I've done a lot of travelling and often to some fairly dangerous places. When you land somewhere you have never been before, you want to find a guide you can trust.

Recently I have been to some Social Media talks, most of them to get an idea of how it feels to be on the other side of technology, and two things are for sure,

1. Many people who know they need to be in Social Media are bewildered, confused and extremely frustrated;
2. and the answers they get to their questions and concerns are not helping them to participate.

In this excellent TED video Seth Priebatsch speaks about School as a game, but not a particularly well designed game: 
"If we called 'Valedictorian' a 'White Knight Paladin level 20' I think people would probably work a lot harder."

I believe that Social Media has set the stage for serious game playing.

Last decade was the decade of social, this next decade is the decade of games. Seth Priebatsch

And, just for the fun of it, we had a little competition running on our website which was won by Jon-Mark.

Jon-Mark is now the proud owner a Pixel Mug:

You can still play if you'd like to here; Have some fun!

The US Department of Labour's Bureau of Labor Statistics sounds like a fun place to work!
Nonetheless they have recently released some unemployment statistics and someone has made them into an exciting interactive map:

The stats cover state by state unemployment records from January 2007 when the national unemployment rate was at a mere 4.6% to May 2010 when it reached 9.7%!

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