All Discussions Tagged 'evoke' - Urgent Evoke2024-03-28T10:05:06Zhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=evoke&feed=yes&xn_auth=noCloud+Classroom, my evokationtag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-05-03:4871302:Topic:1307622010-05-03T08:13:43.616ZGabriel Martinhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/GabrielMartin
<p align="left">Online Mentoring program</p>
<p align="left">(you can contact me at <a href="mailto:GabrielMtn@%20gmail%20.com">GabrielMtn @ gmail .com</a>)</p>
<p align="left">Update: Well, I have been refining this for a long time, but it feels so new still, its been a really natural experience, like breathing. Lately I have been studying other similar businesses, talking to software designers, and I have made a few decisions about my startup:</p>
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<p>1. We are…</p>
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<p align="left">(you can contact me at <a href="mailto:GabrielMtn@%20gmail%20.com">GabrielMtn @ gmail .com</a>)</p>
<p align="left">Update: Well, I have been refining this for a long time, but it feels so new still, its been a really natural experience, like breathing. Lately I have been studying other similar businesses, talking to software designers, and I have made a few decisions about my startup:</p>
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<p>1. We are surrounded with new tools that are powerful, mobile, cheap, easy to learn, easy to use, and soon will be ubiquitous. (Jeff Howe)</p>
<p><strong>Cloud+Classroom will bring these tools to students, assisting them in their primary education, as well as adults, because we never stop learning.</strong></p>
<p><br/>2. With these tools it is increasingly easy to learn, to contruct and express one's knowledge and insights, to exchange, to cooperate and collaborate, and to act collectively (Clay Shirky). <br/><strong>By using these tools together, we will learn what is missing, and what we need. Cloud+Classroom will be an open ear and advocate for its network. Also the power of collaboration needn't be explained to this crowd ^_^</strong></p>
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<p>3. Late teen and early adult years are cognitively peak years (Bob Epstein) and the young people are the primary users of the new tools (Kaiser Family Foundation and others). <strong>Cloud+Classroom will be the link between info and student, allowing them to learn and delve deep into their interests</strong></p>
<p><br/>4. All of the world's useful knowledge is already on-line or soon will be, and is readily acquired and mashed up for re-use by the new digital tools. This knowledge, circulating in open access formats, is better than the official knowledge because it is subject to rapid correction and augmentation (Judy Breck and others). <br/><strong>Cloud+Classroom is based around this concept, and combines it with the training of liscenced teachers and the energy of student leaders.</strong></p>
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<p>5. As a result teens and adults do not need schools and teachers, and in fact are infantilized and humiliated by their constraints (Epstein).</p>
<p><strong>By intellectually freeing students with the empowerment of the Cloud+Classroom network and tools, they can more easily grasp their primary education, while also carrying on a purpose driven pursuit of their interests.</strong><br/></p>
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<p>6. As a result the overwhelming percent of them hate their schools (Collins and Halverson).</p>
<p><strong>By using Cloud+Classroom to distinguish the difference between school, and education and learning, students can begin to love education, and also begin to see the point, and hopefully be more engaged in their schooling.</strong><br/></p>
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<p>7. At the same time all sorts of outside the system innovation is being generated by educational entrepreneurs, such as Live Mocha.(Curt Bonk).</p>
<p><strong>Cloud+Classroom will operate in a thriving educational market</strong><br/></p>
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<p>8. Meanwhile college diplomas are increasingly worthless as links to advantageous jobs,</p>
<p>unless they come from elite colleges -- it is the elite college link, not the diploma, that pays. And elite colleges are pricing the middle class out (as Kramanatz said this evening -- though this is hardly fresh news).</p>
<p><strong>Employers are starting to realize that the human resource produced by the school system is not the tool for the job. By supplimenting and supporting a students education, Cloud+Classroom will have many positive affects, such as: creating a network of employers and employees around the globe, giving students a community to support their endeavors, offering tangible training for in demand skills like conversational Chinese, or English.</strong><br/></p>
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<p>9. Larry Cuban is probably right that the schools have great internal capacity to adjust without changing in very fundamental ways -- they'll continue to be age-graded egg-crated curricularized test-oriented factories as long as they can. I might agree with Cuban not to expect much change from within.</p>
