Tag Archives: privacy

Episode 60 – Bubbly Bubblers in Gamified Buildings

By | |
Comments Off on Episode 60 – Bubbly Bubblers in Gamified Buildings

Phaedra, Michael and Michael were delighted to be accompanied by Ross Smith, Director of Test in the Skype division of Microsoft for this show, centered around games for employee engagement. Ross described the recent work that he and his team have done with giving personality to buildings and using the building itself as the ‘game master’, to orchestrate and facilitate employee engagement. Games for health One of the intriguing examples (also discussed in Episode 58, but without the benefit of Ross’s first hand experience) uses a water cooler with personality as the mechanism for gamifying health.  While drinking eight glasses … Continue reading →

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:21 — 15.8MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Podcast Index | Youtube Music | RSS | More

Episode 39 – Dating Google

By | |
Comments Off on Episode 39 – Dating Google

While Michael M. is hiding out in central Europe, Phaedra and Michael R. have some fun speculating how you can use Google glasses while dating your customers. Well not dating your customers, but during courtship. Wait, not really courtship, but while in sales. Can Google glasses really help your sales force and your customers connect better? We think so, and so we talk about it. Do you think that Google glasses are in your future? What business games do you foresee bring to your workplace? Will it cause a new era of fake sincerity? Or will it cause an era … Continue reading →

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:23 — 10.4MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Podcast Index | Youtube Music | RSS | More

Episode 25 – Social Reciprocity

By | |
Comments Off on Episode 25 – Social Reciprocity

As the the day are getting shorter, and our day jobs are getting busier, the Michael’s have a lot of fun talking about the latest tech news and how it ties back to playing games at work. Michael R even gushes a bit about the possibilities of Microsoft’s Surface RT, and how well they presented it to the market on Thursday. While there was no Oprah moment at the announcement, there were multiple people who walked away with one. Links: Windows RT Announcement Apple’s iPad Kickstand Data Visualization Widgets Windows 8 is NOT Metro Bean Traders Awesome Coffee Visualization LinkedIn … Continue reading →

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:56 — 42.7MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Podcast Index | Youtube Music | RSS | More