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Do good, earn points: Innovative or corrosive?

mark | October 25, 2011

A frequent expectation, amongst those enthusiastic both about apps and about doing good, is that at some point we’ll work out a realistic and fun way to ‘game’ volunteering.  At which point, it willl take off like farmville and we’ll have a thriving economy of people doing good and earning redeemable points. This is reflected [...]

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