<p><strong>Can we afford to let another generation pass by without the ability or desire to solve the world's problems? How long will we be around if we dont create an atmosphere of collaboration, and use it to work together for the greater good. Stephen Hawkings says that we dont see any aliens flying around, or hear and radio from outer space, because civilizations usually kill themselves off. Do we want to be other casualty of ignorance?</strong></p>
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<p>*questions by Leonard Waks*</p>
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<li><div align="left">Its going to be a non-profit, whose goal is to provide learning2.0 tools to anyone who wants to use them, as well as an network platform for collaborating,</div>
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<li><div align="left">There will be two main sides to our company. A Web2.0 tool section, which will be a customizable search engine and a classroom/community section</div>
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<li><div align="left">The educational tools will be a revenue source, and will be the core of our business.A first goal is to the offer tools to anyone, allowing them to teach themselves whatever they need. The second goal, is to create a revenue flow from the use of the tools by using subtle advertising on the results pages. The only need is to create a sustainable pattern of bandwidth cost per search vs. revenue per search</div>
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<li><div align="left">The community side is directed at students and teachers, providing a network for them to use to study in groups, help with schoolwork by creating teams,</div>
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<li><div align="left">A foundation of our business will be supplimenting education for all ages</div>
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<li><div align="left">Another foundation will be flexibility, because not everyone will need the same tools.</div>
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<li><div align="left">A third foundation is simplicity: KISS (keep it simple stupid)</div>
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<li><div align="left">My mentoring platform is likely going to be Acrobat connect pro</div>
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<li><div align="left">My classroom platform will likely be an open source chat app</div>
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<li><div align="left">My communtiy platform will likely be on Joomla, because it is open source.</div>
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<li><div align="left">As a seperate revenue option, we will use Adobe connect to create a mentoring system. Teachers will likely find that they can easily and quickly make extra money tutoring and teaching online.</div>
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<p align="left">here are some quotes that may illuminate the market that I am in.</p>
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<p align="left">1. We are surrounded with new tools that are powerful, mobile, cheap, easy to learn, easy to use, and soon will be ubiquitous. (Jeff Howe)<br/>2. With these tools it is increasingly easy to learn, to contruct and express one's knowledge and insights, to exchange, to cooperate and collaborate, and to act collectively (Clay Shirky). <br/>3. Late teen and early adult years are cognitively peak years (Bob Epstein) and the young people are the primary users of the new tools (Kaiser Family Foundation and others). <br/>4. All of the world's useful knowledge is already on-line or soon will be, and is readily acquired and mashed up for re-use by the new digital tools. This knowledge, circulating in open access formats, is better than the official knowledge because it is subject to rapid correction and augmentation (Judy Breck and others). <br/>5. As a result teens and adults do not need schools and teachers, and in fact are infantilized and humiliated by their constraints (Epstein). <br/>6. As a result the overwhelming percent of them hate their schools (Collins and Halverson). <br/>7. At the same time all sorts of outside the system innovation is being generated by educational entrepreneurs, such as Live Mocha.(Curt Bonk). <br/>8. Meanwhile college diplomas are increasingly worthless as links to advantageous jobs, unless they come from elite colleges -- it is the elite college link, not the diploma, that pays. And elite colleges are pricing the middle class out (as Kramanatz said this evening -- though this is hardly fresh news). <br/>9. Larry Cuban is probably right that the schools have great internal capacity to adjust without changing in very fundamental ways -- they'll continue to be age-graded egg-crated curricularized test-oriented factories as long as they can. I might agree with Cuban not to expect much change from within</p>
