NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It's literally game on at the CU Water CoolerSymposium.
|This year, the 125 attendees gathered at the Frist Center forthe Visual Arts were issued a gaming challenge for prizes rangingfrom Brent Dixon's new album and variety of cool gadgets, to aninteractive badge granting access to SXSW.
|The top prize? Becoming a CU Water Cooler editor, who inaddition to blogging, sharing their daily links of what they'rereading, will have the opportunity to speak at the nextsymposium.
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Described at the start as the true interactive game-fication ofthe conference, attendees were split into randomly selected teamsindicated on their badge by colors of red, purple, green, blue orgold.
|The teams and individuals have one day to complete missionsranging from publishing a blog post about how to apply retaillessons of Nashville's Broadway to credit union operations andasking a question during the Q&A to performing karaoke to acountry song of choice.
|Each task has been assigned a range of points, and attendeesturn in their sheets Friday morning.
|While for the most part honor-based, ultimate verificationhappens on Twitter. If it hasn't been posted, then it didn'thappen.
|The true goal? Get people exploring, thinking and networking ina new way; basically living the whys behind launching the CU WaterCooler and Symposium three years ago.
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