Last week at Le Camping, we organized a “hold-up” with Kiva en Français (a non-profit organization which connects people through lending); MakeSense, which connects social entrepreneurs with individuals ready to take up their challenges; and HappyLife, created by Humanogames, a Facebook game born with the same idea of helping social entrepreneurs : the virtual players help social entrepreneurs in real life.
What exactly is a “Hold Up”?
It’s a tried and true method of brainstorming.
The goal is to extract original ideas from a group of about 15 people, revolving around a specific theme. This time it was all about reinventing the overall communication at HappyLife.
Happy Life, not a “serious game”!
So, HappyLife is by no means just a “serious game”, but actually a lot of fun, though it does also have a strong social utility. It’s an open market as 50% of the 800 milions people who use Facebook play it.
The idea is that a person playing HappyLife wins ‘happy cash’, virtual currency, which can be shared around by entrepreneurs, actual entrepreneurs in this case, thanks to private partners such as Babyloan.org and Kiva.
Thursday 10th, HumanoGames partnered with Le Camping, Kiva en Français and MakeSense to organize the first public brainstorm ever around HappyLife!
We gathered around 30 participants at Le [...]
Last week at Le Camping, we organized a “hold-up” with Kiva en Français (a non-profit organization which connects people through lending); MakeSense, which connects social entrepreneurs with individuals ready to take up their challenges; and HappyLife, created by Humanogames, a Facebook game born with the same idea of helping social entrepreneurs : the virtual players help social entrepreneurs in real life.
It’s a tried and true method of brainstorming.
The goal is to extract original ideas from a group of about 15 people, revolving around a specific theme. This time it was all about reinventing the overall communication at HappyLife.
So, HappyLife is by no means just a “serious game”, but actually a lot of fun, though it does also have a strong social utility. It’s an open market as 50% of the 800 milions people who use Facebook play it.
The idea is that a person playing HappyLife wins ‘happy cash’, virtual currency, which can be shared around by entrepreneurs, actual entrepreneurs in this case, thanks to private partners such as Babyloan.org and Kiva.