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<p>To start, here is an email written to <a href="http://www.johntaylorgatto.com">www.johntaylorgatto.com</a></p>
<p>To whom it may concern,</p>
<p>My question and request is as follows: Is Mr. Gatto available to speak by phone, or if possible, in person? I am developing a team based mentoring and educational program using web2.0 features, and would appreciate with contacting Mr. Gatto to receive input. My program is one of supplementing secondary education with online materials and utilizing online homerooms while supporting and guiding students, in a team setting, to materials that they want to learn, and community activities in the real world that they want to do. Mr. Gatto's talks show him to be an expert on education, far past what I could hope to learn from reading his books, or at least in time to inact this plan, which I hope can help students as soon as this summer. I am presenting this business plan for seed money on the 18th, which is why I am contacting Mr. Gatto. From his talks, I can tell that adding his voice to the creating of our mission statement will direct our efforts in an insightful and intelligent way. To be honest, I am a defect product of an educational system that failed to fit me in a box, and package me for use (I attended seven high school programs before getting into the 99th percentile of the GED, and I am a 24 year old college sophomore, who is realizing my education never fit me and doesn't fit me now) Therefore, to be blunt, without his expert input I am fairly sure that I lack the knowledge to accurately direct this project at the largest problems of education, which is a large part of my goal, as a defect. If nothing else, a chance at an elevator pitch, would be greatly appreciated, to see if he approves of the current concept. So far, this is an one man project, which is to say I am working for my self and therefore have little to offer, but if possible, I will travel from North Carolina to New York for a meeting, and if necessary will pay a mutually agreeable amount.<br/>With sincerity and urgency, <br/>Gabriel Martin</p>
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<p>In that letter I describe, very briefly, the vision that I have. I shared that with Mr. gatto, because he is the best man to help me create a mission statement. Right now though, I need help from you all!</p>
<p>In order to flesh out this idea, and get quality design, I need your help! I have such a broad idea, that it has been hard to set it in stone. </p>
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<p><strong>here is an update:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Hi Gabriel,</strong></p>
<p><strong> Best to write John directly with your request. He doesn’t have e-mail or a computer, and rarely answers his phone...His home address is (adress was here).</strong></p>
<p><strong> thanks,</strong></p>
<p><strong> Roland</strong></p>
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<p><strong>( I have a friend in new york, he has agreed to deliver the message by hand, and even let Gatto use his phone, if possible. I will leave immediately If I can meet with him. I hope</strong></p>
<p><strong>to get the chance at a face to face meeting.</strong></p>
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<p>here are some things that I am working on (writing them out should help)</p>
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<p align="center"><u><em><strong>Mission Statement</strong></em></u></p>
<p>: As you can see above, I am taking the first steps of this plan very seriously. If you do not know Gattos work, he is has spent more time learning about education than I may ever spend on learning anything. With his help, I am sure that we will be able to avoid misconceptions and pitfalls in the coming days and weeks of planning what this program should be.</p>
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<p align="center"><u><em>Web2.0 tools</em></u></p>
<p> In this network, I hope to leverage some of the best and most usefull tools for students and teachers to use. These include a social networking platform, which so far my vision is to have a platform which eventually (after the student goes through orientation and is introduced to the system) organizes students into teams with flexible sizes, Im guessing around 20 people, but basically of a size that team leaders can manage. These teams would be part of larger groups, and large events could be easily organized by connecting teams and larger groups.</p>
<p>Some web20 tools for learning: here are some from a link that a friend sent, all these are possibles, but the goal would be to be able to leverage different widgets and tools, depending on what the team was interested in:</p>
<p><a href="http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2010/05/01/18-Web-20-Tools-for-Instruction.aspx?Page=1">http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2010/05/01/18-Web-20-Tools-for-Instruction.aspx?Page=1</a></p>
<p> <a class="fn url" href="http://www.moodl"><font color="#788F94">www.mood</font></a>e.org</p>
<p align="center"><u><em><strong>Hosting and business plan</strong></em></u></p>
