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…
Today in our ongoing GList series, we’re featuring Rajat Paharia: As the founder and Chief Product Officer of Bunchball, Rajat Paharia knows a thing or two about the gamification industry. Rajat pioneered the first gamification platform, Nitro, in 2007 and has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies to create some of the most successful gamified…
Hello GCo Readers! In light of the passing holiday, I would like to present this roundup in the guise of remembering the fallen startups of our past. The news presented this week will allow you to incorporate gamification for loyalty, check out one case where gamification didn’t work, inspire you about gamification in recruitment, and…
This week on the Gamification Roundup we have a number of interesting articles for the gamification enthusiast to ponder: Rajat Paharia of Bunchball provides some gamification patterns to consider for enterprise implementation. IBM is rewarding office weightloss with cash but has users input their own data. The Asian Games market is growing rapidly – could…
This week on the Gamification Roundup, we got news filled with possibilities. NextJump provides an leisurely gameplay platform akin to Draw Something, GDC Online is making a gamification summit in Austin, Bunchball writes an article about the work ethic of millenials, International scientists create an epidemic game to research disease outbreak models, and Bluewolf and Bunchball partner up to…
This week on the gamification roundup, we’ve got some good news on new releases in the gamification world. Jive is rolling out an Advanced Gamification Module with Bunchball, Outbid is bringing social elements and gamification into the auction world, Energy Battle cuts energy consumption by 45%, Katie Salen talks about newly learned gaming principles for…
One of the things companies most want to accomplish with gamification is to offer scalable personalization. In an ideal world, e-commerce, social and behavior-change sites would offer entirely personalized views of game mechanics like challenges, achievements, leaderboards, etc. Just as targeted advertising has helped raise click-through rates, so too would personalized gamification be better able…
This week on the Gamification Roundup we have big news from Bunchball and their game-changing introduction of their new Flamethrower platform. Other game changers include Zeebox’s social-TV rolling out onto the states later this year, the UVA Bay Game that organically fostered great collaborations, and a scavenger hunt created by three librarians that’s changing the…
We’re beyond excited to announce Gamification Summit 2012, which will take place in San Francisco June 19-21. Coming on the heels of 2011’s awesome, sold out events in NYC and SF, GSummit 2012 (our only major US event this year) promises to deliver even more of the hands-on, data-rich learning, networking and fun that helps…
Enterprise gamification (aka using game thinking and mechanics to engage employees and partners) is getting more interesting every day. Following on the heels of Bunchball’s moves to connect gamification platforms to major enterprise software, Badgeville today announced a unified enterprise connector initiative. Cloud Connectors makes official their longstanding connection with Omniture, and adds Jive and…
Awesome attendees and super engagement were the themes of the night at the first GSummitX meetup in NYC on November 30 at AOL Headquarters. When you put 45 people in a room, most of them strangers to one another, the level of engagement is generally networkish-y, but we got beyond and leveled up with this…
This past week has seen the release of a flurry of articles around the web that highlight the business side of gamification. Following an updated announcement by Gartner that 70% of the Global 2000 organizations will have at least one gamified app by 2014, authors have raced to demonstrate how it has already taken hold in many different…
Along with the keynote at today’s JiveWorld2011, gamification is making a big splash. Platform company Bunchball announced that they will be integrating their Nitro platform with Jive in order to bring game mechanics into the leading social business software platform. Jive combines collaboration software, community software, and social applications, and makes for an easy fit for…
Mediator Greg Johnson, of Fooda leads panelists Jesse Redniss, the head of digital at USA Networks, Rijat Paharia of Bunchball, Michael Ahern of Major League Baseball advanced media, Esteban Contreras of Samsung, and Brandon Evans founder of CrowdTap in a lively discussion about how you, the consumer, are the link between Twitter, democracy and crowdsourcing….
Mediator Greg Johnson, of Fooda leads panelists Jesse Redniss, the head of digital at USA Networks, Rijat Paharia of Bunchball, Michael Ahern of Major League Baseball advanced media, Esteban Contreras of Samsung, and Brandon Evans founder of CrowdTap in a lively discussion about what Twitter, democracy and crowdsourcing have in common. The answer is: You….
