{"id":439,"date":"2014-07-15T09:52:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T08:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teamkineticuk.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/15\/further-evidence-that-gamification-works\/"},"modified":"2022-06-13T12:12:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T11:12:34","slug":"further-evidence-that-gamification-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamkinetic.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/07\/further-evidence-that-gamification-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Further Evidence That Gamification Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teamkinetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/gamification.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-441\" style=\"border:10px solid #ffffff;margin-top:10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/teamkinetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/gamification.png?w=300\" alt=\"Gamification\" width=\"245\" height=\"179\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>As our current customers are aware, there is a number of functions within VolunteerKinetic which utilise gamification to incentivise volunteers to log their hours.\u00a0 The main function for this is through digital badges which are clearly visible within the volunteers dashboard when they login.\u00a0 The badges change as the volunteer records more hours within the system.<\/p>\n<p>Recent research has shown that there is evidence that this approach can have a real impact on users actions:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.inc.com\/graham-winfrey\/how-businesses-use-gamification.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As our current customers are aware, there is a number of functions within VolunteerKinetic which utilise gamification to incentivise volunteers to log their hours.\u00a0 The main function for this is through digital badges which are clearly visible within the volunteers dashboard when they login.\u00a0 The badges change as the volunteer records more hours within the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,96,161,178],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-views","tag-teamkinetic","tag-volunteer-management","tag-volunteer-management-software","tag-volunteer-management-system"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - 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