#if i was better with programming and understanding board games i would create an online version

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I was not paid to write this post but I was sent a ChillFactor Squeeze Cup Slushy Maker for the purpose of review. Lovely and at £12.99 I don’t think it’s a bad price at all. You can use it with juice, flavoured milk, even fizzy drinks so whatever your taste and you can have an iced slushy drink on a hot summers day! Florence is very impressed and apart from the fact that the cup we were sent wasn’t the colour she would have chosen she is absolutely thrilled! She soon forgot that the cup was blue when she saw how well it works though! This is something Florence can do herself and have lots of fun with the making of and also it produces very enjoyable and satisfying results! Makes a great slushy drink! The explosion will then in turn activate a nearby P. This will trigger the Bob-omb right next to the Muncher, causing it to explode. As soon as you look in the opposite direction, the Boo activates, becoming intangible and allowing the Muncher to fall down. Half way is perfect! Chil, fill and squeeze! Basically, theres a Muncher sitting on top of a 'eyes closed' Boo, which makes it solid. I’m not joking, I don’t know how it’s done (well it’s something to do with the iced squishy bits inside the cup – I mean the science) but somehow it works and in a minute you have a proper slushy drink! It has a coffee shop style lid then you slip the spoon in the top so that you can spoon the slush out! I was quite literally amazed that it worked so well and so was my Mum! I thought it would work but I suspected it wouldn’t be as good as the adverts, I was wrong! The only thing I would say is don’t over fill it as it’s too difficult to make it slush up.

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Seems she hasn’t forgotten either!īut… The ChillFactor Squeeze Cup Slushy Maker actually does work and unlike the contraption we gave all our energy to turning the handle on when I was a child, all you have to do with this one is squeeze it! A chill in the freezer for the silicon cup and then all you do is fill it with a drink, any drink and squeeze! The instructions suggest 6 hours is the chilling time needed but I think perhaps a little longer produces a better result! Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations. The machine price goes up depending on the size of the badge you want with the cheapest being this 25mm aluminium machine. It comes with a circle cutter, cutting board and 250 badge sets. Recently she has become very excited about one particular product which promises to make a slushy iced drink in minutes! I can completely understand her fascination because I as a child was also very excited to be given a product which promised the same! Unfortunately, the toy I had didn’t really work, my Mum took it back to the shop and that was the end of slushy drink making for me – I was very upset and it’s never been forgotten! When I told my Mum we were going to review the cup Florence has been so interested in she said ‘it won’t work, these things never do’. Created by Ebadges, this badge making kit comes with everything you need to get started. I am never in any doubt as to what she would be pleased to be given as a gift!

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I knew exactly which toys and gizmos I was interested in and would then spend hours pouring over the toy catalogues afterwards marking pages and leaving my parents in the full knowledge of what I wanted for Christmas! Florence is exactly the same and is always declaring she’d like such and such then finding it in the catalogues and showing me again.

