April 19, 2026
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How Cisco Drives Social Media Training with Gamification

Leslie Lau06 mins

At Cisco, we use gamification across a number of key programs. One program where we have extensively incorporated gamification techniques is our Social Media Training Program.

During the past two years, the Global Social Media Team at Cisco has invested in our Social Media Training Program. This program offers a unique opportunity for employees and contractors at Cisco to build their social media skillset. And the opportunity to leverage the skills they learn is manifold.

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The Top 20 Companies with Employees That Have Gamification in Their LinkedIn Profile

Kevin Shane31 mins

Who reps gamification the hardest on LinkedIn? This is part two in our series on “Gamification” in Linkedin. See part one here:  Why Gamification Should Be in Your Linkedin Profile. Ever wonder which companies have the most employees interested in gamification? Well, the research is done and we created the Infograph below to show you….

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Innovative Disruption at Cisco’s Global Sales Experience (GSX)

Ivan Kuo12 mins

How can a huge company Cisco manage to engage with all their employees around the world?

GSX is Cisco’s annual sales conference, a globally distributed hybrid event experience that has been lauded for turning traditional event models on their head and pioneering new audience engagement formats. Learn how Cisco adapted social television engagement models to drive the most employee aware event in history from their GSummit SF 2013 talk

You can expect to learn:

  • Insight into the wildly successful GSX achievement program, over 200K awarded during GSX FY13.
  • Overview on the audience listening model applied during GSX FY13, including real time Trending Topics and audience sentiment broadcast injections.
  • Understanding of the transmedia tactics leveraged during GSX FY13, resulting in tens of thousands of supplementary video and downloadable content views.

Also, be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to get the latest videos from GSummit SF 2013 as they’re released. You can also download a copy of this presentation by downloading it here.

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Battle of the Bulbs

Jeff Lopez01 mins

For the past five years, dorms across the University of Chicago have taken part in “The Battle of the Bulbs” to compete on who could get the largest decline in energy usage. From a baseline and year-by-year measurements, the school challenged itself to see who could save the most energy and “do it in the dark” for…

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Click to Participate – Games in Government

Jeff Lopez311 mins

According to Jen Pahlka, founder and Executive Director of Code for America, trust in government is at an all time low except amongst a single demographic: Millennials. This may seem odd, as our generation is typically seen either in a never ending text conversation, wasting time on Facebook, battling friends on Call of Duty, or clicking on cows in FarmVille. But I see these elements as something different. I believe our “wastes of time” have the ability to make our generation into the most participatory generation in the past two-thousand years. As Pahlka puts it, “it’s not that Millennials think the government works now, it’s that they think they can remake the government in their image”. In line with this idea, collaboration and participation through social media is becoming an integral part of the Government 2.0 movement, and I see games as the next step in the process.

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