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So we have recorded episode 2, and are looking for time to edit and add music, etc. Would love to get feedback from listeners on our choice of music. Suggestions for additional creative commons or permission included music.

Your friendly neighborhood podcasters are swinging back into action again with a new podcast for a new year — games at work. The inaugural episode 00001 (both in binary and base 10!) kicks off with your trio of hosts, Michael Martine, Andy Piper and Michael Rowe consider several games, from Foursquare to Waze to Oink to Square, and how the social interaction and competition among friends helps to keep the gamers coming back for more.

Games at Work goes back to the early roots of what brought your hosts together in the first place — a love of games and how the intersection with business and social technologies make them more than simple pastimes. The podcast will explore where games are being used for business results today and how existing games may be adapted to new ways of creating social, economic and other values.

We’d like to thank Zebes System for their awesome version of the MoonPatrol theme.

Your hosts are eager to interact with you via multiple paths — you can use 140 characters on Twitter, send an email or even a gamecenter friend request! Check us out at twitter.com/gamesatwork_biz .

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On Friday of this past week, Michael M. and I met to discuss the ever delayed rebirth of Dogear-Nation, AKA- PlayingGamesAtWork.biz .  We’ve been struggling to get time in our days to get this launched, and we will not launch until we can get all three of your favorite hosts back together.  Between work projects, traveling, and presentations at various conferences, it appears that we will continue to be delayed.  We also realized that we are getting closer and closer to the holiday season, which will once again cause travels, work projects, and home projects.  As such, we will probably be delayed even further.

One thing that we agreed on;however, was that we should start blogging on the site to let you know what is going on. And perhaps even include some of the exciting things that we may have talked about on the show, had we recorded a show.  So I decided to share first.

Back in September I was lucky enough to participate in the very first vPEARL conference.  This event, co-sponsored by e426.org, IEEE, and VeCoLab, was all about the topic that founded this podcast – leveraging gaming technologies and virtual worlds for education, business, and entertainment.  I participated as part of VECoLab, helping to define and organize the event, but everyone there also was an active participant in the activities.  We had a bunch of virtual worlds provide environments so that the participants could experience them, while coming up with innovative solutions for real world problems.  The challenges included nutrition, extremely large virtual events, and many others.  The speakers were a fascinating array of Gaming, Entertainment, and Social innovators – highly recommend that you check them out at VeCoLab. There was also a documentary being filmed of the whole event, which I can’t wait to see.

The event ended with a set of presentations by each team on how they could use this technology to solve their challenges, and the VeCoLab team captured all the practices as the foundation for a database of best practices.  All participants agreed to provide these as part of a Creative Commons license.  Another event is tentatively being planned in 6 months.  Can’t wait to see this unfold.

So, we finally got the GamesAtWork.biz address setup. For the time being it will redirect you to the main page at dogear-nation.  Sorry it is taking us much longer to get ready for the new show, etc.  But unfortunately there’s a lot going on in all of our co-hosts’ lives and day jobs right now.  We are really looking forward to brining you the most exciting and fun podcast we can produce.  We just need to get time to get back on a recording schedule.  Keep the emails, tweets, tags, and feedback coming.. And we promise we’ll be back soon!