There's a website where you set up a profile, with incentives in the form of badges, and a supportive social media community to cheer you on as you strive to meet your daily word targets.
Motivate people: Recognition in the form of badges or certification are good incentives.
Besides this scoring award, accomplishment of tasks or other objectives are checked and additional awards in the form of badges or game levels may be given.
Completing these, in turn, will give the user "digital micro-credentials in the form of badges and certificates that appear on their AWS Educate profile," AWS says.
The ads will likely come in the form of badges and promotions for particular locations on the map — for example Starbucks putting in its own branded badges on its city locations.
Students will be rewarded, in the form of badges, for completion and mastery of certain tasks and skills and will be able to share their successes, challenges and key lessons learned with their support network and peers.
These developments set the general pattern of modern coinage, usually with an obverse portrait and some form of national badge or arms on the reverse.
Orkut members who also have a Google+ account are now being rewarded in the form of a badge reading "Google+ user," which they can choose to make visible on their Orkut profile.
Whether this would take the form of a badge system or something else entirely seems up in the air — at this point it sounds like such a system is still early on its its development, but it's clearly an idea that's being floated around the YouTube offices.
There is now added inducement for the lazy in the form of digital badges, and you can share your exercise progress on Facebook.
