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		<title>BigDoor&#8217;s Keith Smith in Forbes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s worth mentioning that today BigDoor Co-Founder and CEO Keith Smith is featured in Forbes, &#8220;The Net Breeds Promiscuity; Hang on To Your Customers.&#8221;  The article focuses on loyalty. As Keith states, &#8220;&#8230;your online customers aren’t as committed as you think they are. They’re just as happy to get into bed with some other brand as...]]></description>
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		<title>#Startup Growth; Everyone Pitches In</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the negative press that&#8217;s been out about working at startups we thought we&#8217;d share our experience. Like most startups, we&#8217;re moving at an incredibly fast pace.  To keep up with the demand our BigDoor team continues to grow. Today we welcome Gerry Narvaja the to team as our new DBA. Early next week Bill...]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Gamification @ Wharton</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BigDoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first ever MBA course on gamification wrapped up a few weeks ago at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. The course was offered by law professors Kevin Werbach and Dan Hunter. The experimental course was designed to explore game elements, psychology of motivation, legal and ethical dimensions of gamification and the basics of game design....]]></description>
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		<title>Vote for BigDoor!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year &#8211; nominations are open for the 5th Annual Crunchies! The Crunchies are an annual celebration of startups and technology hosted by TechCrunch, GigaOm and VentureBeat. We&#8217;re asking all BigDoor supporters, fans, enthusiasts, friends, family, partners and more to show your love and cast your vote for Best Overall Startup. The...]]></description>
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		<title>#Gamification News You May Have Missed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BigDoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Cyber Monday! We hope everyone had a fantastic holiday weekend. Take a break from shopping and read some gamification news you may have missed last week. Is gamification of driving the answer to urban speeding? ars technica 11/26/2011 – In the past few years, American drivers are seeing more and more electric and hybrid...]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving From BigDoor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BigDoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving to all of you from us at BigDoor! In two years we have been lucky to grow to 31 team members and more than 300 partners. We are extremely thankful for all of the support which has allowed us to continue to iterate and create new exciting products. We hope everyone has a...]]></description>
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		<title>#Gamification Short-Listed For Word of the Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love the word or loathe it &#8211; Gamification made the short-list in Oxford Dictionary&#8217;s 2011 &#8220;Word of the Year.&#8221; Each year Oxford University Press comes up with a Word or Phrase of the Year. The 2011 winner was Squeezed Middle, but gamification made the short-list of words for the U.S. selection. Gamification was among words including...]]></description>
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		<title>Techstars teams up with Microsoft Kinect</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BigDoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We just heard that our upstairs neighbors in the Techstars program are teaming up with Microsoft to offer a Kinect Accelerator program for ten firms early next year. The three month Kinect Accelerator program will provide $20,000 seed money as well as an Xbox development kit, the Windows Kinect SDK, entrepreneur mentor-ship, technical training and...]]></description>
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		<title>#Gamification News You May Have Missed</title>
		<link>http://www.bigdoor.com/blog/gamification-news-you-may-have-missed-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BigDoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We hope everyone had a great weekend! Last week was a busy week for gamification news, here are a few articles we don&#8217;t think you should miss. Foursquare starts leveling-up expertise badges VentureBeat 11/14/2011 Foursquare has made some changes to their expertise badges last week by adding the leveling-up feature. Users who obtain expertise badges,...]]></description>
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		<title>BigDoor&#8217;s Player Team Developer</title>
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		<comments>http://www.bigdoor.com/blog/bigdoors-player-team-developer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BigDoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, we would like to introduce you to another member of the player team here at BigDoor. Brian Beck is a developer who throws fantastic Twin Peaks parties and is originally from Cleveland, OH. What do you do for BigDoor? I&#8217;m a developer on the newly formed Player Team, meaning I spend a lot...]]></description>
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