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Businesses like Badgeville, BigDoor and Gameful are leading the charge in providing easily-integrated solutions for news organizations interested in engaging with their readers in exciting new ways.

For more information on gamification in journalism, check out Newstopiaville, a blog run by 2007 Knight News Challenge winner Chris O’Brien, that tracks the growth and evolution of gaming mechanics as they relate to news.

Right now, there’s not a lot there, except for a link to a survey. If you have a great example of use of digital engagement in public services, please fill it in!

The new CMS, to be built with Django, will be both SEO- and social media-friendly. More importantly, it will include revenue-raising tools, including ways to manage subscriptions and levels of membership; compatibility with customer service programs and ad networks; and a credit card function for smoothly integrated donations.

This guide is designed to help users publish metadata resources onto data.gov.uk in compliance with the UK Location Information Infrastructure (outlined and detailed below), enabling datasets, dataset series and services to be discovered and evaluated by data users. Users who are not part of this initiative can find out how to publish their organisations data on data.gov.uk as part of the Government’s Transparency agenda at http://data.gov.uk/blog/publish-your-data-on-datagovuk-a-simple-how-to-guide