Empathy is AOK! A social game for good & online community that makes sharing positive actions playful, rewarding and impactful.
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AOK's a social game for good, online community & customizable cause marketing platform that makes sharing positive actions playful, rewarding and impactful.
Sobre ti
Sobre ti
Nombre
Ira
Apellido
Liss
URL en Twitter
https://twitter.com/#!/actsofkindness
URL en Facebook
Sobre tu organización
Nombre de la organización
AOK Media, LLC
Sitio web de la organización
País de la organización
Estados Unidos, CA, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Tu organización es
Empresa
Tu rol en la Educación
Otro.
Tipo de escuela(s) afiliada(s) con tu solución:
Otro
¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?
1-5 años
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Innovación
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Inicio (iniciativa piloto que acaba de empezar a ponerse en práctica)
¿Hace cuánto que viene operando tu organización?
Operando menos de un año
La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?
Social networks are well known as places to share life moments, connect & get social validation. The value & sociological effect of "sharing" is massive but there's need to go deeper into the human experience, which includes positive social action. People already do good deeds but would do more if shared & if a rewarding & connected experience.
AOK is where daily good deeds & positive acts are shared, validated & rewarded, which infuses more empathy in the world via AOKers' collective positive Acts & Observations of Kindness. A "best of breed" solution with networking features familiar to Facebook & Twitter, AOK also rewards users with gaming elements common to Foursquare & Freerice.
AOK's a "gamified" social network that meets the human need to share & validate positive action.
La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.
AOK's robust UI displays users' "brands of kindness" via posts, shares, comments, likes, maps, following & points earned for each AOK. Redeemed points go to cause donations or brand discounts & prizes. Never before have people of all ages easily tracked, shared & received rewards for positive social action, even when these moments are ephemeral/ancillary to life.
For schools, AOK's light integration is a custom group page per class or school. We also aggregate AOKs from group-chosen "brand of kindness" via "Flashtags" (like Twitter's hashtag), activity feed widgets or our interactive Facebook app. Contests & custom rewards provide incentives. Schools/classes host competitions, driving kids to top leader boards & earn the most points. Our white label ("Gameboard", a deeper integration) gives schools their own game & social network for causes.
Roadmap features interactive graphic views of the "butterfly effect of good" & limited edition virtual art earned according to AOKs posted.
El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias
A person, often school aged & perhaps without experience supporting causes, joins AOK. Within days, they may see someone helping another fix a flat tire. They photograph the moment & post an Observation, earning 50 points. Conscious now of how Acts & Observations are real currency at AOK, that same person waits for a school bus near a 7-11 & may see stray cups on the ground. Instead of expecting someone else to pick them up, our AOK'er does it. They post the Act via an iPhone or our website, get 110 points & create a "Flashtag" called *CleanABusStop. He/she encourages friends to do likewise by sharing the Flashtag on Facebook & Twitter- earning another 100 points. Soon, friends join AOK & pitch in on the *CleanABusStop campaign. Local bus stops get cleaner. AOK then aks 7-11 to incentivize more AOK's by offering coupons to AOK'ers who present *CleanYourBusStop AOK reward screens (7-11 may customize this screen) to cashiers.
The result?
1) Thousands of students nationwide make bus stops clean, get rewarded with either discounts or the option to convert points into donations to causes & relief efforts & they become more mindful of their impact.
2) School admins track individual, class &/or school's "AOK Impact" via myriad metrics- quantifying results with data.
3) 7-11 gets CSR credit, schools crowd-source empathetic behaviors & social action & communities improve.
Now extrapolate this experience, imagining "AOK Ambassadors" (students) organizing school-school competitions. Students compete for prizes & social status & the "AOK Score" becomes a standard!
El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?
The "for good" landscape is burgeoning since cause marketing became a competitive advantage. And schools now offer emotional intelligence lessons. There are more competitors than ever but none robust like AOK. Twitter for example, is used "for good" & their size is a competitive challenge, but a tweet's lifespan is short & doesn't directly benefit causes. AOK features "following" & aggregates tagged posts like Twitter, yet AOK's impact beyond posts & engagement are cause donations! Foursquare's a location-based game but not "for good". AOK's mobile app is like Foursquare & effects positive change! "For good" leaders (Tonic, Freerice & CauseCast) are scaled but AOK's unique proposition to users is a lifelong diary of social change & a social network/game totally dedicated to social good.
Ahora que has pensado en tu innovación, ayúdanos a presentarla.
