Lithium CEO: how game mechanics changes enterprise communities

Lithium‘s CEO, Lyle Fong, came to my house for a chat the other day. His service is being used by tons of companies to run their communities.

Now, companies have had communities for a long time. They might even be seen as boring, to take off a theme of my last post on eBay.

But why is Lithium winning?

Because they are using game mechanics to find the key influencers on a community and reward them with power. Why is this important? Well, when I was at Microsoft I learned that only a small number of people who are participating can make a HUGE difference to your community.

Listening to Lyle you’ll learn how this works to entice more people to put more content into these communities.

  • John Zicker

    Very interesting application of game mechanics to provide motivation for a community. One of the more interesting video interviews

  • http://www.bunchball.com/ Rajat Paharia

    It's great to see how Lithium is using game mechanics to drive value for their customers. And they will absolutely make their way into the enterprise. There was a book about it recently – Total Engagement. We're also providing our game mechanics/gamification platform to companies to use on their corporate intranets: http://www.bunchball.com