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Take Care When Playing Games Designed To Play You

March 7, 2013 By Jeff Turner 1 Comment

We are living in the golden age of “gamification.” Despite my openly expressed concerns for our culture’s infinite appetite for distraction, I’m a fan of gamification. Gamification, as Taige Zhang states, “leverages our natural desire for competition, achievement, status, reward, self-expression, altruism, and completion.” Done well, it helps promote user engagement and has been linked […]

Filed Under: Featured, Social Networking Tagged With: games, gamification, klout

What Behavior Is My iPad Use Modeling?

March 4, 2013 By Jeff Turner 4 Comments

“Daddy, I’ve never seen you read a book before.” Last Sunday I read a “real” book for the first time in a long time. I don’t buy paper books anymore. This one was a hard cover version of Trust Me, I’m Lying that was sent to me to review. I sat in the leather chair […]

Filed Under: Behavior, Featured Tagged With: behavior, children, modeling, reading

Why I Blocked Tumblr On My Home Network

February 5, 2013 By Jeff Turner 24 Comments

This past weekend I blocked access to Tumblr.com from my home wireless network. I’ve been blocking porn sites using OpenDNS for a long time. But Tumblr.com doesn’t fall into the category of porn site in the OpenDNS directory. It falls into the social media category. However, make no mistake, there is a large part of the […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: child safety, porn, tumblr

Eye Contact, Waving, And Community

February 4, 2013 By Jeff Turner 13 Comments

A middle-aged male runner was coming toward me, heading the opposite direction. Our eyes met and we greeted each other with a quick, “good morning.” A bit later, a middle-aged man was tending to his flowers a few yards ahead of me. As I ran by, I said good morning and I waved, but he […]

Filed Under: Featured, Listening

Diversity, Real Estate, And Leadership

January 23, 2013 By Jeff Turner 17 Comments

I was honored to be invited to last week’s CEO Summit in New York. Those in attendance were tasked with discussing “The Future Of Real Estate.” It seemed like the perfect topic for a gathering of some of the brightest and most truly influential people in the real estate industry. Frankly, I felt a bit […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: leadership, Real estate

Protecting Children From The Dark Side Of The Internet

January 4, 2013 By Jeff Turner 34 Comments

Every technology has both a positive and negative impact.  I’ve been writing a lot about Technopoly in the past few months. In the last few days, the social media behaviors of teens in the wake of the alleged rape of a 16-year old girl in Steubenville, Ohio, have been exposed in the harsh light of […]

Filed Under: Featured, Technology Tagged With: behavior, children, opendns, pornography, responsibility

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