Serious Fun with Gamification

Game ON! app

If you liked our June story, "The Play's the Thing," about how the Green Meetings Industry Council used a multi-player game to help attendees engage with content at the 2011 Sustainable Meetings Conference, you're going to love this:

Elizabeth Henderson, chief sustainability strategist at Meeting Change and conference program committee chair, and Mitchell Beer, president of The Conference Publishers, have released a 40-page case study about the experiment.

Lights! Camera! Act Green!

As crucial as they may be toward making meetings sustainable, low-flush toilets and double-sided copies aren't exactly ... fun. But these fake movie trailers created by the fertile minds at Travel Portland are. This is just one of a handful of faux trailers that will make you laugh while making the point that Portland puts a high priority on sustainable meetings. Find more on the Travel Portland website.