Ethical Gamification for a Sustainable Planet
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Ethical Gamification for a Sustainable Planet

ByRicky Wright

If you struggled with this then check out my introduction to gamification. Most Fortune 500 companies now use gamification in attempts to engage audiences. However, experts claim eighty percent of businesses will get it wrong because they fail to consider their audience’s motivations and instead act out of coercive self-interest (cited in Burke, 2014 p….

Rebel/Explorer Archetype Sustainable Travel Project
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Rebel/Explorer Archetype Sustainable Travel Project

ByRicky Wright

If I have been a little quiet online lately, that’s because I have been working on Green Travel List. This site focuses on sustainable travel options from resorts to eco-lodges and takes in a range of options like treehouses and glamping options. COVID has changed the world in many ways, and travel is not an…

Top Bundaberg Websites for 2021
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Top Bundaberg Websites for 2021

ByRicky Wright

While numbers never tell the full story, it is sometimes useful and kind of fascinating to have an objective measure of how much comparative engagement websites get. I thought it would make for an interesting exercise to track what websites produced in Bundaberg are ‘popular’. This list is definitely not exhaustive, and please do use…

Petri Dish – A sci-fi short story
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Petri Dish – A sci-fi short story

ByRicky Wright

See the difference between different versions of ChatGPT and the original story. Title: Petri Dish – A Sci-Fi Short Story Author: Ricky Wright Improved by ChatGPT 4 Date: May 27, 2019 In a vibrant, cozy bedroom, young Delphia, a primary school student, carefully sprinkles small fragments of bio-material into a petri dish. She observes the…

Exploring Gamification
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Exploring Gamification

ByRicky Wright

My recent experiences with gamification.   1) Connecting with the Community I started collaborating and gamifying the experience early on the #alm201 hashtag by introducing myself via video and then continued to contribute and respond to other students’ efforts. I responded to the layered quests Adam (our unit coordinator) set, and by liking, commenting, awarding…

Do Popularity Metrics Matter on Social Media?
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Do Popularity Metrics Matter on Social Media?

ByRicky Wright

Could you remove your popularity metrics? Today I discovered a browser extension which hides those like, and retweet numbers on Facebook and Twitter. Part of the purpose of the extension is to find out what happens when we judge others on Twitter and Facebook, not by the numbers but what we encounter through experiences we have with people. The…