In the same vein as sites like Rypple and Chromarama, the Email Game seeks to gamify something both everyday and routine: in this case, your email. It seeks more to improve your performance than simply make it enjoyable. In fact, they promise it will improve your performance to the point where you read through your…
As a former English major who never performed very well in high school math, I was convinced that nothing—not even gamification—could help me be good at, let alone enjoy math. Then the Internet introduced me to Sal Khan and his online Khan Academy and turned my whole world upside-down.
Ananth Pai is an elementary school teacher who has two decades of experience in using technology to improve business operations. He has worked in India, Singapore and the United States and is now in his fourth year as a teacher at Matoska International in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. “Mr. Pai, I have a petition and all the…
Games for Health Founder, Ben Sawyer has been endeavoring to bring games into health practices for just over six years. This year, the conference was held on the Boston Harbor, just across from campuses of SCVNGR, IdeaPaint, and Babson College (entrepreneurial leader in education and future site for our Gamification Workshop).
This week, the world of gamification was buzzing. Our recap covers comments by BigDoor’s CEO, Keith Smith on the engagement economy and recent partnership with Major League Baseball. Also, an older video that provides an overview of gamification in education by Extra Credits, as well as Gabe Zichermann’s recent talk at the Nordic Games Conference. Check out…
Innovation and bureaucracy may seem like polar opposites, but companies like Spigit are working to bring them closer together. In the burgeoning world of gamification, it has been well-cited that Gartner predicts half of innovation-based companies will be gamified by 2015. Gartner released a case study on implementing a gamified enterprise solution for the United Kingdom’s…
Rypple is a software company with products aimed at making a better workplace. By using elements of gamification and positive motivation they have created innovative products that borrow elements of feedback from the game world. In the forums and chat windows of Massively Multiplayer Online games, players have occasionally compared their game experiences to the…
Gaming the System: Changing the Course of Online Radicalization Alix Levine is the Director of Research for Cronus Global, a security consulting firm. She specializes in the study of homegrown extremism and online mobilization. You can find her at www.alixlevine.com. We all know that the purpose of gamification is to drive consumer participation. I fly on…
Throughout last year and during the Gamification Summit in San Francisco, we ran a series of full-day hands on gamification workshops. They were piloted in response to the strong market demand we heard for in-depth information and instruction around Gamification. We received valuable feedback from those sessions, and in response to participants’ needs—as well as…
A few weeks back we reported on the new Zappos VIP features that added a layer of gamification to the exclusive shopping tier of the popular online store. Excitement by customers has increased when Zappos launched the new “Outfit Builder” (beta) late last month. This paperdoll-esque interface allows you to browse the selection, pick out items…
The gamification of test-prep. ‘Angry Cars’ and the difference between advergaming and gamification. The weak-points of the gamification movement. And an open sourced solution to gamification. All in this week’s gamification around the web.
Do you have an idea about how to deal with the piracy in the Gulf of Aden? Well, starting next Monday, the US Navy would like to hear it and put it up for a vote in front of the whole Internet. The game is called MMOWGLI, (Massive Multiplayer Online War Game Leveraging the Internet)…
For centuries we’ve been exploring the thin line between fun and work. Many concepts have come and gone that played to this idea – from purely hedonistic options (dropping out) to pseudo-psychology (the secret), and everything in between. However, the two most compelling (and successful) models thus far for making work fun have been rather…
Gamify is slowly coming out of its shell with a recent announcement of a partnership with setiQuest and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. setiQuest is an effort towards community involvement that will lead to a significant improvement in the ability to search for other intelligent civilizations in the cosmos. Gamify is supporting this effort with the Gamify…
Eagle Feathers, Hoof-Prints and War Paint: The Achievements and Awards of the Indians of the Plains Vincent Carrella is the author of the novel Serpent Box (Harper/Perennial). He also writes Giphantia, a weekly blogazine. Imagine you live in a small community of interdependent people. Your very survival depends upon a single source of food and raw…