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I hit the breaking point as a parent a few years ago. It was the week of my extended family’s annual gathering in August, and we were struggling with assorted crises. My parents were aging; my wife and I were straining under the chaos of young children; my sister was bracing to prepare her preteens for bullying, sex and cyberstalking. Sure enough, one night all the tensions boiled over. At dinner, I noticed my nephew texting under the table. I knew I shouldn’t say anything, but I couldn’t help myself and asked him to stop. Ka-boom! My sister snapped at me to not discipline her child. My dad pointed out that my girls were the ones balancing spoons on their noses. My mom said none of the grandchildren had manners. Within minutes, everyone had fled to separate corners. Later, my dad called me to his bedside. There was a palpable sense of fear I couldn’t remember hearing before. “Our family’s falling apart,” he said. “No it’s not,” I said instinctively. “It’s stronger than ever.” But lying in bed afterward, I began to wonder: Was he right? What is the secret sauce that holds a family together? What are the ingredients that make some families effective, resilient, happy? It turns out to be an astonishingly good time to ask that question. The last few years have seen stunning breakthroughs in knowledge about how to make families, along with other groups, work more effectively. Myth-shattering research has reshaped our understanding of dinnertime, discipline and difficult conversations. Trendsetting programs from Silicon Valley and the military have introduced techniques for making teams function better. The only problem: most of that knowledge remains ghettoized in these subcultures, hidden from the parents who need it most. I spent the last few years trying to uncover that information, meeting families, scholars and experts ranging from peace negotiators to online game designers to Warren Buffett’s bankers. After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest of all: develop a strong family narrative. I first heard this idea from Marshall Duke, a colorful psychologist at Emory University. In the mid-1990s, Dr. Duke was asked to help explore myth and ritual in American families.“There was a lot of research at the time into the dissipation of the family,” he told me at his home in suburban Atlanta. “But we were more interested in what families could do to counteract those forces.” Around that time, Dr. Duke’s wife, Sara, a psychologist who works with children with learning disabilities, noticed something about her students.“The ones who know a lot about their families tend to do better when they face challenges,” she said. Her husband was intrigued, and along with a colleague, Robyn Fivush, set out to test her hypothesis. They developed a measure called the “Do You Know?” scale that asked children to answer 20 questions. Examples included: Do you know where your grandparents grew up? Do you know where your mom and dad went to high school? Do you know where your parents met? Do you know an illness or something really terrible that happened in your family? Do you know the story of your birth? Dr. Duke and Dr. Fivush asked those questions of four dozen families in the summer of 2001, and taped several of their dinner table conversations. They then compared the children’s results to a battery of psychological tests the children had taken, and reached an overwhelming conclusion. The more children knew about their family’s history, the stronger their sense of control over their lives, the higher their self-esteem and the more successfully they believed their families functioned. The “Do You Know?” scale turned out to be the best single predictor of children’s emotional health and happiness. “We were blown away,” Dr. Duke said. And then something unexpected happened. Two months later was Sept. 11. As citizens, Dr. Duke and Dr. Fivush were horrified like everyone else, but as psychologists, they knew they had been given a rare opportunity: though the families they studied had not been directly affected by the events, all the children had experienced the same national trauma at the same time. The researchers went back and reassessed the children.“Once again,” Dr. Duke said, “the ones who knew more about their families proved to be more resilient, meaning they could moderate the effects of stress.” Why does knowing where your grandmother went to school help a child overcome something as minor as a skinned knee or as major as a terrorist attack? “The answers have to do with a child’s sense of being part of a larger family,” Dr. Duke said. Psychologists have found that every family has a unifying narrative, he explained, and those narratives take one of three shapes. First, the ascending family narrative: “Son, when we came to this country, we had nothing. Our family worked. We opened a store. Your grandfather went to high school. Your father went to college. And now you. ...” Second is the descending narrative: “Sweetheart, we used to have it all. Then we lost everything.” “The most healthful narrative,” Dr. Duke continued, “is the third one. It’s called the oscillating family narrative: ‘Dear, let me tell you, we’ve had ups and downs in our family. We built a family business. Your grandfather was a pillar of the community. Your mother was on the board of the hospital. But we also had setbacks. You had an uncle who was once arrested. We had a house burn down. Your father lost a job. But no matter what happened, we always stuck together as a family.’ ” Dr. Duke said that children who have the most self-confidence have what he and Dr. Fivush call a strong “intergenerational self.” They know they belong to something bigger than themselves. Leaders in other fields have found similar results. Many groups use what sociologists call sense-making, the building of a narrative that explains what the group is about. Jim Collins, a management expert and author of “Good to Great,” told me that successful human enterprises of any kind, from companies to countries, go out of their way to capture their core identity. In Mr. Collins’s terms, they “preserve core, while stimulating progress.” The same applies to families, he said. Mr. Collins recommended that families create a mission statement similar to the ones companies and other organizations use to identify their core values. The military has also found that teaching recruits about the history of their service increases their camaraderie and ability to bond more closely with their unit.Cmdr. David G. Smith is the chairman of the department of leadership, ethics and law at the Naval Academy and an expert in unit cohesion, the Pentagon’s term for group morale. Until recently, the military taught unit cohesion by “dehumanizing” individuals, Commander Smith said. Think of the bullying drill sergeants in “Full Metal Jacket” or “An Officer and a Gentleman.” But these days the military spends more time building up identity through communal activities. At the Naval Academy, Commander Smith advises graduating seniors to take incoming freshmen (or plebes) on history-building exercises, like going to the cemetery to pay tribute to the first naval aviator or visiting the original B-1 aircraft on display on campus. Dr. Duke recommended that parents pursue similar activities with their children. Any number of occasions work to convey this sense of history: holidays, vacations, big family get-togethers, even a ride to the mall. The hokier the family’s tradition, he said, the more likely it is to be passed down. He mentioned his family’s custom of hiding frozen turkeys and canned pumpkin in the bushes during Thanksgiving so grandchildren would have to “hunt for their supper,” like the Pilgrims. “These traditions become part of your family,” Dr. Duke said. Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn’t mean simply “talking through problems,” as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves. When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence. The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family’s positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.

