It’s been now almost one month since the Digital Age Summit 2017 took place in Istanbul. And I want to give you a recap of what happened, my impressions and about the inspiring people I met. I already shared some stories, an interview with Altug a Turkish Gamification Expert, as well as an interview with Hurriyet […]
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At the Digital Age Summit, I met really inspiring people, who have an impact on business, however as well on our social life and our culture we are living in. I will give you not just any business background, you can read that on your own and google it, what I will do, is write […]
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Hurriyet is one of the biggest Newspapers in Turkey and the biggest Turkish Newspaper in Europe. I had the pleasure to gave an interview about what I am doing and about Gamification. The original was published online and as Newspaper in the special HR division of Hurriyet. Here I will give you the English version […]
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When I met Altug I was in Istanbul at the Digital Age Summit. He is a Gamification Expert and writes the first Turkish book about Gamification. He writes as well a blog and interviews a lot of people, about Gamification and I was one of them. Today I want to share the interview with you. The […]
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I am excited, I will hold a keynote and workshop about Gamification at the Digital Age Summit in Istanbul. As I am working as a consultant, it makes me more than happy to as spread the word and thinking about my beloved topic – the human-focused approach, which one of the best tools to use […]
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We play Buzzword Bingo – Design Thinking, Agile (and Agile in IT), Product Thinking, Gamification – and think by throwing these words into a room full of people, our problems will solve immediately. And this is exactly what upsets me. By using these words inflationary, they are losing their power, they lose their identity, and we […]
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I know it’s been a while since we met last time. And it is nice meeting you again! There were a lot of things going on in the meanwhile. And one of it was the DMEXCO, where I not only did presentation notes, I as well held a gamification worklab. After two days at the […]
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Today a wonderful motivational video crossed my way and reminded me why I’m doing what I do. It’s because I truly believe in it. I believe in design and games! I trust in the power of change, the power of people and that in our hearts we all know what we want to do. How […]
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As I am now sitting here, trying to find the right start for this post. I wanted to start with why we are who we are – however this post should not be about the I in us, it should deal with us and others. As we are humans, we always interact. We interact with our […]
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A good game always starts with an epic calling. And why should it be different in my case. One day I went into the library at our university and there it was smiling into my face. Yellow and brand new – Jane McGonigals “Reality is broken” crossed my way while my industrial design studies. It was […]
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