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Man injured in four-car crash A 28-year-old man from Mtarfa was grievously injured in a four-car crash in Mdina Road at 5.20am. The police said the man was driving a Fiat Tempra from Rabat towards Qormi when he collided with a Honda Accord that was being driven by a 30-year-old man from Attard in the direction of Birkirkara. Shortly after, a Vauxhall Astra that was being driven by a 44-year-old man from Rabat in the direction of Qormi collided into the two vehicles. Moments later, another car, that was also going into the direction of Qormi also crashed into the three vehicles. The fourth car kept ongoing and did not stop at the site of the accident. TWO MEN SLIGHTLY INJURED IN PEMBROKE ACCIDENT Another two men were slightly injured in a collision between two H read more Man, woman injured in fight A man and a woman were injured in a fight at Triq it-Tigrija in Marsa at 2am. The police said the man, a 47-year-old from Marsa, was stabbed and was suffering from grievous injuries. The woman, a 44-year-old from Hamrun, was hit by a hard object. It is not known whether others were also involved in the fight. read more Valletta must be kept alive - FAA The re-location of the Valletta open market is another piecemeal decision which adds to Valletta’s intrinsic problem – the lack of holistic urban management of our capital, Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar said. It said in a statement that the choice of Ordnance Street was far from ideal, but nor was the Merchants’ Street site, right behind the Magisterial Palace, with hawkers hanging their wares directly on the Palace walls. “Is a uniform design for the stalls planned, plus inclusion of local arts and crafts which would upgrade the market and widen its appeal? The hawkers’ representative’s statement that some of the stalls will have to be located between the new Parliament building and the old Opera House, indicates the wor read more Lone sharks A shark embryo wriggles in its egg as Donnha Barbara points at its tiny gills, noting it might be some six more months before it hatches. The nursehound egg lies alone in a fish tank next to other controlled aquariums housing small-spotted catshark eggs, another endangered species. Ms Barbara is following an extended diploma course in fish management at the Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology and has a work placement at the Malta Aquaculture Research Centre in Fort San Luċjan, limits of Marsaxlokk. She has been entrusted with a project in collaboration with Sharklab Malta to hatch about 20 nursehound (scyliorhinus stellaris) and small-spotted catshark (scyliorhinus canicula) eggs with the aim of reintroducing them in the read more Relatives ‘should get free breast cancer screening’ Women whose first-degree relatives, like their mother or sister, had breast cancer should be given free screening for the disease, according to a lobby group. “These women are at risk. They are already living in fear that they might have breast cancer, so they should be entitled to free screening,” said Esther Sant, from the Action for Breast Cancer Foundation. The hereditary aspect of breast cancer was in the international spotlight when, a few days ago, Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie announced she had both breasts removed as a precaution. She opted for the double mastectomy after finding out that she had a gene mutation that leads to a sharply higher risk of breast cancer. The 37-year-old, known for her beauty and feminini read more |
Plymouth Herald commented Recipe for a relaxing tripTo begin with, for those of you with a passionate dislike of sea views you are going to absolutely hate it.read more Winter Moods inducted into hard rock cafeLocal band Winter Moods has been selected by Hard Rock Cafe to join hundreds of international artists to be featured in their cafe.read more Kate Middleton, William can evade Carole Dearest with a rich Malta floatThe British are getting tired and fed-up with the ever-maneuvering Middletons, especially with Mamma Carole Middleton, who is now trumpeted by none other than "Tattler Magazine" as being the new "power behind the throne," due mostly to her insistence upon controlling William and Kate, and now getting her talons into the new royal baby.read more ejtun celebrates G anafest 2013Zejtun today celebrated the traditional folk festival, known as Ghanafest. Ghanafest is a manifestation of traditional Mediterrenean folk music.read more Costa Favolosa bringing 145,000 passengers to MaltaThe Italian luxury cruise liner Costa Favolosa shall be calling at the Port of Valletta every Friday until November bringing to Malta more than 145,000 passengers.read more |
Enemalta could lose its monopoly on electricity supply because of the interconnector with Sicily, former Enemalta manager John Pace has warned. Writing in The Times today, he says that the interconnector with Sicily could persuade the European Commission to lift a derogation granted in 2006 which granted Enemalta a monopoly on electricity supply. In all other EU countries, consumers can choose from whom to buy their electricity. “The justification for this derogation was that Malta is a small isolated system and less than five per cent of the annual electricity consumption is obtained through interconnections with other systems,” Mr Pace observed. Full story in The Times.
