Every week until GSummit SF 2013, we’ll be unlocking some special content from last year to give you a preview on what to expect this April 16 – 18.
Byron Reeves of Stanford University discusses his research on how people react to games and his fascination towards games emerging in the enterprise:
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The Gamification Revolution is the only live gamification webcast featuring Gabe Zichermann and fellow gamification experts every Thursday at 1 PM EST/10 AM PST/1800 GMT. Join us and have all of your gamification questions answered by these experts.
This past week’s guest is the Chief Scientist at Salesforce, JP Rangaswami! Robert has been working as an education researcher with the Gates Foundation and shares his knowledge on how games are affecting the American Education landscape. You can expect to learn about:
Be sure to catch this week’s episode featuring lifehacker Jon Guerrera and learn to gamify your life and possibly land a job at Google.
You can now catch the Gamification Revolution every Thursday at 1PM EST/10 AM PST/1800 GMT.
Each week on the Gamification Revolution web show, Gabe Zichermann answers all your burning gamification questions LIVE every Monday at 1pm ET/10am PT/1800 GMT at http://gamification.co/live. This week’s show features Keith Smith, CEO and Co-Founder of gamification platform, BigDoor.
CAPTCHA is the bane of all user experiences on the internet. They’re somewhat effective at stopping spam-bots but they’re seemingly merciless at preventing humans from being able to read its cryptic text, even if they often do create hilarious unintended meanings. Nevertheless, a solution for this ancient security system is being developed by a new…
Mastering the mechanics and principles for effective implementation of gamification is no easy feat for any aspiring gamification experts. Yet, mastering the art of articulating and pitching gamification to one’s own organization can be daunting task for many. How does one successfully pitch gamification to their colleagues and upper management? Although the task ahead may…
Leaderboarded, a web application for community managers to “motivate their tribe” by creating an online leaderboard, has today announced a major employee gamification initiative at Capgemini — marking a major social collaboration between one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology, and outsourcing services and the social data startup seeking to rewrite the rules…
According to WANTED Analytics, hiring demand for gamification skills are up 293% from 2011. While the trend for hiring demand is on an upward path, there has been a slight 1% decrease in demand since July 2012. WANTED Analytics also analyzed job postings followed by Wire Telecommunications Carriers and All Other Telecommunications and concluded the…
Gigya has announced the launch of their new NEXUS Partner Ecosystem, which will allow their social infrastructure to connect to a large host of marketing services and applications. All the data connected through Gigya’s social infrastructure and gamification services can now be made available on a permission-based system used to fuel automated marketing campaigns. The NEXUS Partner Ecosystem…
FreshBiz is a game that appears like any other. There are dice, cards, colored spaces, little pieces to move, money, and a square game board. Sounds like Monopoly right? In my experience with the game, I immediately thought of a strategy that would earn me the most money, get me to the end the fastest, and…
Today in our Gamification Company Database we have three unique gamified applications to share with you today: TravelSmart Tracker – is a gamified experience focused around creating your own personalized travel infographic to show the health impacts of your traveling. Changers – is a solar company that sells a solar panel bundled with a device to monitor…
Verizon Wireless has joined the gamification ranks! Their new venture, Verizon Insider, enjoyed a 30% increase in login rates due to gamification efforts.Gamification strategy firm Gigya oversaw the design and implementation of the gamified elements for Verizon Insider. By adding leaderboards, badges, and social media integration among other features, Verizon has engaged its customers on a closer level….
It isn’t penetration testing—when companies employ “white hat” hacks to identify technical vulnerabilities. A cyber war game is based around a real-life business scenario (ex. Hackers attempting to access customer databases). As cyber security is everyone’s responsibility, information security employees to marketers and legal advisers work together to respond to the real-life scenario. These war games can help expose…
The following is an Op-Ed by Adeyemi Ajao, Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Identified.com My dad is 83 years old and worked his whole life in finance. When I told him I was creating a company around “adding gamification to your professional life”, he honestly thought I was joking. “Games” and “professional” are not the first…
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…
We’ve all read something along these lines before: “Company X announces new internal social network with gamification features”. With big names such as Samsung and Salesforce using this technology, there is clearly value to be had in having these gamified social networks. Inclusion of badges, points, and leaderboards all lead to increased user engagement but what happens…
