Games in the workplace article (Wall Street Journal)

Here is a Wall Street Journal article on Games and Gamification in the workplace.

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970204294504576615...

One of their examples (that I have heard from other sources as well) is that Deloitte is doing a good job of keeping a virtual game for all internal training / communication complete with badges and scoreboards. They are a competitor for where I currently work, but I still say "Good Job" for going this route.

(Unfortunately since this is a Wall Street Journal article, this particular link will only last for 7 days).

Greg Koeser

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Permalink Reply by chris saeger on October 11, 2011 at 6:07pm

Hi Greg,

Thanks for sharing. Anastasia Salter's session "was on this topic. I tweeted (tm) the article to see if she would weigh in. I think her session expanded the ideas in the article. Here her Prezi http://prezi.com/pjbsn1xhfqgd/leveling-up-in-the-classroom/ Rethinking "Gamification" and Learning in Games

Also, Brandon Carson shared a related article on facebook. http://erinknight.com/post/11285208799/badges-101-webinar-follow-up Badges for Learning

Chris

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Permalink Reply by chris saeger on October 12, 2011 at 6:29pm

Hi Greg,

Here is a contrarian point of view from the Atlantic "Gamification is BS" the author feels the term is just a marketing ploy. His point is more about the term not the intention of using games in general.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/gamification-...

PS for those interested in following the topic the paper.li at this link follows the twitter tag #gamification and gives you stories every 24 hours.

http://paper.li/tag/gamification

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Permalink Reply by chris saeger on October 13, 2011 at 5:39am

Gamification is showing up everywhere for me :-)

A colleague sent me a link to an oscon session on gamification. The presenter's blog is an interesting read.