<p align="left">Studying cloud computing has taken me from being ignorant of it, to not getting it, to understanding the value of it. Seeing the scalability and flexibility of cloud really was a big inspiration for me. Here are some cloud resources I used.</p>
<p align="left"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJncFirhjPg&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJncFirhjPg&feature=related</a></p>
<p align="left"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_S3">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_S3</a></p>
<p align="left"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Elastic_Compute_Cloud">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Elastic_Compute_Cloud</a></p>
<p align="left"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cloud_computing_vendors">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cloud_computing_vendors</a></p>
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<p align="left">As for the business plan, at first I will be using a site from <a href="http://www.ning.com">www.ning.com</a> as it is free. and easy to set up. But eventually tranferring over to a permenant platform will be necessary. To pay for these costs, I have listed some ideas (all different stages mixed together)</p>
<p align="left">Kickstarter (edit: applied)</p>
<p align="left">Newprofit.org</p>
<p align="left">Bill & Melinda Gates foundation</p>
<p align="left">ads in games</p>
<p align="left">paid mentoring</p>
<p align="left">in game giftin</p>
<p align="left">donations</p>
<p align="left">sell my car</p>
<p align="left">Ycombinator (edit: applied)</p>
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<p align="left">here are some tihngs I have already done:</p>
<p align="left">Put my Guitar on consignment for $995</p>
<p align="left">Create a free ning for the first team to use.</p>
<p align="left">Create this post.</p>
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<p align="center"><strong><em><u>Team leaders</u></em></strong></p>
<p align="left">My goal at first is to connect school teachers (as team leaders, and guides) to students. but the concept of team leaders is much more broad than that. Students could be promoted to team leaders, and some could start clubs at their schools. The flexibility of the network is key, to allowing promotion of students with the desire to lead. Here is a main concept of the program. Over time, team leaders and top students would be encouraged to engage with students abroad, mentoring each other, and creating powerfull netwroking skills, which can in turn create community leaders around the world. With students abroad, creating connections outside of the team, will become common, and the students can work towards whatever goals they wish, or just learn and make friends, the teams are self paced. I believe that these friendships could be a way to give all students a lesson in diversity, </p>
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<p align="left">Please, ask, discuss, critque! </p>
<p align="left">Shoot holes in it!</p>
<p align="left">The best possibility is for you to uncover a flaw, so that we can fix it.</p>
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<p align="left">Updates:</p>
<p align="left">Took part in an online interview with John Taylor Gatto May 6</p>
<p align="left">Signed up for Edufire May 6</p>
<p align="left">watching <a href="http://vimeo.com/11183976">http://vimeo.com/11183976</a> , will post notes from interview and video May 6</p>
<p align="left">Actually "met" wintermute Syncronously... Really nice!</p> Responding to complaintstag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-04-26:4871302:Topic:1051522010-04-26T16:29:30.123ZChris Ke Sihaihttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/ChrisKeSihai
I've stumbled across many complaints about Evoke as I've been reading, and it set me thinking about something someone once said to me: <span style="font-style: italic;">You don't have to get it perfect, you have to get it going.</span><br></br><br></br>Well, someone got something going, and it's called Evoke. It may not be perfect, but somewhere back during the first mission I read something about using what you have instead of worrying about what you don't have. All these criticisms may be valid, but…
I've stumbled across many complaints about Evoke as I've been reading, and it set me thinking about something someone once said to me: <span style="font-style: italic;">You don't have to get it perfect, you have to get it going.</span><br/><br/>Well, someone got something going, and it's called Evoke. It may not be perfect, but somewhere back during the first mission I read something about using what you have instead of worrying about what you don't have. All these criticisms may be valid, but I've decided not to let them dominate my thinking.<br/><br/>So, just for fun, dig around and see what you can come up with. Post all gripes and complaints below, and I'll try and think of either a rebuttal or a positive way to think about 'the opportunity disguised as a problem.'<br/> about 'about'tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-04-25:4871302:Topic:1036632010-04-25T04:53:04.570ZChris Ke Sihaihttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/ChrisKeSihai
