Encouraged by comments from my wife that my blog "isn't that bad," I've decided to trek on. I received an article in the mail from my best friend and fellow gamer from the WSJ today. You can read it here: http://on.wsj.com/ff8lAY. This article along with other things such as IBM's CityOne and the book Total Engagement by Byron Reeves and J. Leighton Read are starting to prove that gaming really will be shaping the future of workplace productivity, technology, and human interaction.
Why is it that gaming is having such a profound impact? Well, in my uneducated opinion, the answer is simple: Gaming is something that millions of people around the world enjoy - together. What I mean is gaming is a much more interactive media than anything else western societies enjoy today such as television, movies, or reading because in almost any game today, you interact with other human being and that interaction increases the enjoyment for all parties involved.
It is because of peoples enjoyment of gaming as well as its massive untapped potential as a productivity enhancement tool that I think in ten years, some of the most successful companies will have introduced gaming elements into much of their workplace environment. For example, why have a boring training simulation where you read a screen for an hour with a bit of lame flash player gimmicks when you could have something like IBM's CityOne teaching you about energy efficiency. Another example: Avatars that mimick your movements using a Kinect like device that you can use instead of a teleconference. Examples like this make work more fun which can increase productivity. What company doesn't want to see their employees enjoying themselves while putting out quality work? I think this is the wave of the future - only time will tell if I'm right or just some joker who spends too much time interacting with pixels on a screen...
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
First Blog - Jan 1, 2011
It is a new year and with that come new goals for the future. For me, I am starting a blog... here goes :).
I'll start off by talking a bit about what I plan to write about here. It will probably be all over the place, but the things that interest me are politics, sports, entrepreneurship, and general business. I will probably add in a picture or two here and there and probably post a bit about myself as well just because I feel like it.
The only thing that I think is fairly compelling to talk about right now is Bruce Pearl - the Tennessee men's basketball coach. It is pretty funny to me that he was on his soap box a few years ago about NCAA b-ball and pointing fingers at other coaches who were supposedly dirty and now we find out his hands were filthy. I heard today that the NCAA will be trying to treat his case similarly to Dez Bryant who also lied to the NCAA - I actually tweeted that they should do this a few months ago (twitter: @mdperovich btw) and I'm glad they are at least stating that they will follow through with this. It is always nice to get dirty coaches ousted so that the rest of mens ball can be a more even playing field even if some of the NCAA rules are pretty ridiculous.
Anyhow, hope you take a gander at this page once in a while and as I write, hopefully I'll get better :).
Miles
I'll start off by talking a bit about what I plan to write about here. It will probably be all over the place, but the things that interest me are politics, sports, entrepreneurship, and general business. I will probably add in a picture or two here and there and probably post a bit about myself as well just because I feel like it.
The only thing that I think is fairly compelling to talk about right now is Bruce Pearl - the Tennessee men's basketball coach. It is pretty funny to me that he was on his soap box a few years ago about NCAA b-ball and pointing fingers at other coaches who were supposedly dirty and now we find out his hands were filthy. I heard today that the NCAA will be trying to treat his case similarly to Dez Bryant who also lied to the NCAA - I actually tweeted that they should do this a few months ago (twitter: @mdperovich btw) and I'm glad they are at least stating that they will follow through with this. It is always nice to get dirty coaches ousted so that the rest of mens ball can be a more even playing field even if some of the NCAA rules are pretty ridiculous.
Anyhow, hope you take a gander at this page once in a while and as I write, hopefully I'll get better :).
Miles
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