Challenge: EVOKE others!

Comment by Jan Lampe on March 19, 2010 at 4:24pm

respect, so its actually 717 points for you. well. you have to ask the admins for those ;-)

for now, ill give you a point for the ewoks post - love the reference.

Comment by Karen L. on March 19, 2010 at 6:40pm

March 10, I found out bout Evoke from @joshnesbit 's Twitter. Evoke game already started a wk.

At that time, 9000 joined already. While that is a good number, I can't believe it is not higher.

I have been promoting it nonstop on email to my friends, on Google Wave, and of course on my Twitter http://twitter.com/googlewaveyour

Since then, I started a list on my Twitter acct

http://twitter.com/googlewaveyour/urgent-evoke-agents

and on TweepML

http://tweepml.org/Urgent-Evoke-Agents/

I tweeted to @mashable / Pete Cashmore to tweet about Evoke. He has a huge 2 Million following on Twitter. He tweeted about Evoke yesterday.

Evoke has gotten good press from lots of media including CNN, New Yorker, .....

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Reasons why it's important to act fast and furious to get more people to sign up as agents!

Why?

1. Over 11,000 joined since March 3. Does not reflect active agents. I'm sure some have stopped playing altogether due to personal reasons or Evoke was not what they expected, or they lost motivation.

2. Time is sensitive. Game already started. Ends in 2 mths. For those starting now, they feel bad about starting late and have to do 3 missions.

3. Vital to get new energy, new insight, new resources of people who want to contribute.

How will we do this?

1. I think Twitter, FB, any Web 2.0 is good to promote it.

http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/urgent-memo-to-all-urgent

2. Media to write more articles to post. Any big social media Twitter accts who have not posted about Evoke. Eg. Penn-Olson

3. Always link to your post, whether on here or out of Evoke the following because the dynamic energy of the 2 vids really provokes one to evoke!

Jane McGonigal's TED talk about gaming to save our lives

http://on.ted.com/8Chc

Robert Hawkins / World Bank Institute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZJ-cxaoCiI

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Finally, and this may be the most important of all. I can't explain it. I just know this intuitively.

Admin of Urgent Evoke needs to understand and update ASAP:

Leader Board needs to be all inclusive. All the members.

Not just the top 100.

If it leasts all 11,000 members' total Power points. It would be very motivating for all. I mean, even those at the bottom with say 15 points. They see they post their evidence, stay engaged, interact, their point totals goes up. Those who have 50 points who encourage the ones at 40 points and be inspired by the ones with 75 points!

Right now, it makes it seem like only the leaders exist. Only their Power points matter. It's not reflective of the 11,000 that signed up and getting points.

AND, one thing Urgent Evoke admin team to add to the site is the 2 Videos of Jane and Robert I mentioned above - should be added right on to the front of the site. Right on homepage to inspire those who have not joined yet to join, keep current agents motivated, and get all agents to discuss Jane's video and how it applies to UEvoke.

I really think this would even more dynamic energy into Evoke.

Ok, sorry for long reply. Just that. This has been an issue - promoting Evoke that I see needs to be addressed and fast!

Comment by Karen L. on March 19, 2010 at 6:44pm

Jan, could you suggested to Alchemy to put on main blog. Apologize once again for huge reply! Yikes. Issue close to my heart! Yeah, Twitter limit of 140 for me is let's say - too short ! lol.

Comment by Jan Lampe on March 19, 2010 at 7:02pm

thanks, do you by any chance know who i should contact to ask them to put it up there?

another thing i noticed, i think the 'urgent' in the mails sent from evoke makes webmail services (like yahoo) categorize them as spam (probably because of some nigerian urgent business proposal)

Comment by Philip Wood on March 19, 2010 at 7:20pm

I have been doing exactly this. Social networks and online games require a critical mass of people to be successful. I've been recruiting on Facebook via private messages, using "in-character" messaging to catch people's attention. This is the text I've been using, if anyone wants to cut and paste that is fine with me. Just remember to replace the two instances of the word "(friend)" with your friend's name, and switch my name for yours.

Subject: Facebook message service error code 545

#FACEBOOK MESSAGE SERVICE INTERCEPT: ACTIVE
#INCOMING EVOKE SIGNAL DETECTED>>>>
#URGENT MESSAGE FOLLOWS FROM AGENT PHILIP>>>>

(Friend)!
Sorry for the secrecy protocol, can't be too careful. Let me get to the point here. We need you on EVOKE. It looks like a game, but appearances are deceptive. This is real, and we have a very real and attainable goal: social innovation. This isn't a pie in the sky idea... we're making a difference *right now*. You can also become a certified Social Innovator through the World Bank Institute. If you have a pet social innovation project you can get funding, get noticed, make a difference. If you don't have a project, you will when we're through.

WHAT WE FIGHT:
poverty
hunger
water insecurity
disease
climate change
inequality
ignorance
apathy

WHAT WE CREATE:
economic opportunity
better education
food security
clean water access
sustainable energy
positive health outcomes
happiness
human rights
justice
community
resilience

Agent (Friend), your destiny is calling.
http://www.urgentevoke.com

#CARRIER LOST>>>>

Comment by Jan Lampe on March 20, 2010 at 9:30am

awesome. why i wanted to to it a tad different is because i personally do not know anyone who twitters in germany, and facebook isnt really important over here compared to other networks...
but good to see other people have the same idea.

Comment by Radhika Darbari on March 22, 2010 at 12:14am

Hey Jan, I want to set up a similar challenge just for network which meant to work as EVOKE just more organised after EVOKE to get real working agents together in a lasting network. Any chance maybe you can help and add that to you challenge?

Hi ALL,

I want to create a challenge for the Network to market my new platform http://evokeforever.groupsite.com and spread the word to even friends outside current network to check out website, or google or facebook group; Evoke Forever as featured in; http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/evoke-forever-three-platform

To get people dedicated for not just 10weeks but a long time in changing the world. Creating a sustainable developed world for all and sharing knowledge on issues relevant to us all.

Read the blog, share the knowledge, facebook groups/google group for less dedicated and for everyone who does I will grant a energy point of collaboration, just make sure to tag Evokeforever and ping me a message.

Take on the challenge!

Agent Radhika

Comment by Simon Brookes on March 22, 2010 at 9:51am

Thanks for the call Agent Lampe. We have featured your post but I would love you to add it to the NETWORK CHALLENGE thread of the forum here:

http://www.urgentevoke.com/forum/categories/challenge-the-network/l...

+30 for collaboration.

Great work

Simon

Comment by Jan Lampe on March 22, 2010 at 2:26pm

hey radhika - done (we are at partner universities, i just noticed)

simon - listed it: http://www.urgentevoke.com/forum/topics/challenge-evoke-others

Comment by Jan Lampe on March 28, 2010 at 12:19pm

so guys, do you care to give us an update?
ive gotten a few members to sign up, of which 2 actually post ;-)

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