Urgent Evoke

My Application to Urgent Evoke

I am an American expatriate living in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I am an entrepreneur who co-founded a Thailand-based publishing company in 2009. Previous to that I taught for 7 years at the University of Hawaii including courses in Internet marketing, organizational communication, public relations and entrepreneurship. Previous to that I was a network engineer managing global corporate IT networks for six years.

I’ve always incorporated new media technologies into my teaching, including early adoption of Twitter, wikis, blogs, YouTube and Second Life. I’ve taught crowdsourcing and implemented it in courses, challenging students to build knowledge repositories in a wiki as opposed to individual “right answer” throw-away assignments. I’ve used McGonigal’s “Why I love bees” as required reading in several classes. This led one of my students to do her senior thesis on ARGs.

Entrepreneurship

I co-founded a startup publishing company in Thailand in 2009 with a Thai business partner. I also taught innovation, entrepreneurship, and organizational change at the University level and have been fascinated with it since the late 1990s living in the SF Bay Area during the Internet boom.

Knowledge Networking

I have several blogs and websites and contribute on social networks (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr) and am a contributor to Wikipedia and WikiTravel (~1,000 edits), and have created over 10 new articles on Wikipedia. I also do network administration of my sites and occasional coding.

Vision

For me it is always important to have the big picture in view. Thinking about the future (not simply daydreaming) and how the future can be realized is highly motivating. I see many possibilities and challenge myself to look for creative solutions because the vision is one that is possible and achievable.

I am interested in helping out with Urgent Evoke. Let me know how I may be of use. Also interested in running this sort of game in my part of the world (Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Viet Nam).

Urgent Evoke Videos

EVOKE trailer (a new online game) from Alchemy on Vimeo.

Evoke is your crash course in changing the world.

The game begins March 3, 2010.

Reserve YOUR spot in the game now — visit urgentevoke.com


CREDITS

Creative Director – Jane McGonigal
Executive Producer, World Bank Institute – Robert Hawkins
Story Director/Producer – Kiyash Monsef
Game Development – Natron Baxter Applied Gaming
Graphic Novel Art – Jacob Glaser
Graphic Novel Colors – Anthony Deicidue
Motion Graphics – Nik Braatz
Alchemy voice – Adam Behr

“Through the Shadow and the Light (feat. Fahrenheit)”
by DJ Fab
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What is an EVOKE? from Alchemy on Vimeo.

This is not a simulation.

You are about to tackle real problems.

Welcome to the EVOKE Network.

There’s an old saying here: “If you have a problem, and you can’t solve it alone, EVOKE it.”

An evoke is an urgent call to innovation.

When we evoke, we look for creative solutions.
We use whatever resources we have.
We get as many people involved as possible.
We take risks.
We come up with ideas that have never been tried before.

Every Wednesday at midnight, the network will send out a new evoke.
Here’s how to respond.

Read the story.
Investigate the story.
Accept your mission.

If you respond to at least one evoke by May 12, 2010, you will earn your spot as a founding member of the Evoke Network.

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