Social Media Week is a major international event that takes place twice a year. This past week saw NYC flooded with events celebrating and investigating social media across a wide spectrum. Of course, gamification featured prominently in the discussion. In case you missed it, here are some of the gamification apps, slides and videos from [...]
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Gamification at Social Media Week
February 17th, 2012 
Kevin Shane 
Posted in Events, Gamification 
Tags: bennu, big fuel, bloomberg, dopamine, gabe Zichermann, Gamification, infographics, keynote, Recyclebank, slides, smw, Social Media Week 
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It’s Play Time at the Sydney Festival!
January 27th, 2012 sydneyfestival January on the upside-down part of the world ushers in the annual Sydney Festival – an amazing program of over 100 events and over 1000 artists across dance, theater, music, visual arts, talks, film and more. A bright yellow balloon is the Festival’s watermark, and it’s well-chosen – Sydney Festival is there to be shared, to [...]
Posted in Events, Gamification Tags: Android, app, arts, festival, free, Game, Gamification, Gaming, iPhone, Sydney Festival, treasure hunt 3 Comments »
The Future of Web Design is Engagement
November 10th, 2011 Justin Schier The two-day boutique Future of Web Design conference concluded yesterday in New York’s Midtown, with speakers focusing heavily on innovation in engagement science. The conference is hosted annually by UK based Carsonified, a design company with a refreshing set of core values.
GSummitX Meetups: Tokyo & NYC in November
November 7th, 2011 GabeZ GSummit San Francisco and New York City were huge hits, selling out and bringing together folks from around the world and from every corner of the gamification and engagement industries. Clearly however, not everyone can come to GSummit – and for many of those who attended, the two intense days of lectures, panels and workshops [...]
Bunchball Brings Gamification to Jive Social Business
October 5th, 2011 Jeff Lopez 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 [...]
Posted in Cool Companies, Events, Gamification Tags: bunchball, Gamification, jive, jiveworld2011 No Comments »GSummit Slides Released
September 22nd, 2011 admin A week ago, today, we kicked off our second Gamification Summit in New York. The results have been awesome, and for those of you who were unable to attend, we are releasing the slides from the conference and also be sure to check out the live blog for a recap off all of the events. [...]
Posted in Events, GSummit Tags: Aaron Forth, Gamification, gamification summit, gsummit, Kevin Richardson, Lithium, Michael Wu, mint, slidedeck 2 Comments »Three New Gamified Apps to Demo at GSummit
September 7th, 2011 GabeZ We are excited to announce that three breakthrough gamification projects will be revealed at the Gamification Summit (September 15th-16th). Social Chocolate (showing Jane McGonigal’s new game, SuperBetter), AXA Equitable and the Mozilla Foundation will each share their innovative new apps and provide early beta access where possible. Read on to find out more, or Register [...]
Posted in Events, Gamification, GSummit Tags: AXA Equitable, Fora.tv, gamification summit, gsummit, Jane McGonigal, Mozilla, Open Badges, Pass It On, Social Chocolate, SuperBetter No Comments »How do you Make an Intelligent City? The 24 Hour City Project
August 29th, 2011 Jeff Lopez Through technology we have created new ways to collect, show, and share data. Beyond that dry term, “data”, is a vast range of possibility, and gamification is demonstrating how we can show and share information in the hopes of becoming more fit, more healthy, and more knowledgable. These are largely personal goals made social through [...]
A Gamification MBA?: “For the Win” at Wharton
August 8th, 2011 Jeff Lopez Beginning this fall, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania will host the first ever MBA-course on gamification as it applies to business. The class will be taught by Kevin Werbach, a professor of Legal Studies at the Wharton School, and Dan Hunter, a professor at New York Law School. They are supporting the course with [...]
Posted in Events, Gamification Tags: business, Dan Hunter, For the Win, Gamification, Kevin Werbach, Wharton 6 Comments »
Urbanology: Guggenheim and Civic Engagement through Games
August 5th, 2011 Jeff Lopez This Wednesday, the BMW Guggenheim Lab opened to the public. Located in New York City, just north of Houston Street and the Sarah D. Roosevelt Park, the aim of the project is serve as a platform for positive interactions in city planning and to examine the spaces that we all share. The traveling lab includes [...]
Posted in Events, Gamification Tags: BMW Guggenheim Lab, civic engagement, Jeff Lopez, New York City, Urbanology 1 Comment »
