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"We Believe in Two Big but simple ideas:
* Game-otivation: Making it fun for advocates to do their best work. We think that it should be just as engaging for advocates to help you build your business as it is for them to play their favorite game.
* Social Nurturing: Connecting customer advocates exactly to the best prospects and other advocacy opportunities for them, at all phases of the buying process."

Interesting twist - an extends what I was writing about 6-7 years ago on relationship intelligence. Addressing complex sales and evangelism is very interesting.

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"Using Earn Mojo “as is” (without writing any code), you can set up your site/blog/podcast to reward people with points and badges for the following:

Visiting your site (or using your product) for the first time
Visiting a specific page on your site
Visiting any page on your site on a specific date
Visiting any page on your site on a specific day of the week
Visiting your site (or using the product) on consecutive days
Entering a secret code (can be used in a number of ways, e.g. for signing up for a newsletter, visiting a physical location, watching a video, picking up a business card, finding a sticker in a secret location, etc.
Referring people to your site/product
New: leveling up by earning a certain number of points
Following your Twitter account
Being followed by your Twitter account
Using a specific Twitter Hashtag
Being a member of a specific Twitter List
And coming soon, a whole slew of awards for Facebook. . . .

Using EarnMojo’s API, you can reward points for literally anything, but you’ll need to write some code to do so. Recently a company that does expense reporting software asked us how they could use our API. Here are some examples we thought up for them:

Filling out your expense report early or on time
Filling out N expense reports on time
Saving the company X dollars by staying on (or under) expense budgets
Our API docs are currently private (read: under development) but you can sign your site up right now for free at EarnMojo.com and then just contact me or Mike if you want to use the API and we’re happy to help you get started."

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"The economic slump offers business leaders a chance to more effectively reward talented employees by emphasizing nonfinancial motivators rather than bonuses."

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Free-flowing talk from John Seddon - talking about systems thinking and why many approaches to "managing change" is focused on processes instead of outcomes. Pokes a ton of holes in many areas of "normal business practices."

"John Seddon explains why targets make organisations worse and controlling costs makes costs higher.
This elegant dissection of the organisational madness that pervades our culture was given at the 2009 conference of the Human Givens Institute. Target Obsession Disorder laid bare. "

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It's not (just) because he's another Dan - in my opinion, he does a fantastic amount of research, and distills it into nicely consumable bits for "the rest of us." Great snapshot of his most recent work.

"Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories -- and maybe, a way forward."

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Evolution, Crisis, Too Many Definitions, Sparta, Courage... whew, this article by Moses Ma at Psychology Today packs quite a punch. I've commented on the article there. What's your take?

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