I've just returned after a week off (thanks to Telecom for losing my payment details!) and found that Evoke is just as confusing as before. In fact, it's even more confusing. There seems to be a lot of disagreement over what happens after 12 May, for instance.<br></br><br></br>Is it possible for the people in charge to post a simple article explaining exactly what newbies are expected to do and how to go about it? Could they also link to this article prominently at the top of every page? I have…
I've just returned after a week off (thanks to Telecom for losing my payment details!) and found that Evoke is just as confusing as before. In fact, it's even more confusing. There seems to be a lot of disagreement over what happens after 12 May, for instance.<br/><br/>Is it possible for the people in charge to post a simple article explaining exactly what newbies are expected to do and how to go about it? Could they also link to this article prominently at the top of every page? I have referred a lot of people here and all of them have expressed frustration at the lack of clear information.<br/><br/>In addition, active members are getting up to all kinds of adventures which they then refer to in their posts under the mistaken impression that everyone else knows what they are talking about. It would be great if there was one regularly-updated page which people could refer to. <br/><br/>Please add your suggestions to this outline below:<br/>(I've tried to keep the language simple.)<br/><br/><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Greetings, and welcome to Evoke!</span><br style="font-style: italic;"/><br style="font-style: italic;"/><span style="font-style: italic;">If you're new here then you may be a little confused. There is a lot to understand and not much time, so we've written this article to try and make it easier.</span><br style="font-style: italic;"/><br style="font-style: italic;"/><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">What is Evoke?</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Evoke is a project of The World Bank Institute designed to help people learn about the most important social and environmental issues. We hope that you will use Evoke to identify problems in your own community and think of solutions to them. Evoke is also designed to improve your ability to make change. We want you to become an innovator, someone who is saving the world.</span><br style="font-style: italic;"/><br style="font-style: italic;"/><span style="font-style: italic;">At the centre of Evoke are the missions and quests. To complete them you will need to write short articles, take photos or maybe make videos. It sounds like a lot of work, but it's not that difficult. Most people only write 50-100 words each time, and this only takes maybe 30 minutes.</span><br style="font-style: italic;"/><br style="font-style: italic;"/><span style="font-style: italic;">There are ten missions we ask you to accomplish, and also ten quests. The quests are all about your own personal development. The missions are about solving the problems around us.</span><br style="font-style: italic;"/><br style="font-style: italic;"/><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Quests:</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">The word 'quest' means a search for some great prize. Many people have the ability to achieve great things, but don't know how to start. The quests are your starting point, and the prize is to become a social innovator - a superhero! Quests usually follow a simple format. There will be a few questions, and you have to write your answers in the space provided. That's all. Each quest asks questions about you and your life. By answering them, you will have a better understanding of your own abilities and come closer to being a superhero.</span><br style="font-style: italic;"/><br style="font-style: italic;"/><span style="font-style: italic;">Take a look at Quest 1. Click on '<a href="http://www.urgentevoke.com/page/quest-list">Quests</a>' at the top of the page and select '<a href="http://www.urgentevoke.com/page/quest-001-secret-identity">1- Secret Identity</a>' to see the questions. You can probably answer them quite quickly before you read about the missions.</span><br style="font-style: italic;"/><br style="font-style: italic;"/><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Missions:</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">A mission is a difficult task given to a special person - you. The missions are all about different topics and each mission is in three parts:</span><br style="font-style: italic;"/></div>
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<li>Learn - Our leader, <a href="http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/members/?q=alchemy">Alchemy</a>, has provided information about the mission. Your job is to look at the information and share your opinion about it. Tell us what you know about this topic by writing a blog post, taking a photo of something related, or making a short video.<br/></li>
