Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
I now see waiting time a lot differently. Those times at the dentists office or the train station? They're no longer annoying, or where I try to figure out what have to do with myself. They're productive times.
Why? Because I have a Smartphone. I have a computer that just happens to make phone calls. I can spend that time reading, checking email, updating people, and more. I think of my wait time far differently now than I did a few weeks ago
Awhile ago a variety of celebrities declared themselves dead, not Tweeting and such until enough donations to fight AIDS came in. Despite this being for a good cause, it was a failure at the time as noted. The site now appears to have donations up to par, but it sort of looks like . . . well judge for yourself (http://buylife.org/).
So why didn't this death-on-social-media have an immediate influx of donations? I think part of it was the odd, kind of self-centered method of raising funds and the tastelessness of it. The other part was that the celebrities stopped being celebrities.
I hear a lot of talk lately about "gamifictation" – adding gamelike elements to non-gaming software and services. It may be achievements, titles, even controls – and the goal of course is to get people interested and using the software and services.
Let me state frankly that this is a great idea. I'm bang alongside it, and I wanted to explore just why I think it works, and why we need to pay attention to it: