Category Archives for "Gamification"
28/09/2020
- in Gamification by Pete Jenkins
Gamification+ CEO Pete Jenkins confirmed as DIT Export Champion for a 2nd year
Export Champions are a group of handpicked exporters, who have worked with the DIT to take their products or services to customers worldwide and have been successful in doing so. Download the Southern England Export Champions Brochure 2020 here: https://gamificationplus.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2020SERExportChampionBrochure.pdf Check out Pete talking about his role as Export Champion in this episode of the […]
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24/09/2020
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Press Start – Interview with author Albert van der Meer
In their book “Press Start – Using gamification to power-up your marketing” Daniel Griffin and Albert van der Meer tell us how, in an increasingly commoditized world, marketers are finding new ways to influence or motivate us to be better engaged with their products, services, and brands. This is marketing gamification: the practice of taking […]
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08/09/2020
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Games and Gamification in Market Research – Interview with author Betty Adamou
In her book “Games and Gamification in Market Research: Increasing Consumer Engagement in Research” Betty Adamou tells us how games and gamification are revolutionizing the market research industry, offering opportunities to reinvigorate the notoriously sluggish engagement levels seen in traditional surveying methods. It is aimed at showing you how to design Research Games and Gamified […]
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16/07/2020
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How gaming is being used to tackle the world’s biggest health conditions
7 minute read Advances in research and technology have meant that gaming is increasingly becoming a valid method of tackling health conditions. Charities, universities, scientists and game makers are using their combined knowledge to further understand conditions, and ultimately support those affected by them. In this article, Deborah Garfen, Product Designer from the British Heart […]
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06/07/2020
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Infinite Gamification – Toby Beresford interviewed by Pete Jenkins
The newly published book Infinite Gamification by Toby Beresford tells us how to create sustainable scoring programs to influence behaviour at work and at play. It is aimed at leaders working on small or larger programs and is a practical guide to the methods and pitfalls involved. In this interview hosted at the Gamifiers Meetup […]
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25/04/2020
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How games and gamification can help you create healthy habits for physical activity at home
Guest post by Violeta Ivanova, BSc Physiotherapy at SAMK, Finland Have you ever tried to build or change a lifestyle habit? It’s incredibly hard, takes a long time and dedication. This is not always taken into consideration when healthcare professionals recommend exercise to patients. Movement is healthy, but it doesn’t have to be limited to […]
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24/03/2020
- in Gamification by Kira Downer
Gamification: What are the Business Benefits?
Gamification can be a tricky concept to introduce to a manager. There is misinformation abound when considering the short and long term effects of gamification on businesses. Gamification has existed for such little time that there is also the misconception that ‘good’ gamification cannot be accurately described. That’s not true. ’Good’ Gamification?We’re going to clarify […]
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27/02/2020
- in Gamification by George Cohen
New Team Member – George Cohen
When I chose Business Management as my university course, I had very little idea of what I hoped to do after Uni other than the nowadays generic answer ‘something to do with business’. Nothing changed until my second year, when I chose Gamification as an elective module. Within the first two workshops, I knew this […]
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26/02/2020
- in Gamification by Kira Downer
Gamification for Student Employability in Higher Education
This is the first in a series of blogs about our activity and association with applying gamification at the University of Brighton (UoB).On Thursday 13th February over 180 people signed up to attend the UoB Connect: Be More launch event at the AMEX stadium in Brighton. UoB Connect is a project led by staff from […]
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15/01/2020
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Open workshop on applied gamification Feb 10-11
Would you like to increase sales, improve staff retention, onboard new staff more quickly and increase employee engagement across the board? Gamification is used to encourage behaviour change within businesses. We are running a two-day gamification workshop delivered by Pete Jenkins in Brighton. By attending this you’ll gain an understanding of game mechanics, aesthetics, emotions and […]
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