Gamification. Marketers love it, game developers love to hate it. I hardly know what to make of it. At its most basic definition, it is the application of game-play mechanics in nongame settings. It is increasingly used by marketers to sell more products and encourage desired consumer behaviors.

Greetings! I'm Scott Nicholson, author of Everyone Plays at the Library: Creating Great Gaming Experiences for All Ages , and an associate professor at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. During the 2011-2012 academic year, I was on sabbatical as a visiting professor at MIT, where I worked with the GAMBIT game lab.

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