tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1277522 2011-10-31T11:40:45-07:00 ...about games and learning, games and journalism, interactive digital communications, and how they matter TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8354a207469e201543689da5e970c 2011-10-31T11:40:45-07:00 2011-10-31T11:40:45-07:00

Beyond their demonstrated effectiveness as a medium for communications and community-building, serious games have great potential to reveal variables that influence audience retention, engagement and loss as well as the impact of various demographic data on those influences. By examining...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ImSeriousnet/~4/OTcmi1Ij5MA" height="1" width="1"/>

Anne Derryberry http://imserious.typepad.com/imserious/2011/10/big-data-the-overlooked-opportunity-in-games.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8354a207469e20154361516cf970c 2011-10-12T12:53:12-07:00 2011-10-12T12:53:12-07:00

Are you using badges yet? If not, you may be feeling the need to “refresh” users’ experience of your content by introducing a badge system. In all likelihood, one or more of your competitors has either introduced badges or is...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ImSeriousnet/~4/hYWhwaUjTtE" height="1" width="1"/>

Anne Derryberry http://imserious.typepad.com/imserious/2011/10/badges-we-dont-need-no-stinkin-oh-wait-maybe-we-do.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8354a207469e201538de109b1970b 2011-04-15T10:51:55-07:00 2011-04-15T10:52:27-07:00

I am currently a Fellow at Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute where I am focused on exploring the white space that surrounds the intersection of games and journalism. While my initial fascination with games and game design was in their...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ImSeriousnet/~4/IwhnPFvNXbQ" height="1" width="1"/>

Anne Derryberry http://imserious.typepad.com/imserious/2011/04/noozyou.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8354a207469e2013480a048d4970c 2010-05-09T13:07:50-07:00 2010-05-13T07:46:54-07:00

It's not that my relationship with Apple has been without its shaky moments before, of course. You would expect rocky patches in over a quarter century of being together. We've managed to survive Steve I, Lisa, John, Jean-Louis, and Newton....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ImSeriousnet/~4/bOkQnWn4WOg" height="1" width="1"/>

Anne Derryberry http://imserious.typepad.com/imserious/2010/05/concerns-of-a-wavering-fangirl.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8354a207469e201348009d8c2970c 2010-04-21T16:04:27-07:00 2010-04-21T16:25:08-07:00

Good "search" skills are misundersestimated, to borrow some coinage from our inestimable erstwhile president, George. W. Bush. Indeed, knowing which search engine to use for what purpose and then how to use advanced queries to find useful information can make...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ImSeriousnet/~4/jrU6Iu7s3rs" height="1" width="1"/>

Anne Derryberry http://imserious.typepad.com/imserious/2010/04/teach-them-to-search.html