- Bruce Feiler. Emphases added.

#family #historiography #genealogy #community #long post #parenting #storytelling

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Introducing the Teacher-Gamer Handbook

The Teacher-Gamer Handbook is a resource for educators to lead Role Playing Games (such as Dungeons and Dragons) in the classroom, in homeschool and online. It contains a full semester of robust lesson plans and the pedagogical infrastructure to last years that teach 36 life-skills to players with pre-created adventure suggestions, narrative arcs and prompts.

The main premise is: you can’t learn something unless you notice it. The purpose of the RPG Skillset is to generate multitudes of continuous opportunities to notice things within at least 36 major domains of self-development. The possibilities are endless.

My name is Zach.

Here is a brief history of how the Teacher-Gamer Handbook came to be:

1982 played Dungeons and Dragons for the first time - my character died in the first 10 minutes, it was so fascinating and unlike anything I had ever experienced... I was hooked! I have been playing RPGs for thousands of hours and almost 4 decades. Some would call me an O.G. (Original Gamer).

1990’s adventuring in life, school, work, music production, becoming Canadian and starting a family steered me in new directions.

2002+ raising two boys with my wife Sophie, I was teaching and studying by day, hangin' with the family and playing RPGs when I could on weekends.

2006 enrolled in an MA program in Education to better understand the “how” of teaching and learning.

2010 finished my Masters in Education focused on authentic learning and life-skills curriculum development.

2012 realized that role-playing games (RPGs) in Schools was an untapped resource. I began working on the Teacher-Gamer as an extension of my Distinct Self well-being program.

2014-2016 brought RPGs in Schools curriculum into the classroom at Green School Bali

2015-present Wild Mind Training workshops blending RPGs in Schools with mindfulness ramps into wilderness trips with Wildlife Conservation Society.

2020 Teacher-Gamer Revolution! - happening offscreen on tabletops everywhere! Let’s get radical about balancing EdTech and AI coming into schools by bringing our teacher’s hobbies into life-skills classes that enrich youth with socio-emotional and literary skills while maintaining the distinctly human teacher-student relationships that cannot be replaced by computers.

What We Need & What You Get

I started this campaign for three main reasons:

It is time to put the Teacher-Gamer Revolution on the timeline, now, globally. It is so important to take what you have inside you and put it into the civic sphere. I urge all educators to make the world a better place by combining their passions with their pedagogical skills and make them available to the public.

Self-publishing the Teacher-Gamer Handbook (TGHB) will launch this new step of my career with all the support of my colleagues, friends and anyone who likes the idea that robust off-screen game-system-learning (engaging face-to-face life-skills development) is a viable initiative to balance the influx of technology into schools.

The TGHB is my calling card, a beacon, an organized methodology that I can put into the hands of people I meet at conferences, conventions and school boards wherever I go.  

I took a calculated risk and have already borrowed the money to:

finish the book

have it typeset in the style of a role-playing game handbook

make videos to explain how teaching RPGs in schools works

build a website with a private interactive forum.

I also plan to use the momentum and connections I make with so many people around the world to take the curriculum to the next level.

My ultimate goal is to hit at least $60,000 so that I can spread the methodology online and hit the road when the world opens up again to safe conferences and in-person education.

Here's the Teacher-Gamer Revolution plan for the funds raised on IndieGoGo:

Hard Copy prints of the book for everyone!

Hit our stretch goals and produce additional resources for Teacher-Gamers to accompany the Handbook.

Finish the next three handbooks full of additional lesson plans, classroom activities and teaching strategies.

Newsletters with practical activities

Instructional videos

Teacher-gamer website features celebrating educator success around the world  

Weekly Webinars for online outreach and support

Teacher training workshop deployment to implement new full-scale RPGs in the classroom programs.

Head to Conferences and speaking events to grow the community and gain traction.

Continued customization of RPGs in Schools curriculum in community centers, school boards, correctional facilities and homeschools far and wide.

Finish the next three handbooks full of additional lesson plans, classroom activities and teaching strategies.

Benefits for the Educators

help schools transition into more life-skills programs that prepare youth for adulthood

build progressive opportunities for face-to-face off-screen courses in schools

maintain positive attitudes about the future of schools

work to make life-skills more prominent in schools for the subject teacher who is getting pushed out by tech

Strengthen relationships with students through gameplay

The last thing a teacher wants to feel like is “obsolete”. There is some hustle each teacher must do to remain fresh, viable and relevant in their community, but if teachers are trying to battle incoming tech or are being asked to do more tech type roles, they will have to find ways to shift the consciousness of the institutes they work in or be moved around or pushed out.

