Gamification is the newest corporate buzzword. Organizations slap points, badges, and leaderboards on customer or employee engagement programs, many times only to see the initiatives fail. It’s important to examine the root causes of these failures, in order to learn how you can make your gamification program succeed.
It’s not a secret, and it’s not new – kids hate school. Of course as adults it’s our job to tout the importance of education and how it can build your future, but we can all remember how much we hated school when we were kids. Students often find school, tedious and boring and the…
In this recent post on the Cisco blog, Dannette Veale uses common examples to help illustrate what gamification really means – like Foursquare, Quest to Learn charter school, Evoke and Wii Fit. She also quotes Gabe Zichermann and his now famous SAPS model for rewards systems. The article also mentions GSummit and how it sold…
