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Social Innovation - Act
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Your objective:
Choose a hero to shadow.
You're new to social innovation. You need inspiration.
Search for a hero online. Look for someone who's already tackling the world's biggest problems with creative solutions and entrepreneurial ventures.
Here are a few places to start your search.
- Afrigadget
- Pop Tech Social Innovators
- Development Marketplace
- Global Social Benefit Incubator
- Ashoka Fellows
Shadowing a hero means keeping up with their latest ideas and projects. You can:
- Friend your target on Facebook, if you can find them!
- Follow your target on Twitter. You can look for social innovators on Twitter here.
- Subscribe to, or bookmark, your target's Blog. Here are some places to look for social innovators who blog:Social Edge Blogs and 9 twitter accounts to follow and Great Africa Technology Blogs
Feeling bold? Step out of the shadows -- send a email, Facebook message or Twitter message to your target. Introduce yourself as a member of EVOKE, and tell them you've chosen them as a social innovation role model. If they write back, share their reply!
- Choose a hero to shadow
- Find at least one way to keep up with your hero online
- Make a video or write a blog post telling us who you picked, and why -- and how you're shadowing them online. Tag it ACT1.
This objective is worth +1 COURAGE.
Get credit for your evidence! After you submit your evidence in a blog post, photo or video, go to the newly posted evidence page and log your evidence for this objective. Then you'll receive credit on your profile page!
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