Gamification of Media: Digital Journal releases February ‘Power User’ list

Digital Journal today published a list of the 20 most active contributors on its network in February. The Top 20 list is published each month to report how Digital Journalists, bloggers and citizen journalists interact in an online media network.

“We would like to extend a huge congrats to those who made the top 20 list in February,” said David Silverberg, Managing Editor of Digital Journal. “With a large contributor base spread out globally, Digital Journal is proud to recognize the leading 20 contributors who showed they are masters of this new media domain.”

Digital Journal publishes a Top 20 list in recognition of top performers from the company’s massive gamification project that tracks and reports activity of contributors across the Digital Journal network. Recording actions such as quantity of articles published, frequency of visit and how engaged members are, Digital Journal rewards points and badges to individual contributors based on the amount of their activity. The members who stay the most active in the month are then rewarded with a “Power Users” badge.

In addition to creating incentive for contributors to participate in the social news network, Digital Journal aims to showcase talent and create a level of transparency that gives an open look at how people interact with a news organization and how user-generated content is valuable in the wider news ecosystem.

In no particular order, Digital Journal’s February 2012 Power Users include:

• Tim Sandle
• Yukio Strachan
• Arthur Weinreb
• Leigh Goessl
• Kim I. Hartman
• JohnThomas Didymus
• Kev Hedges
• Katerina Nikolas
• Anne Sewell
• Tim O’Brien
• Paul Wallis
• Igor I. Solar
• Elizabeth Batt
• Marcus Hondro
• Alexander Baron
• William Schmalfeldt
• Lynn Herrmann
• Tucker Cummings
• Lynn Curwin
• Andrew Moran

Digital Journal compiles data on a monthly basis and resets the points at the beginning of each month when a new competition begins. More info on Digital Journal’s gamification project can be found here.