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# [Gamification of Talk Clean to Me a CHICA-Canada hit!](https://www.viroxanimalhealth.com/resources/talkcleantome/2013/06/gamification-of-talk-clean-to-me-chica.html)

 Written by [Nicole Kenny](https://www.viroxanimalhealth.com/resources/author/nicole-kenny) | Jun 6, 2013 8:32:00 PM

For many of our readers, today is likely your first day  
 back from the annual [CHICA-Canada conference](http://chica.org/conf/pdf13/13_ProgramFinal.pdf) (Canada's National Infection  
 Prevention and Control Association).    
 The speaker line up and breadth of topics was impressive.  Opening<http://www.blogger.com/> the conference was [Dr. Martin Wale](http://pathology.ubc.ca/faculty/martin-wale/)  
 from Vancouver, BC with in inspiring talk on "Thinking Differently About  
 IPAC: A More Strategic Approach".   
 The closing session was given by[ Sir Liam Donaldson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Donaldson) from the United  
 Kingdom talking about "[Global Patient Safety](http://chica.org/conf/13_presentations/tuesday_liam_globalpatient.pdf)".

The Clean Freaks "[gamified](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification)" Talk Clean To Me by  
 creating a "It's Time to Get Social" game. Each delegate was given a  
 Talk Clean To Me button with a unique number and challenged to talk to other  
 delegates through whatever means necessary to find their match (e.g. another  
 delegate who had the same number on their button).  As the days progressed we had people during  
 question period following the seminars introducing themselves and their number,  
 we had presenters add their Talk Clean To Me number at the end of their  
 presentations, many tweeted using the #CHICACanada2013 hashtag and one delegate  
 used her Outbreak Management sleuthing skills to track down her match literally  
 by following up with "contacts".   
 She knew the facility the person was from and quite literally tracked  
 her down amongst the 500 plus delegates!

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Alexis Silverman (Top Centre) found her match with me  
 winning the grand prize of an iPad Mini.   
 Shirley MacDonald and Camilla Levers (bottom left) and Nancy  
 Todd-Giordano and Barbara Catt (bottom right) found their matches and will  
 receive free registration to the Virox Cleaning, Disinfection and Sterilization  
 Symposium Pre-Conference Day at the 2014 CHICA-Canada conference in Halifax,  
 NS.

Thanks to everyone who played along with us!  If you are in Fort Lauderdale this weekend  
 for the APIC Conference be sure to drop by our booth to get your Talk Clean To  
 Me mug and [Webber Training Infection Control Posters](http://webbertraining.com/)!

*Bugging off!*

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Nicole

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