This is a call to teachers to take their passions- or at least an opportunity to pick up this methodology to teach games- and deploy life-skills into their learning environment.  

The Impact

By contributing to the Teacher-Gamer Handbook, you are doing more than just buying a book or helping it get printed, you help:

establish the printing, distribution and sale of the book

the off-screen Teacher-Gamer Revolution gain traction and take flight

bring viability to the TEACHER-GAMER profession

subject teachers to collaborate with their peers to build robust game systems into learning opportunities

wilderness survival teachers establish classroom simulations of safety and role-playing through authentic learning narratives

bring a whole new piece of curriculum to holistic education

make in-roads for RPGs in Schools to become a discipline unto itself that helps youth process the multiverse of systems, franchises, worlds and cultures that are coming at them at high-speed through the internet and media.

The Story

The Teacher-Gamer Handbook has been over 8 years in the making!

The RPGs in Schools program was originally developed as an extension to a Personal and Social Development Local Programme course cycle in Canadian public school – a well-being curriculum program of life-skills electives at The English Montreal School Board in Quebec. Since then, the RPGs in Schools program has been adapted into the Wild Mind Training resiliency program for youth, 10 years old and older in schools and camps in Indonesia and the UK where I have been working over the last 6 years.

Starting in 2014, Green School Bali was an early adopter of the RPGs in Schools Program where I ran Introduction to Dungeons and Dragons as an English literacy course (creative writing) in high school and as an English literacy course (communication thematic) in middle school.

Every child surveyed in Green School reported that they liked the RPGs class and over half of them considered it their favorite class!

As I went along, I started realizing that all the life skills (21 basic and 15 advanced) that I was teaching could be dialed in to meet various curriculum goals and that if I put learners on a narrative cycle such as the Hero’s Journey, they would begin to recognize so many more thematics, symbols, motifs and literary forms as they relate to so many of the stories, books, films, TV series, mangas and other sagas that they follow.

Re-branded as Wild Mind Training, over the last 4 years. I have been experimenting with more mindfulness, wilderness conservation and improvisational theatre elements. As a home school aggregate on the weekdays and a weekend workshop for day school children, I have ironed out the kinks of three different levels of Introduction to Life-Skills through 3rd edition Dungeons and Dragons courses.

As with any pedagogy delivery system, the context and content (ie. role-playing game being used) can be adjusted into the area of study or subject. What matters most is that the learning system is authentically motivating and delivers opportunity after opportunity to acquire literacy, socio-emotional and life skills.  

Risks & Challenges

Getting the book printed is only the first step. I’m taking a huge financial risk of my own even if the project does not get funded. In order for it to succeed, I have to get out there and hit the road to show people how the methodology really improves the learning experience for the students and teachers.

I’ve got to hit trade shows, book speaking events, and still create workshops to help teacher-gamers really kickstart this program.

Let’s keep it real: this is an alternative learning method that requires adaptation. There may be backlash as conventional school systems are entrenched in “standardization”. I have to keep pushing this body of work as a complement to curricula by expanding the resources for teachers.

Gamification has brought games into education, but have also made the teachers gatekeepers to the computer. The negative result is that kids will be on their best behavior just to be allowed to get on screen. We need to bring value back to the teacher-student relationship, also making the teacher-gamer an exciting part of education - off-screen!

The Teacher-Gamer Revolution is on!

And I am ready. The time is NOW. If not us, then who?

As a network of early adopters it is YOU that will help me carry this forward and YOU that by belief in this project, will help extend the reach of the Teacher-Gamer Revolution.

We have some goals to hit, and time is of the essence. There has been so much learned by going for it and I am so excited to turn this guerilla-style launch of getting the first Handbook off the ground and into teachers hands everywhere.

We will try to get questions answered as soon as possible, just know we are also trying to get the book to print BEFORE the end of the campaign and have a lot going on.

That being said, we are GOING TO PRINT and get your copies to you as SOON as possible. Depending on your location this could take some time as we are a GLOBAL movement with community around the world, but can only afford to print in ONE location at this time.

Print and delivery is scheduled for June 15th and getting copies in your hands by July 1st. But again, your patience is much appreciated and we will update you every step of the way!

Thanks to you for all your patience and getting involved.

