Laglagan (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
"As director of games research and development at thinktank Institute for the Future, Jane McGonigal is bridging entertainment, research and business" http://www.businessweek.com/print/innovate/content/nov2008/id20081110_453173.htm
Studiopjj (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
Jane McGonigal, director of games research and development at the Institute for the Future is the genius behind the game, called Superstruct . Thanks Jane. Useful links: www.superstructgame.org www.iftf.org www.argn.com www.worldwithoutoil.org Superstruct is fun + immersive.
BusinessWeek Online (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Jane McGonigal's Brave New WorldsAs director of games research and development at thinktank Institute for the Future, Jane McGonigal is bridging entertainment, research and business SPECIAL REPORTMajor corporations, including Procter & Gamble (), Electronic Arts (), and National Semiconductor (), have given some of their employees an unusual assignment: play a free online game. Admittedly, it's not...
Business Week (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Profile: Jane McGonigalAs director of games research and development at thinktank Institute for the Future, Jane McGonigal is bridging entertainment, research and business By SPECIAL REPORT Story Tools Major corporations, including Procter & Gamble (), Electronic Arts (), and National Semiconductor (), have given some of their employees an unusual assignment: play a free...
bookofjoe (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
1. Better instructions 2. Better feedback 3. Better community Ms. McGonigal, a top game designer and futurist, spoke last month at the 2008 IdeaFestival in Louisville, Kentucky. Mickey Meece interviewed her for an October 23, 2008 New York Times story...
Klintron's Brain (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... out of Superstruct is the community that it created. To me, that’s awesome enough to still give Jane McGonigal, Jamais Cascio and the rest of the folks at IFTF credit for a job well done. Superstruct Review: Unplayable, Unwinnable, Still Awesome // Skilluminati Research .
Passion for Innovation (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
After I wrote ' Gaming meets Business Software ' I found an excellent presentation by Jane McGonigal on ' The Rise of the Happiness Brands '. In short it says that people just want to be happy and that happiness is the new capital. We are all in the happiness business and need happiness engineers. About 20 percent in the presentation she mentions that Games work better, better instructions,...
Idealog magazine & blogs (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
‘Transportation’ might be a strange word to describe a web conference, but for Webstock it’s a good fit. Plus on their way to Webstock: Jane McGonigal and Matt Jones
The Praized Blog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Mike Liebhold, Senior Researcher at Institute For The Future (and also the place where Jane McGonigal works), gave us his perspective on the future of local media. Big statements: Mobile is key. Phones are now computers. In 5 years, everyone will be able to afford one of those new smart phones Devices will have increasing geo-location accuracy. It’s the [...]
IdeaFestival (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Game designer and futurist Jane McGonigal, who spoke meaningfully about games as "happiness engines" and the need to create, rather than predict the future during her presentation at the IdeaFestival in September, lists some of her favorite ideas for saving...
Toronto Sun - News (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
But a recent entry by Jane McGonigal, director of game research and development at the Palo Alto, Calif.-based Institute for the Future, says the solution to curing society's ills could lie in playing more video games. Specifically, multiplayer videogames that reward collaboration and team-based problem solving among players, like the fantasy game World Of Warcraft, the sci-fi shooter...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
JoAnna Schull from SYPartners sent me a link to some work by Jane McGonigal. She pointed out (and I agree) that the following was particularly...
IdeaFestival (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
... (Resnick is very big on creating toys that invite tinkering .) Along with game designer Jane McGonigal, who spoke at the IdeaFestival recently, he works out of the Institute for the Future . The kind of iterative learning Soojung-Kim Pang references pulls knowledge from our limbs. We know more than we can tell . Wayne
Talent imitates, genius steals (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: 2008 summit)I saw Jane McGonigal speak this morning at the Boards Summit. She was completely awesome. She calls herself a happiness hacker [this may be even better than being a ninja].She did...
Talent imitates, genius steals (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
I'm speaking at the Boards Summit on Friday. Jane McGonigal is the keynote speaker and she is awesome. I'm on a panel discussing how to 'Spread the Good Word': how do you get your 'big idea' out to consumers in...
