a trip to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, I saw a…
Potential for Gamification Utilization in Business Process Management The full potential of Gamification still remains relatively untapped within the corporate setting but in a recent report by Gartner, Business Process Management (BPM) is poised to seize the opportunity. In the report, research director, Elise Olding, provides her key findings and recommendations for BPM in employing…
TED has finally released Gabe’s second TEDx video entitled – “Changing the Game in Education”. Gabe goes through some of his favorite gamification examples and explains how games will be the driving force of innovation in this world. Watch the full video right here:
The Following is an Op-Ed by Alden Gannon, CEO of PropsToYou PropsToYou (http://propstoyou.com) is a new kind of gamified productivity application for teams. It allows you to track tasks, projects and assignments, but it adds a whole new twist. While most gamified systems are based in counting clicks or rewarding specific goals, the PropsToYou awards…
Salesforce Unveils Work.com at Dreamforce 2012 After acquiring it a year ago and just recently rebranding it, Salesforce takes Rypple and reinvents it once more into Work.com during their Dreamforce conference yesterday. Rypple on its own was initially just a social management performance platform – one that emphasizes a social collaborative approach over that of…
Limited-Time Offer Delivers Everything Organizations Need to Gamify Their Salesforce Platform to Increase Adoption, Chatter Use, Data Quality and Completion, and More Bunchball has released a free 30-day license of Nitro for Salesforce as a part of their announcements at Dreamforce 2012. This is a fantastic solution for those looking to adopt some gamification without…
Latest Release of Bunchball’s Nitro™ for Salesforce Gets Users Up and Running in Just Minutes Nitro has announced the release of a new version of their Nitro gamification platform for use in Salesforce. Featuring new items like a startup wizard and custom leaderboards, Nitro is really pushing to increase usability and adoption rate of their gamification tools…
Coursera Gamification Class – Week 2 Hope the transition out of Summer isn’t getting you too down and out! We received a ton of positive feedback for our first study guide and are pleased to provide our lovely readers with our second week’s study guide. Keep up the hard work with the Coursera courses and…
New gamification app helps improve sales performance, productivity, and CRM utilization Badgeville has finally announced their entry into the Salesforce platform via AppExchange. Offering features such as a native-wizard setup, refreshable rewards based on sales, and a direct configuration options via Sales Cloud. Read the full press release below:
The Following is a Guest Post by Juan Carlos Guaqueta, CEO Yourbany Lean Startup Techniques Applied to a Board Game? What? A few months ago, I knew nothing about gamification. It just seemed like an allegorical phrase related to games that someone used to make them games more complicated. After making a few trips to California, I…