Indiegogo campaign ends: 24 April 2020

Website: [Teacher Gamer] [facebook] [twitter] [instagram]

#RPG #indiegogo #Teacher Gamer Handbook #real world #education

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6 reasons why Digital Marketers should NOT ignore Gamification

For the uninitiated, gamification is most commonly defined as “…an informal umbrella term for the use of video game elements in non-gaming systems to improve user experience (UX) and user engagement…”. (1)

Brian Burke, Research Vice President at Gartner, in a podcast defines gamification further as “The use of game mechanics and experience design to digitally engage and motivate people to achieve their goals…it’s the use of game mechanics… and uses things like points and badges and leader boards… It is used in a digital engagement model” (2)

Let’s take a look at the 6 reasons why marketers must consider gamification in their digital strategy. (It's a long read but I promise it will be fun!)

Reason 1: Let’s accept it – gamification is not ‘just a fad’

The last decade has seen interest in gamification rise substantially. Growth in digital technologies has further propelled this interest across sectors like Healthcare, Real-estate, Education, and other sectors. Today, mobile technology is using game mechanics combined with UX design to enhance user engagement, aid employee learning, help students with problem-solving, and even help sales personnel reach their targets.

Reason 2: Gamification is everywhere, literally!

The earliest, less refined, version of gamification in marketing was recorded in 1896 (3) when retailers rewarded loyal customers with stamps received from marketers. By 2020, one can comfortably say that gamification in marketing has come a long way.

“It (Gamification) can be applied on many products, services, or any stage of the customer journey and it’s easily adjusted to any budget” (4)

Today, Gamification is seamlessly incorporated in our favorite digital platforms like Google Pay, Fitbit, and even Linkedin. It is common to see a mobile app use badges, points, or virtual currency to drive user engagement. While there are popular applications that have gamification at their core like Duolingo and Nike Run Club, there are apps like Zomato which have incorporated gamification into their product to keep app users coming back for more.

In 2019, Zomato launched Zomato Premier League during the IPL season. Users could predict a winner of the IPL cricket match of the day and gain 30% cashback if they predicted the winner correctly. Zomato released a scorecard of the activity that showed 224 cities and 14 Million predictions achieved during the IPL season. (5)

(On a separate note, Google decided to ruin the game and sent a notice to Zomato citing Play store policy violation – Zomato had to take off this feature in September 2020) (6)

Reason 3: Your digital audience wants to have fun

“Many brands don’t need brand awareness anymore, they already have it. So they’re looking at what’s next, they want to engage the audience, the influencers.” (7)

Digital marketers need not limit themselves to using gamification only in an app – digital engagement can be successfully created wherever the audience is including social media! Micro-gamification moments have been popular on social media platforms for some time now. One example of the micro-gamification moment is Stories Ordering by Burger King.

Burger King Spain used Instagram stories and had some fun with gamification. With “Stories Ordering” followers could pick ingredients and customize their Whoppers by simply clicking on the Instagram Poll Feature. This generated a unique coupon that participants could use to redeem their Whopper for free. A simple creative idea with zero media investment led to 270000 brand interactions.

Similarly, Star Movies launched Play @ 7 (8) to gamify the TV watching experience. Viewers were required to watch the movies played on the channel daily and play 7 games by tweeting the correct answers to the games. Star Movies created a leader-board on Twitter in real-time where participants could track their progress daily and weekly.

Reason 4: Personalise to Gamify and Gamify to personalize

“While the job of gamification is easing the daily tasks in different fields, the users’ interests and likes must be considered to create intrinsic incentives and a moral environment for them.” (9)

For a truly effective retention strategy, a brand must enhance the product experience for the user. For this ethically collecting relevant data along the user journey to personalize content and keep users engaged becomes important. Duolingo emails a weekly report to its users reminding them of their progress in comparison to the previous week. Similarly, Starbucks sends rewards points as a birthday treat to its users.

As the collected data gets richer in quality, marketers can then create loyalty programs, feedback mechanisms, gamified content, and much more, to personalize the user’s experience further.

Reason 5: Gamified marketing survived COVID-19

Locked up at home due to COVID-19, people were increasingly active online, consuming a variety of content, and playing games when not working. Between March 2020 and April 2020, comScore noted a 62% increase in the time spent on playing games online in India. Another report states that the US and UK saw a ‘40% surge in the time spent on online games’.

During this time, Burberry launched its summer collection through a gamified campaign. The luxury brand created a multiplayer game “that lets players dress up their characters in the brand's outfits before grabbing a surfboard and challenging friends to a race around a track”. The game rewards participants with daily prizes and AR-based digital rewards. (10)

ABC Entertainment decided to have fun promoting its classic TV game show “Supermarket Sweep”. To announce the return of the show, the broadcaster launched a Twitter game “Supermoji Sweep”. The audience on Twitter was required to “reply to its @SuperSweepABC account with combinations of nine emoji for grocery items including cheese, bread, steak, turkey and cherries”. Every emoji had a secret dollar value attached to it and the audience was required to guess the combination of items that would cost exactly $20. And the reward for the correct guess? A Special video message from comedian Leslie Jones, who is also the host of the show.

