The idea is only a couple of years old, but it has already spawned a host of breathless conferences, crowded seminars and (inevitably) TED talks.Some video-game designers are opposed to the idea on principle, arguing that gamification is really a cover for cynically exploiting human psychology for profit.
Overwhelming interest in the training session hosted by Major Seidel, Captain Flores and their colleague Patricia Babida, a veteran Air Force contracting officer, led the procurement team to schedule a second, equally crowded Saturday seminar a week after the first.
The fact is that some of our publicly funded universities are supplementing shortfalls in subsidy either by giving British student places to overseas students, or crowding the seminar rooms with extra bodies, and are thus using publicly funded facilities to garner private fees.
Think "Build an Android App," "become a Salesforce developer," and, for the community-ed crowd, a seminar called "Introduction to the Internet".
When we first attended Gothard's seminars, for instance, we were crowded into the St Paul Civic Center with thousands of other families who didn't seem all that different from us.
One recent evening at the Omni Berkshire Place Hotel, in midtown, sixty would-be producers and writers crowded into a conference room to attend a two-hour seminar given by the producer Jean Doumanian.
By Tad Friend One recent evening at the Omni Berkshire Place Hotel, in midtown, sixty would-be producers and writers crowded into a conference room to attend a two-hour seminar given by the producer Jean Doumanian.
It was there that he was spotted by the infomercial outfit Direct FX. "Right now I've given up doing seminars to focus on infomercials," he says, hoping to set himself apart as the arena gets crowded.
Pharmacy windows are crowded.
"I think that the Donald has awakened" on gun rights, he told a sparse crowd at a seminar that was open to the public.
