Paper Towel Problem Solved I had a problem. In my classroom bathroom (my room used to be a preschool classroom), I would find tons of paper towel trash all over the floor whenever students washed their hands after a messy project. I tried just remind them to get their paper towel in the trash can and telling them we shouldn't make our awesome custodians' jobs harder and none of it worked. I printed a really simple sign (shown above) that says: Paper Towel in the Trash Can 100 POINTS!!! Paper Towel on the floor... Added some smiley faces and sad faces and some burst shapes behind the points, laminated it, and taped it to the paper towel dispenser.
Personalización 360º para tu tienda online jesperbylund.com Strategic Synergy How to Use Game Mechanics to Reward Your Customers There's a green card. Then there's silver, gold, and platinum. And then there's the Centurion—the black American Express card. Which do you want in your wallet? A handful of luxury brands have for decades used promises of status to encourage customers to spend more through loyalty to their brands. Consider Foursquare, a company built entirely on a game-design model. The new rewards ecosystem is a marketer's dream. "Historically, customer engagement was something big brands did a lot better due to full scale loyalty programs," says Gabe Zichermann, a blogger who authored Game-Based Marketing and who hosts of the Gamification Summit. That's changing. Rewarding Customers Through Gamification: Why Game Mechanics? People are hard-wired to enjoy positive reinforcement. Consider golf: Social interaction aside, why would anyone go to a course and attempt to hit a tiny ball into a far-away hole? "Foursquare was a really great early example of this happening," McGonigal says.
Retail Restaurant Software | Web-based Labor Management | Statistics About us. Objective Logistics is changing the workplace. We are a retail/restaurant-focused software company that provides an artificially-intelligent, web-accessible labor performance management platform (MUSE) scientifically proven to increase sales and guest satisfaction, and save managers countless hours of time. We were founded in January of 2009 with the intent of bringing together experienced retailers, restaurateurs, software engineers, game theorists, behavioral & data scientists, and leading academics in order to fix what’s broken amongst your workforce – and we’re constantly hard at work doing just that. Meet the founders. Philip H. Phil worked in restaurants and retail for 6 years prior to earning a Bachelor of Science in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Matthew Grace – CTO Matt has been a programmer since the age of 13. Meet the team. Eric Poley – VP of Sales Melissa Leffler – VP of Engineering Steve Tremblay – VP of Finance Meet our advisors.
Meaningful Play. Getting »Gamification« Right. Serious Games Initiative Sixty-two Reasons Why "Gamification" Is Played Out | Co.Design "Game mechanics" are the new digital hotness these days. Fueled by business books like Total Engagement, successful apps like Foursquare, and presentations-gone-viral like Jesse Schell's "gamepocalypse" talk, it seems like every damn thing on the Internet is getting some gamelike interaction grafted onto it like a cyborg appendage. And Sebastian Deterding, a designer and researcher at Hamburg University, has had enough. He distilled his thoughts on "gamification and its discontents" into an embeddable 62-slide presentation that's pithy and pretty in equal measure. Deterling attacks the gamification trend from a variety of angles, but his argument boils down to this: points, badges, and leaderboards do not a true game make. Here's his visual indictment of how points -- a key feature of gamified products, services, and marketing schemes -- miss the point: The whole presentation is worth viewing.