Reason 6: Gamification is about to get better

The overall Gamification market globally is expected to be worth $76298.9 Mn by 2030 (11) and for marketers, the opportunities are endless. Game mechanics are combined with AR/VR in education, tourism, healthcare, and entertainment industries.

In 2019, Ally Bank used AR and Gamification to create an online learning experience for consumers. “The augmented reality game brings Monopoly to life in six USA cities… Ally aims to improve consumers’ financial literacy through gamification while giving them the chance to increase their savings and win prizes."

PetSmart used Snapchat’s AR feature to create a “gamified quiz based around educational reptile facts”. Using this feature users could use the filter to turn themselves into a reptile, answer questions related to reptiles, and win a 40% discount coupon that can be redeemed at a PetSmart store. As a result, PetSmart “has seen a 50% increase in reptile sales, as well as a boost in general pet sales as owners stocked up on food and supplies in preparation for lockdown..”

Digital marketers can leverage these technologies to present immersive and gamified experiences to consumers and expand the scope of digital marketing. Similarly, brands can work towards gathering relevant user data and utilize it to create a better user experience and consumer engagement through personalized in-app gamified experiences.

Parting Thoughts

From engagement to retention, gamification can support most of the marketing objectives. This is a great approach ONLY if the marketer is clear about what objective the brand is trying to achieve when adopting the approach. To elevate a user’s experience through gamification, marketers must weave storytelling or personalization.

But remember, creating a gamified experience is not easy. Experts have researched why gamification fails and these reasons range from lack of understanding of the target audience to not being able to create a compelling story. Brian Burke mentions that gamification fails when it is used to manipulate the user’s experience to meet the organization’s goal, instead of the goal of the customer (2). As a result, marketers must create an experience that helps the consumer achieve their objectives. And this means going beyond mere reward points.

I will leave you with two popular frameworks Elemental Game Tetrad Model by Schell and Octalysis Framework by Yu-kai Chou. Both these should help you start off with planning and designing an outstanding gamification experience for your audiences/customers/users!

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Thank you for reading this article. I would love to hear your views on gamification and how digital marketers can leverage game mechanics to improve user engagement.

If you found this article interesting or if you have any feedback for me, do share the same in the comments below!

All references and cited articles can be viewed here.

#digital marketing #Gamification #zomato #burgerking #petsmart #personalization #KD writes

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Mentoring As Well As Mentoring

Executive Coach Joins Mentoring Plan For Women Leaders

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Want To Create As Well As Grow On Your Own And Your Organization?

Inspiration Via Compassionate Management.

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Learn what our marathon running clients have though of our training service. A professional life instructor Longwick can assist you if you have psychological wellness concerns. You need to consider someone who has actually remained in a comparable scenario as well as is able to connect to you as well as your character. Mental health and wellness concerns can impact your connections, your profession, as well as your self-confidence. These facilities totally sustain as well as back among the FIBA's primary calculated pillars for, Females in Basketball, which intends to advertise chances for ladies in all areas of basketball including the duty of female basketball instructors as leaders. " We recognise the requirement for the growth of even more top notch lady trains in our mentoring game plan. The programme will certainly be based upon 6 advanced coaching workshops that will be practical, reflective as well as underpinned by professional research study.

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We will subsidise the very first 5 hours of training you obtain from one of our Associate Coaches. We are for that reason able to supply you these coaching sessions at the substantially decreased price of ₤ 30 per hour. Every one of our trainers have substantial experience in mentoring and also have a range of specialist credentials. The Mentoring programme is aimed at females who would love to accessibility mentoring assistance to help them produce a development in the work environment and also those aiming to return to work after a career break. Jane helps women rediscover delight, link and also function in their lives. She is a leading specialist on mercy, a train for Lead The Adjustment, a former management consultant as well as also has a profession mentoring company.

