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How to Fight the Engagement Crisis

Ivan Kuo01 mins

Are you as engaged as a zombie?

Strengthened by its early success, gamification is now becoming a staple in the arsenal of world-class companies everywhere. But it only represents one tool in addressing a larger business challenge that remains unanswered: How do you comprehensively manage user behaviors across all your digital properties to fight the engagement crisis. In this talk, Badgeville’s Chief Strategy Officer Kris Duggan will discuss the engagement challenges faced by 21st century enterprises, and how they can leverage gamification, along with other key engagement mechanics, to fight them in this session from GSummit SF 2013

Be sure to also 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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Badgeville Rumored to Make Big Organizational Changes Since New CEO

Ivan Kuo22 mins
Things have been relatively quiet at Badgeville since new CEO, Ken Comée, stepped up to the plate back in April to lead the company but we recently received a tip that Badgeville is on its way to making some major organizational changes within the sales department. Comée has a strong track record in growing B2B companies, so this organizational shift is likely part of his strategy to move Badgeville forward.
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Top 10 Gamification Presentations at GSummit 2013

Ivan Kuo33 mins

GSummit 2013 was an absolute hit this year and every one of our knowledgable speakers brought some brilliant content to the stage for everyone to learn. Many people have been asking where the slides for each presentation are and I am happy to announce that we finally have all of them uploaded and ready for viewing at gamification.co/gsummit-2013-slides

However, some speakers resonated with our audience more than others, which was very evident through the use of our conference Twitter client, Memecube and generated huge amounts of buzz. See which GSummit speakers got the most attention according to Memecube:

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The State of the Gamification Industry with Kris Duggan

Ivan Kuo22 mins

We return with a bang in 2013 to bring you first episode of Season 2 of the Gamification Revolution, the only live gamification webcast featuring Gabe Zichermann and fellow gamification experts happening every Monday at 1PM ET/10AM PT/1800 GMT. This week’s guest is Kris Duggan, CEO of Badgeville, and speaker at GSummit SF 2013.

Watch this week’s episode to get a broad perspective on the current state of the gamification industry, some of Kris’ insights into marketing gamification for others, and to learn how Kris managed to scale up his gamification platform and hire talent for his company. We also now will have each of our episodes available in MP4 for downloads so you can take it with you on the go.

Keep an eye out for our next episode featuring Asi Burak, Co-President of Games for Change, in our special episode this coming Friday, January 18, at 1 PM ET.

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G-List Interview: Kris Duggan

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As part of our G-List – the who’s-who of the gamification space – today we are happy to have Kris Duggan, founder of Badgeville and panelist for our upcoming Gamification Summit in New York. Follow @gamificationco for updates and submit questions with hashtag #gsummit to get Kris’s insight into gamification and consumer engagement. Keep reading below, and be sure…

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Gamifying Mobile at GamesBeat 2011

jessierogers01 mins

This week in San Francisco, VentureBeat held their co-located GamesBeat and MobileBeat conferences. While topics such as the future of shopping, payments, and social networking on mobile devices dominated the discussion, gamification was given dedicated time in the program, and gamification-related subjects such as loyalty and CRM were widely mentioned.

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Gamification in Canadian Business

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Gabe Zichermann was recently interviewed for an impressive piece on Canadian Business Online by Angelina Chapin. Appropriately titled “The future is a video game“, the piece goes in depth of the definition of gamification and aspects of it – like gaming mechanics, rewards and leveling – the history of loyalty programs and the evolution of…

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