<li>Act - Knowledge is not useful if we don't use it. After learning about the topic, you have to do something. We don't ask you build a house, but maybe you can find some information about house-building and share it with us?<br/></li>
<li>Imagine - We all want our actions to mean something. So think about the future, and imagine what your actions might mean. If you do something today, what will it mean in ten years? Even the smallest action has some effect, so don't be shy. Use your imagination.<br/></li>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">After you complete these three steps you will be credited for finishing the mission. It's that simple!</span><br style="font-style: italic;"/><br style="font-style: italic;"/><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Finishing Evoke:</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">If you complete all ten missions and all ten quests then you have completed Evoke. If you finish everything before 12 May then you will qualify as a "Certified World Bank Institute Social Innovator," but don't worry if you finish after that. Your ideas and learning are important, and the Evoke website will remain online as a resource for you to use in the future. (Maybe you should use this experience as practise for the next evoke in 2011?)</span><br style="font-style: italic;"/><br style="font-style: italic;"/><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Evoke Community:</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">In addition to the missions and quests, Evoke allows you to communicate with other people who are also trying to save the world. You can see their ideas, and they can see yours. If you see something you like, you can leave a message for them, and you can also give them "power points".</span><br style="font-style: italic;"/><br style="font-style: italic;"/><span style="font-style: italic;">When you vote for people, it encourages them. People will probably leave comments or votes for you too, so you will make friends all around the world. Maybe you will talk about your ideas with them, and work together on some project to save the world. Take a look at</span> <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/evoke-official-ongoing">the official Evoke projects page</a> <span style="font-style: italic;">to see some of the things that are happening on Evoke.</span><br/></div>
<br/>That's all for now, but I'll update it later. I think it needs a list of stuff that may be useful to know, such as what are Delta Team, etc.<br/> Suggestion: Add Language Supporttag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-30:4871302:Topic:734322010-03-30T19:31:10.860Zninmahhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/ninmah
<div>A quick suggestion for the EVOKE admins -- add the Google Translate widget to EVOKE. I've seen a number of posts (like <a href="http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/open-reply-to-alex-stowells">A. V. Koshy</a>'s and <a href="http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/my-dragonslaying-ideas">Sarah Shaw Tatoun</a>'s, both of which coincidentally respond to <a href="http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/can-you-help-defeat-the-dragon?xg_source=activity">a challenge by Alex…</a></div>
<div>A quick suggestion for the EVOKE admins -- add the Google Translate widget to EVOKE. I've seen a number of posts (like <a href="http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/open-reply-to-alex-stowells">A. V. Koshy</a>'s and <a href="http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/my-dragonslaying-ideas">Sarah Shaw Tatoun</a>'s, both of which coincidentally respond to <a href="http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/can-you-help-defeat-the-dragon?xg_source=activity">a challenge by Alex Stovell</a>) that state, quite correctly, that language is a barrier to participation in EVOKE. The translator widget will automatically translate the contents of the page into any of a long list of languages. It's not perfect, but it may be better than nothing.</div>
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<div>I'm certain, in a community of 14,000+ people, that someone has already made this suggestion. I was not able to find it, though. If so, I'd still like to reiterate the request.</div>
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<div>Thanks for considering it. I've posted this request both here and on my blog, to increase the chance of it being seen.</div> I want more games like this.tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-24:4871302:Topic:604082010-03-24T04:09:08.397ZAlastair Craighttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/AlastairCraig
<p>I like the idea of these kind of real world puzzle sloving games and this is a nice addition.</p>
<p>Personally i'd like to see a more ethicaly challenging game such as:</p>
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<p>What happens when the human population exceeds sustainability on earth.</p>
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<p>this is a problem that we will very likley face in the future. was wondering if anyone had any other ideas for games like evoke, particularly challengeing future catastrophes?</p>
