As written for Technorati Everyone wants a piece of the mobile pie, but display ads and banners aren’t working; e-mail contact with consumers is archaic and attention spans are short. One of the few industries getting it right in the mobile space is gaming: an industry often overlooked or marginalized by the business world. According to a report compiled by … Continue reading »
As written for Business2Community Last week’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference profiled a lot of new and exciting technologies. Most impressive to me, however, are new ideas that meld real-life challenges with technological solutions. Munzee is a company doing just that. Beyond the Virtual, into Reality Taking gaming beyond the realm of the virtual, and making use of real-world … Continue reading »
Lots of interesting speakers and cutting-edge technologies were introduced at last week’s Gamification Summit in San Francisco. Summit attendees ran the gamut, with representatives from Google, SAP, eBay, OMGPOP, AT&T, Salesforce.com, and United Airlines all participating. The conference theme was resoundingly universal; big players rallying around the importance of loyalty in the digital marketing ecosystem, … Continue reading »
Article first published as Project Management through Incentivization: Interview with RedCritter CEO, Mike Beaty on Technorati. Project Management Software Imagine you’re a business who’s product delivery requires a whole lot of timely coordination between different functional groups. “Hey, that sounds like me,” you might be saying. It sounds like a lot of industry whose challenge is the … Continue reading »
Article first published as The Bull Market for Bands: Interview with TastemasterX CEO, Marc Ruxin on Technorati. TastemakerX is social gamification-element platform that allows users to build “stock” portfolios of personal musical tastes and trade, share, and comment on them. Okay, so that’s a lot of words, so allow me to lend along with them a more current … Continue reading »
Article written for, and published as When Gaming Meets the Real World – Interview with Antonio Tomarchio, CEO of Beintoo on Technorati. Gamification Meets the Real World The title of this article was the title of a workshop at last week’s ad:tech conference in San Francisco. The focus of the program was new strategies being used in the … Continue reading »
Article first written for, and published as Social Loyalty Disruption – Interview with Tuhin Roy, Co-founder of Fanzy on Technorati. Hyper-engaged Gamification for the Masses Fanzy is an exciting San Francisco startup launching the world’s first social loyalty network. I spoke with company co-founder, Tuhin Roy at ad:tech San Francisco to get more insight into the company’s … Continue reading »
Article first written for, and published as Lower Barriers and Greater Engagement: Interview with BulbStorm CEO, Bart Steiner on Technorati. Social Media Marketing “You’ve collected your Facebook likes, spent some dough on Facebook ads, and maybe given away an iPad or two. That was good for 2010. Now what?” That’s the tagline on BulbStorm’s website, and the … Continue reading »
As published on SocialMediaToday.com Gamification Strategy I’ve written a lot before about gamification, admittedly, one of my favorite topics. A lot of people think the strategy is all about games for consumers, but the application goes deeper than that. Developed correctly, a gamification platform deployed internally across an organization can deliver exceptional performance results. At the … Continue reading »
Article first written for, and published as Hitachi Data Systems Shares 5 Steps to B2B Social Media Success on Technorati. Social Media for Enterprise Business When most of us think of Hitachi Data Systems, we don’t necessarily think “social media.” I mean, at first pass, I wouldn’t associate the image of a towering black Hitachi server as … Continue reading »