The financial services sector is now taking gamification seriously and with the help of True Office, employee compliance training has never been more engaging. True Office, a one year-old startup, has attained some success working with several financial services by gamifying regulatory compliance training. Currently being tested in three banks, the startup’s product aims to…
The Detroit-based startup, ePrize, has announced the release of their Sales Contest Builder application for Salesforce. Available through Salesforce AppExchange, the incentive system is already in use by heavy hitters such as Comcast, Federal Signal and even the Detroit Pistons. The Sales Contest Builder works in a simple feedback loop: goals are created for any…
Last week, 43 awesome people came and attended our 2nd gsummitX in NYC with great enthusiasm! There was so much excitement, one particular person came an entire hour early. Not entirely a big deal because, since we at GCo love you all so much, we provided the delicious taste of Sam Adams, Hoegaarden, Land Shark…
VANCOUVER, BC – August 28, 2012 – Pug Pharm Productions Inc., a technology leader in customer gamification, retention, and activation, today announced that it has extended its Picnic™ Customer Engagement Engine to support integration with websites built using WordPress. Building upon Picnic’s™ existing support for Javascript, Flash, and mobile platform integration launched last year, Pug…
Image via chooyutshing In today’s market spaces, everyone is focusing on user and fan engagement. For startups, strong fan engagement is a great indicator of a promising start. For established brands, they may want to slowly transition their public image or create a massive movement for more engagement. For companies of any size, it…
The Nike Fuelband Review Conclusion After one month with the Fuelband, I have achieved the following: earned 81,403 Fuel, walked 292,717 steps, burned 31,833 calories, traveled 143.22 miles. The whole month so far has been pretty interesting since I’ve incorporated the Fuelband into my lifestyle. I’ve used this little device as both the laziest person in the world and a…
The following is an Op-Ed by Michael Bertrand, Project Manager and Marketing Associate at TemboSocial This year gamification will have 20% of Global 2000 organizations playing, and by 2014 this number is expected to rise to 70%. Enterprise gamification takes elements from computer gaming and integrates them into your business to encourage a desired behavior, such…
This week in the GBase, we have three new examples for health and wellness gamification applications: Zombies, Run! – an immersive running game that has players running away from zombies to collect supplies and build up their virtual base Keas – an employee wellness application that places an emphasis on points, badges, and teamwork SlimKicker – is a gamified…
Want to see Neil Young, The Foo Fighters, and The Black Keys for free at NYC’s Central Park? All you have to do it earn a few points and badges by fighting against poverty! This year’s Global Festival Concert will be taking place on September 29th to help the Global Poverty Project. The date coincides with a U.N….
In addition to ClassDojo’s recent VC success this week, Lumosity has just raised $31.5M in series D funding for their cognitive exercise games. The round was led by Discovery Communications and a number of existing investors to bring Lumosity’s total funding up to about $70M. Lumosity’s cognitive exercise games were created to combat declining neurological functions…
If you want your employees to thoroughly grasp new techniques, consider finding a way to make the learning into a game. It may sound quite unorthodox to use principles of game interaction to teach adults new business concepts, but the benefits of gamification in the workplace are proven. The effective relationship between games and learning has been studied in…
ClassDojo, founded by Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don, has recently announced that they have received $1.6M in seed funding for their education startup. The founders set out to solve the most common problem teachers face in the classroom. After asking hundreds of teachers about their issues in the classroom, feedback suggested that teachers felt like…
Just when you thought nothing was sacred in the field gamification- you find out you might be right! Temple Avodah, a temple serving a suburban community of Reform Jews in Oceanside, NY gamified their Friday night services this past week by surrounding the traditional pillars of a kabballat shabbat service with “Jews in baseball”-themed trivia….
Want to be the first US or Canadian city to have Starbucks’ pumpkin spice latte? From August 21 – August 24, Starbucks will be having a competition to reward a city first access to their pumpkin spice latte but only if they can earn enough points and beat out the rest of the cities. Fans of Starbucks’ Facebook…
Earlier this week, I went to go see the critically-acclaimed documentary Speak. The movie centers around the competition for the World Championship of Public Speaking, run each year by Toastmasters International. According to the New York Times Review, this doc is both deft and innovative – and I would tend to agree. Obviously, I’m really…
