Top 4 gamification apps

NetworkWorld

Companies should not attempt to jump into gamification all at once. Here are four specific applications that are excellent places to start your gamification program...

...3. Crowdsourcing

Appirio is a 500-person Silicon Valley cloud solutions vendor that was trying to compete against much larger consulting firms, like Accenture and Deloitte. Two years ago the company launched CloudSpokes, an online community that now counts around 45,000 developers as members - developers who compete to solve programming challenges.

To make it work, the company involved the developers themselves in making sure that there were no loopholes in the contests and in judging the results, says Narinder Singh, the company's chief strategy officer...