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While the number of female footballers has grown hugely because time, it has not necessarily been matched by females relocating into coaching, yet Signeul can see that altering. As somebody that has been in charge of ladies's football teams for 40 years and is still going strong, few people are better put to speak about the progression of females in coaching functions than Anna Signeul. The programme aims to assist women to navigate profession challenges and maximise their occupation capacity. It builds individuals' feeling of neighborhood as well as their ability to trainer each other. It also opens up communication channels between these groups as well as the organisation which can allow favorable systemic modifications. Join us for a night with Kate Oldridge as well as Lucy Widdowson - Leadership coaches specialising in creating females leaders. They will certainly use an interactive strategy to check out charlatan disorder as well as look into the typical barriers facing females in the modern office and also offer services to support breaking through these barriers.

What are the 3 main coaching styles?

There are three generally accepted styles of coaching in sports: autocratic, democratic and holistic. Each style has its benefits and drawbacks, and it's important to understand all three.

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It appropriates for any females who want to advance their careers, are undergoing change, desire even more self-belief, confidence or assertiveness or simply time out to reassess and re-evaluate their values, objectives, function. The courses themselves allow for development of skills but additionally a meeting of minds. " Having access to the most current mentoring techniques as well as application, access to analysis is actually interesting," claims Signeul, that is also a UEFA technological observer and also technical teacher. " The opportunity to network with other instructors is a truly important aspect of the diplomas. That is where I have my sounding boards." The Finland head trainer has actually been preparing her side for the big UEFA Women's EURO qualifying game with Scotland-- a team she led for 12 years and understands very well.

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, bespoke freelancer as well as company training and also mentoring for female company owner or particular programs and webinars to improve strength. Recent readily available data shows that although 85% of all primary teachers were women, simply 73% of main headteachers were women. In addition 63% of all additional teachers were female whilst simply 38% of secondary headteachers were females. This information shows that women are under-represented in management positions, specifically at secondary degree. The DfE's National Coaching Pledge welcomes all leaders to make a voluntary pledge to instructor aspiring women leaders. Females Leading in Education and learning is aimed at supporting ladies into management functions, via growth chances, sharing of good technique and access to a range of valuable sources.

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On the off chance that you're getting this, you're probably pondering whether Hostinger is a web encouraging association that can be trusted – and whether there's a stunt about their strong advancement assessing.

In this extraordinary review, we will truly research Hostinger and answer the going with essential requests:

Around the completion of this study you can find a select advancement code which licenses you to save 15% from your Hostinger demand, on top of all as far as possible and excellent offers you would as of now have the option to find on their site. Appreciate!

Fortuitously, when Hostinger were picking their picture name, they no doubt didn't foresee the a wide scope of ways it might be mistakenly spelled.. so on the off chance that you're here a direct result of filtering for hostenger or hosinger or even hostiger – basically understand that surely, that is a comparable association we're talking about here, so you're in the right spot :)

The Story of Hostinger

To give you an idea of precisely how gigantic Hostinger is, here are a couple of figures: the association starting at now has practically 30 million customers not simply in the US, UK, India and Indonesia, yet what's more in 170+ various countries (this is essentially every single country of the world!).

In addition, there are no signs of moving down – according to their data, Hostinger is up 'til now stretching out at a pace of 1 client at normal spans.

Right now Hostinger has destinations high-performant gear arranged in a couple of datacenters around the world: specifically, in the United States, Brazil, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Singapore, and Indonesia. An extra datacenter focused on Eastern Europe is foreseen the not all that far off future.

In any case, as you may expect, Hostinger hasn't by and large been the general goliath it is today. It started in 2004 as unassuming "Encouraging Media" in the little anyway rapidly creating country of Lithuania, arranged in the north-eastern bit of the European Union.

The originators of Hostinger didn't intend to follow the gathering and make basically one all the more encouraging organization – they set up the new association as for an innovative idea:

People would favor not to pay for our displaying – basically the encouraging: direct, strong, and as unassuming as could sensibly be normal.

After various years, this standard in spite of everything remains at the focal point of what Hostinger centers around, to be explicit extraordinary organizations at a close to zero expense.

Nevertheless, how does Hostinger achieve such reality? – you may honestly solicit – toward the end from the day, how might it make sense of how to minimize its expenses while keeping the quality high? I will explain soon – most importantly, we should look at the thing itself:

Which Hosting Plan Is Right for You?

There are a couple of kinds of encouraging offered on the authority Hostinger site, each with various assessing plans. This makes it a test to pick just one, considering that there are moreover extraordinary additional organizations and features included to no end cash based dependent upon the course of action.

We should center in and endeavor to understand the fundamental portions of encouraging – this will enable us to constrain our choice and reach the last final product.

