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This is my final post about the SocialNow conference 2013 . In this post I’d like to share some highlights from four talks. Two were about gamification, one was about money and one about the future of work. Gamification The presentations about gamification by Andrzej Marczewski (of Cap Gemini) and Paulo de Carvalho (of Vodafone) were very interesting. I really enjoyed how these presentations were placed back-to-back. Andrzey gave a general but very good introduction to gamification . He talked about the what, why and how. I really enjoyed how he also talked about cheating and gamification. Paulo talked about his experiences with gamification inside Vodafone. He gave a detailled overview of how they applied gamification to certain business processes and how they deeply thought about the right metrics and incentives for the game to be useful. Costs Ana Neves gave a short presentation about the cost of social tools in the enterprise. Don't focus on the lic...

On March 18 and 19, 2013 the next edition of the Dutch Intranet Conference will be held. We hope to meet you there! But let me give you some idea of the program and main topic of the conference. In the intranet space lots of discussion is about choosing the right technology and selecting and providing the right features for your organization. Also, we talk about intranet governance. What is the right governance model for my organization? How can we keep our intranet interesting and vibrant? Soft skills What I hardly hear is the skills intranet-related people need to do intranet right? What skills does an intranet manager or owner need? For this reason we thought we’d focus the keynotes on this topic: the skills of the intranet manager and more specifically, the knowledge worker. Because that’s what most modern intranets are for: to support knowledge workers in their daily work. Keynotes We invited 3 keynote speakers to give their view on this topic. These are: Euan Semple : The inter...