Zamzee

Boosting Children’s Physical Wellbeing with Zamzee

Health care experts warn that child obesity rates are rising to alarming levels. With the increase in obesity-related medical conditions, such as diabetes, it’s no wonder that parents and health professionals alike are looking for ways to keep children healthy. A good diet is one part of the equation. But an equally important part of child health is physical activity. Gamification startup HopeLab developed a technological way to keep kids on the move while tracking this activity at the same time. The company’s gamification software is called Zamzee.

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Gabe’s Gamification Revolution with Richard Tate of HopeLab & Zamzee

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://www.gamification.co/gamification-revolution/. This week’s show features Richard Tate, VP of Communications & Marketing at HopeLab. Here’s a rundown on some of the topics they spoke about: Designing wellness game interventions that don’t talk down to young…

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Getting Three Fs in Gamification

Over the last 3 years, I’ve had the privilege of analyzing, deconstructing and helping design gamification for many companies and non-profits. Since the publication of my first book, Game-Based Marketing (now available in audiobook format), there has been an ever-increasing clamor for process, methodology and systems that can be used to make gamification more repeatable…

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Weekly Recap: gamification around the web

In gamification this week, we have interesting stories on game mechanics influencing everything; uttering the “G word” at Casual Connect; a new gamified application to help with college applications; and the importance of onboarding in today’s rapidly changing digital envrionment. Also check out today’s Google Doodle in honor of Alexander Calder. I don’t think every…

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