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<p>I like the idea of these kind of real world puzzle sloving games and this is a nice addition.</p>
<p>Personally i'd like to see a more ethicaly challenging game such as:</p>
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<p>What happens when the human population exceeds sustainability on earth.</p>
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<p>this is a problem that we will very likley face in the future. was wondering if anyone had any other ideas for games like evoke, particularly challengeing future catastrophes?</p>
<p> </p> Challenge: EVOKE others!tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-22:4871302:Topic:554592010-03-22T14:15:50.635ZJan Lampehttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/JanLampe
<div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">EVOKE others!</span></font><br></br><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><br></br><br></br>Dear fellow Evokees,<br></br></font><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="4"><font size="3">I hereby challenge you to evoke others.</font></font><br></br></div>
<font size="4"><font size="3">Right now, we have about 11,5K agents out there, thats around 2000 more than we did yesterday. That is…</font></font></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><font style="text-decoration: underline;" size="5"><span style="font-weight: bold;">EVOKE others!</span></font><br/><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4"><br/><br/>Dear fellow Evokees,<br/></font><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="4"><font size="3">I hereby challenge you to evoke others.</font></font><br/></div>
<font size="4"><font size="3">Right now, we have about 11,5K agents out there, thats around 2000 more than we did yesterday. That is good, or awesome, to say the least, but I daresay:</font> <br/><br/><br/></font><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">We could do so much better.</span></font><br/><br/><br/></div>
<font size="4"><font size="3">At this rate, we will have about 50 000 active agents on May 12. I think you will agree with me when I say that in order to maximize our potential, we need more agents. Therefore I aim higher - and with hundreds of million of people on the net, the sky is the limit. The more agents we evoke (especially but not exclusively from Africa, Asia and South America), the more diversified and creative the projects will become. The issue I see is that not a lot of people have actually heard of EVOKE - and we need to change that.<br/><br/><br/></font></font><div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="5">Are you up for the challenge?</font><br/></div>
<font size="4"><font size="3"><br/><br style="font-style: italic;"/><span style="font-style: italic;">If so, please read and adhere to the rules below.<br/><br/><br/></span></font></font><ol>
<li><font size="4"><font size="3">By evoking others, I do <span style="font-weight: bold;">not</span> mean spamming forums asking for people to join. Please think carefully about who to ask to make sure they might actually be interested - each agent getting 2 or so people to join and stick is going to be better and more effective in the long run, and the last thing we want to evoke is a reputation as spammers.</font></font></li>
<li><font size="3">Stress the postive! Put emphasis on Evoke's strengths in your invitation.</font></li>
<li><font size="4"><font size="3">Ask those that join to also find at least one other possibly interested person - and do not be shy to ask important or well-known thinkers, creators and innovators for help and or mentoring.</font></font></li>
<li><font size="4"><font size="3">Spread the word any other way - how about writing to a newspaper or big news site, chances are, they would feature the community if they just had heard of it.</font></font></li>
<li><font size="4"><font size="3">Keep us posted on your progress by commenting/using the <a href="../../../main/invitation/new?xg_source=userbox">Invite</a> function on the right (Alchemy surely can track that) or make a blog post yourself, tag it CHEVK1 and share feedback.</font></font></li>
<li><font size="4"><font size="3">What are you waiting for? Remember, time is of the essence. We only have until May - so the earlier we start with this... Read the end of the post, and then get right on it!<br/></font></font></li>
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<font size="3"><br/>There will be some form of award, I am
not sure how though (because <br/>enlargening the network should be enough<br/>
reward) - however, I have asked Alchemy to award +3 Collaboration for<br/>
every successful evoke, and I will award points personally (but just one<br/>
for starters) since I have not heard from Alchemy. I do not know how to<br/>
track your efforts yet, so just comment and I will trust you on that.<br/><br/><br/>Okay,
thats all, on the count of three...<br/><br/>one... <br/><br/>two...<br/><br/>three...<br/><br/>EVOKE!</font><br/></div>
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