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All About Evoke

 A few weeks ago, I became an agent http://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/HannahKohn in a global network of social innovators. Urgent EVOKE: A Crash Course in Saving the World opened on March 3, 2010. It’s a game, a learning experience, a social network, and a way to get involved all in one. It was designed and is directed by Jane McGonigal for the World Bank Institute.

EVOKE has been open four weeks and already has more than 13,000 members. The game will last 10 weeks, concluding in May, with a new quest and a new mission unlocked each week. In the first mission agents were asked to do three missions and one quest. Learn one was about finding a secret code of innovation. Act one was about choosing a hero to shadow or follow. Imagine one was about when Alchemy calls for you in 2020 where will you be.

Blogging is really boring. It can be kind of cool to read some blog posts, especially if someone knows what they're talking about and are passionate about it, but most of us are just not that interesting to have lengthy topics nor do most of us have time to develop and articulate them well. So in the interest of sparing you a blog post I will outline the top 3 reasons why blogging is always going to have a niche status for particular areas but discussion groups will rule the day in the Blogosphere.

This image below of men on a scaffold describes collaboration on 2 levels - imagine the man on the top controls what everyone beneath him does and while people will try to convince him and those in between the bottom and the top that what they want to do is best, the man on top controls all. What discussion allows is for people to move up and down the ladder to work with the person that is on top to create the best product possible. This I believe leads to more engagement in work and promotes more creativity.

My parents always say "Don't talk to strangers online"

So there is a lot of talk about this site called twitter. I want to know what is up with this site? Is it good?

In technology class we have signed up for the following microblogging services. Twitter, Jaiku and Friend Feed.

This website shows the digital etiquette for blogging in schools. In that school, students were supposed to keep student blogs and there was a set of rules they had to follow.

This was a very helpful source for my research. I learned about all these things that you should remember to do when using email, twitter, facebook, and other things.

I read pages 1 - 22 of Pacific Crossing by Gary Soto and was confused a little by this. They were goign back and forth between their home and a plane to Japan. A little confusing to make sure where they are...but thwen the flight attendant knew spanish, a bit of a long shot.

    I am not always informed or amused by some posts. Sometimes they seem pointless and not important. Some of the posts of youth voices are pretty cool and interesting. They keep me reading. If a post has a picture then it would be a little more interesting too. With a picture relating to the topic you can stay tuned a bit and maybe relate the picture with the post.

A good blog is an expression of the natural human mind. It is, the crappy cliche, throwing up on the page (web page,) or diharrea (forgive me if this is spelled wrong, but i did not want to search it on the web) of the mouth. A good blog is meaningful; a good blog is true; a good blog is opinionated. A good blog comes from the writer being able to defend their opinions.

A well done blog post is one that attracts a reader just from the title. A creative title is a key factor in reeling in a reader that is glancing over a page. One thing to remember in making a title is to wait until the end of your writing, that way you find a title that really fits your piece of work as a whole.