We'll assess all of the three kinds of Hostinger's encouraging organizations, overall, examine this little table. It summarizes the most critical differentiations between encouraging sorts and gives the most generally perceived use cases:

Performance Sufficient for little and medium websites High execution for greater destinations and online projects Medium to high dependent upon the plan

Space for growth Rigid – need to climb to another encouraging plan Flexible – can incorporate more resources "on the fly" Very versatile – granular authority over resources

Cost level Low Medium Flexible

I accept that even from this table, the qualification between the three encouraging sorts that are offered by Hostinger is extremely clear, anyway we will moreover give hardly logically low down explanations underneath.

Before we go into nuances, nonetheless, we need to appreciate one key thought: the server. Essentially, it's a specific PC that stores locales and demonstrates them to your online visitors:

Any encouraging is a grouping of servers, mind blowing PCs which are moved up to stay online each moment of consistently/365 and show your website to any person who types in its area into their program.

Thusly, servers are essentially the standard section of any encouraging organization, and they can be used in different habits depending upon the client's necessities and money related arrangement. This is the spot the three encouraging sorts come in:

Common encouraging is a crucial structure for the people who are essentially starting or need to test their online endeavors with least employments. It's assigned "shared" in light of the fact that each server holds hundreds or even an enormous number of locales from various clients.

This gathers a lone server's benefits are used at the same time by various areas – fine for destinations which have moderate traffic, anyway can impact execution for greater locales.

On the positive side, shared encouraging is unfathomably unassuming and easy to use. This makes it ideal for private individuals and little undertakings which are just starting their way into the online world.

Business encouraging is a further evolved sort, sensible for greater locales which are required to have medium to high step by step traffic (a large number of customers for consistently and anything is possible from that point).

Hostinger's business encouraging uses what's called cloud advancements – your handling resources are not connected to a specific physical server, anyway are spread over different machines, which guarantees better adequacy and flexibility.

This also infers your encouraging resources are detached from each and every other site for this circumstance, which prompts by and large better, appeared differently in relation to shared encouraging.

All of these favorable circumstances incorporate some significant detriments, clearly – business encouraging is in a general sense logically exorbitant, with the most affordable course of action ("Startup" at $15.90 consistently) costing twice as much as the most expensive shared game plan ("Business" at $7.95 consistently). Unexpectedly, the last naming is very perplexing from my perspective – yet at this point we understand what's in store :)

VPS encouraging is the most versatile and the least straightforward encouraging sort offered by Hostinger. It signifies "Virtual Private Server", considering the way that for this circumstance a lone physical server runs a couple of individual conditions which don't get with each other using any and all means. It takes after having your own server, on the other hand, really it's an alleged "virtual" machine.

Such course of action thinks about most prominent flexibility – you can do almost anything you need with your virtual server, since you have official level authority over the entire structure.

Which appears fun, until you comprehend that you won't increase a beneficial force board with a VPS encouraging arrangement. In a manner of speaking, it's needy upon you to set up all parts of your virtual server.

This is the explanation such an encouraging is at the same time supportive for specialists who know absolutely what they're accomplishing (for instance programming architects and website specialists) and near futile for some other individual.

Given the specific features of each encouraging kind, I can make a reasonable proposal that you should in all probability pick the common sort. Why? In such a case, that you were addressing a tremendous business or a web progression association, you would realize all that I referenced in the past fragments.

That case aside, we ought to expect you need the basic encouraging – and see which of the three Hostinger Shared plans is the most reasonable choice.

On Hostinger's shared encouraging page you can see three offers: the Single course of action, assessed at $0.88 consistently, the Premium game plan, esteemed at $3.49 consistently, and the Business plan, evaluated at $7.95 consistently. I trust understand that these are remarkable progressions:

You can get these expenses if you demand a multi year pack, tinier periods cost hardly more (in case you ask me, a year group is commonly all that might be expected to grasp if you genuinely need a website, and test your online errand).

Such expenses are significant for the term of the group you demand, after that your encouraging will get deferred at a conventional rate.

Simply taking everything into account – these are both fundamental practices among encouraging gives, so nothing dubious about Hostinger in such way.

Every one of the three shared plans are equipped with everything that is significant for a basic start, including updated programming and hardware, so we will basically focus on the qualifications:

The Single game plan has too relatively few features and figuring power that is adequate only for the most diminutive of destinations, while the Business plan includes not a lot of focal points diverged from the Premium game plan while being twice as expensive.

Toward the day's end, the Premium game plan is the most balanced similar to features, over all it is the most economical course of action with a free space included.

What's more, it is the most affordable course of action to offer customized fortifications – and you will feel the handiness of this part the primary go through something happens to your site :)

To close, for the vast majority and little prescription

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