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Get Your Business Game On with “The Gamification Revolution”
Circuses were meant to draw the audience’s eye to various clowns, acrobats, trapeze performers and artists meant to bedazzle and delight. With more people spending time online, companies can feel as if they have to run Barnum and Bailey rather than a company. One entertainment concept that has spread through the last few years is gamification – connecting to customers through implementing design concepts from games and loyalty programs based on behavioral economics. The concept is the study of a new book The Gamification Revolution: How Leaders Leverage Game Mechanics to Crush The Competition. The authors, Gamification.co CEO, Gabe Zicherman, and Joselin Linder, wrote the book believing that long term customer value awaits those business that make engagement rewarding for the customer. I discovered the book via NetGallery. Although not meant to explain check ins and game app code planning, the book is an opening round in understanding how to engage a company and customers with gamification techniques that have arisen with the age of mobile computing and app development The process of implementing these games and strategies into business is called gamification, and with it you can build experiences that will provide built in meaning and trigger the motivation of employees and customers. The cost for not developing interest can be severe. Zicherman and Linder outline an example from Fox Meyer, once the fourth largest drug distributor in the United States: “Without employee and customer engagement, the best laid strategies and tactics are doomed to fail…. [Fox Meyer] began a project with the software management firm SAP and the business management firm Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) for the purpose of transitioning to a new enterprise resource plan (ERP), which would serve as the back-end system for the automation of its warehouses. Despite an aggressive 18 month rollout program, the company did one major thing wrong. It forgot to engage its employee base…. By 1998 the $5 billion company went bankrupt.” The value derived can be significant as well. Companies are using gamification to change their businesses and to drive behavioral economics. In fact, the best businesses figured this out even before the dawn of jQuery. A mention of McDonald’s success with its Monopoly reveals the author’s penchant for context from history: “According to the company, the game itself was responsible for 5.5 percent same hyphen store revenue lift in a single month for the 4th quarter of 2011. This equates to approximately 350 million dollars in incremental revenue over 60 days of the promotion.” Jump to today’s gaming environment, where even console games are being challenged (my Atari 2600 is weeping as I write this!); ”What’s more, mobile games, especially social and casual games (like Angry Birds, cut the rope, and Tiny Wings), are rapidly taking over where consoles and MMOG once were king. A recent study from MocoSpace found that while 80 percent of social gamers play while commuting or waiting to begin appointments, 96 percent admit that they are playing these games at home from their couch, bed, or front porch…. These hundreds of millions of players and their numbers are growing all the time dash are changing the way we think about games and the gamers, and they are demanding a more games like experience from the rest of their world.” The World According to App Game terms such as game mechanics, points, badges and leaderboards are introduced. But do not look for code or discussion about best programming development. Instead the book focuses on ideas best meant for brainstorming. You’ll learn why rewards are popular – they lead to status, access, and power. The main process that makes games possible are laid out in six motivations – desire incentive, challenge, achievement/reward, feedback, mastery. To make these motivations real, goals are established in the game, but most games are now designed such that winning is not the main objective. Readers who own small businesses can benefit by paying attention to the behavior shifts mentioned in The Gamification Revolution. The author delves into the behavior economics and gets to the heart as to what is on the customers’ mind. Cultural attitude towards automobile is highlighted here. In previous generations, teenagers dreamt of getting a driver’s license and the perceived freedom that would come with driving where they want. Recent research has discovered that today’s young adults are ambivalent about driving. The fact that automobiles include more technology as a selling point is an affirmation of the shift. Topics like this are supported with the author’s questions meant to help the reader think about how behaviors are shifting. Your Move The text can feel like a word version of the game RISK. Zicherman and Linder provide interesting historical facts that give context to how gaming has really been a part of how things get done. Did you know refrigeration came from Napoleon’s demand for better food supplies for his military campaigns? “In 1795 he offered 12,000 francs to the invention that could solve the food presentation problem.” The historical factoids help drive home the point that much of gamification is not brand new – it’s been around for generations in different ways. The Gamification Revolution includes an app that supports the text in the book. It includes video collaboration tools with friends to see your ideas and a social media link for companies profiles in the book. All in all you’ll learn that the best way to beat the competition is to let your employees and customers experience as fun as possible. The Gamification Revolution will show the way to what fun works – while still having fun all the while. The post Get Your Business Game On with “The Gamification Revolution” appeared first on Small Business Trends.
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