Nathan P. Wallace's Page

Jim Henson once said coming up with good ideas is “just a matter of figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.” In my hometown of Buffalo, NY many good ideas are not being heard. Decisions that affect our city are being made with limited

information to draw upon for inspiration and strategic planning. Therefore, the goal of ReBuffalo.org is to revitalize Buffalo, NY…

Continue

As I was reading through the "five secrets of crisis communication" I was struck by how hard it is to be a good journalist, especially in today's global information age. I have always respected good journalism, but I never really thought about the challenges of journalism until now.



With technological and cultural change happening so quickly it is difficult for any individual to get a handle on the complexity of global issues. Nevertheless, this is exactly what a reporter has to to… Continue

Crises are not always bad. One way to define the term "crisis" is "a stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, esp. for better or for worse, is determined; turning point" (http://bit.ly/bd8PcP). My goal in the next year is to help my hometown of Buffalo, NY reach a turning point in addressing some longstanding problems.



I plan to do this by building a team that will design a unique website that will provide a collaborative… Continue

Having only read a tiny fraction of the posts on Evoke it is hard to make a judgement about the overall success of this initiative, but my personal experience with Evoke has been very enlightening. The structure of the game, with objectives sorted into "Learn, Act, and Imagine" categories is brilliant. The site successfully gave me the nudges I needed to do learn, do, and imagine things that I would not have learned, done, and imagined otherwise. Evoke successfully challenges agents to see how… Continue