Adotas Starting Simple With Gamification The term “gamification” can be one of the most misunderstood marketing and engagement strategies employed today. Many marketers think gamification literally means creating a game to engage with customers or employees. And, yes, it can mean that.
EconoSTATS Europe on the Brink (Again) Once again there is talk of a major financial crisis in Europe. Many observers expect that Europe will muddle through and push the problem further down the road, as it has for the past two years. But this time really could be different.
Health care lessons from Weld Bill Weld and I didn’t agree on much, but he did something in his first term as Massachusetts governor that should be required reading for anybody involved in the current debate over how to control health costs in the Commonwealth.
When You Lose Your Sport, What Happens To Your Self? I saw this flyer recently on my gym’s bulletin board. The loneliness and loss of identity it describes are surely shared by a great many people who have to leave sports, famous or not, but what comes to mind is the suicide of Junior Seau, the 43-year-old former NFL player who shot himself in the chest […]
NBC Bay Area Homeland Security Expert Discusses Foiled Bomb Plot NBC Bay Area’s Brent Cannon speaks with Stephen Flynn, Co-founder of the Research Institute for Homeland Security at Northeastern University, about the foiled airplane bomb plot.
Khaleej Times The goodness of gossip Yes, you read right. Recent research does actually offer a positive spin to this age-old practice — one that goes beyond the rumours and tall tales.
Minyanville.com Less Evolved Companies: Five Firms on the Other Side of the Gay Rights Movement President Obama made history yesterday by becoming the first-ever sitting president to declare his support for same-sex marriage.
American Ethnologist Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation This article explores the links between social media and public space within the #Occupy Everywhere movements. Whereas listservs and websites helped give rise to a widespread logic of networking within the movements for global justice of the 1990s–2000s, I argue that social media have contributed to an emerging logic of aggregation in the more recent […]
Massachusetts fares well in factory jobs study Factory jobs in Massachusetts, once confined to a museum display, are not only alive and well, but quite profitable for the workers holding them.
New Scientist US conservatives gain upper hand in Twitter politics Following his successful use of Twitter in the 2008 US presidential election campaign, Barack Obama is seen by many political pundits as the king of social media. But according to a new analysis of the Twitterverse, US conservatives have fought back and may now possess an online network that is better organised to spread their […]
A Shirt That Can Tell You If You’re Slacking Off Instead of Getting Buff Constantinos Mavroidis and Mark Sivak supervise Northeastern students and assign them with one “very broad” task every fall semester. This past year, it was to create a medical device that could be used to monitor users’ activities at home, that could also be interfaceable with a smartphone. Little did they know, their students would create […]
CBS Boston New College Grads Face Slightly Brighter Job Search The good news for emerging job graduates is hiring is on the upswing. But a brighter employment picture isn’t lessening the anxiety of newly minted grads, who face the real-world lesson that good job opportunities still remain elusive.