Define tu empresa, programa, servicio o producto en 1-2 frases cortas. [136 caracteres/25 palabras]
AOK is a social game for good and online community that makes sharing positive actions playful, rewarding and impactful.
Identifica lo que es innovador en tu solución en 1-2 frases cortas. [136 caracteres/25 palabras]
AOK's unique & engaging because we wove social networking & a game for good. Roadmap: Disruptive UI "The Wave" & "Tats" are on next tab.
Impacto social
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¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
Our community, now with AOK'ers in over 7 countries, already posted enough positive social action for us to donate to & promote causes like Global Green, American Refugee Committee, American Red Cross' relief in Joplin, MO & Japan, a middle school in Sequoia, CA & The Pacer Center for the Prevention of Bullying. At a client level, Russell Simmons' Peace Week event, hosted by LifeCamp, just used AOK to convert participant lessons-learned into action- And now they're using AOK for future events! At the user level, many AOK'ers, mostly students new to social action, reported increased mindfulness about everyday surroundings & a zeal to do more- from their part towards the environment, to generally behaving more empathetic & gracious.
San Diego State's "30 days of AOK" campaign (http://aok.tv/*sdsu) demonstrated teacher & student enthusiasm for AOK's tools last year.
AOK's best is yet to come! With "The Wave" & "Tats" features imminent, if schools embrace AOK, our impact will soar!
¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?
We're projecting our community at low 7 figures within 2 years from our August, 2011 launch & doubling that figure by the end of our 3rd year.
But that doesn't speak to our projected IMPACT during the next 1-3 years.
One of our core long-term goals is increasing societal mindfulness by making social responsibility fun & rewarding. We've witnessed positive transformations of behaviors among our team & among people who'd never prioritized doing or noticing good deeds.
It's nearly impossible to quantify exactly how we'll impact the next 1-3 years. But if we hit our adoption targets as planned, we're projecting a trend (especially among school-aged people) where "being AOK" will be a hip thing to do.
And that trend can become a more evolved & empathetic humanity! That's AOK!
Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto
6-month plan is to license our "activation engine" suite of tools to brands, schools & orgs & get CSR sponsors down the road.
Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.
Tarea 1
License our platform to enough paying communities to prove our monetization strategy (about 2 deals per month).
Tarea 2
Forge partnership with a "for good" products marketplace to redeem AOK points (now in talks with Ebay's World of Good).
Tarea 3
Build & deploy "The Wave", aka a graphic interactive nodal representation of the "Butterfly Effect of Good". This is WAY cool!
¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.
Iterate Features, Scale & Land Series A Funding!
Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses
Tarea 1
Build & deploy "Tats" page, aka limited-edition &/or celeb-created graphic art that manifests unique to each AOK'ers behavior.
Tarea 2
Confirm adoption of the 1 millionth AOK'er. Celebrate @ The Avalon Hotel in Beverly Hills, where AOK was born. Nurse hangover.
Tarea 3
Demonstrate profitability & enough community scale to attract VC interest. Negotiate, close deal & celebrate! Nurse hangover.
Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.
AOK was conceived by Ira & Lynn Liss, a married couple working in separate industries- Ira in Hollywood & Lynn in startups via management consulting. They'd similar feelings about personal responsibility & discussed EVERYTHING so were bound to work together. Lynn co-founded a video share site that incentivized micro-activism (TGO) & Ira later moonlighted to introduce celebrity clients. Ira met with Adrian Grenier (actor/activist & SHFT cofounder) who conveyed a long-time passion to build a picture share site about kind acts. A TBD joint venture would soon be forged!
Weeks passed. Ira & Lynn noodled incessantly about viable SHFT/TGO JVs, saw Foursquare explode & researched the landscape. Then, a moment of clarity in the car: It struck them that people yearned to take part in the "values revolution" & that a game could be the PERFECT vehicle for it!
They were delighted to then learn a "games for good" niche existed & so pitched a leader in the space, Natron Baxter, who accepted!
Sostenibilidad
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Founding partners include Webby award-winning SHFT, award-winning cofounders of TED speaker, Jane McGonigal's Gameful.org, Natron Baxter & the Webby award-winning designers, Ludlow Kingsley.
Since launch, AOK's partnered with and/or engaged clients such as cause marketing firm, Make Things Matter, founded by former marketing firm, Syrup; Russel Simmons' Life Camp, with whom we'll pilot our "Ambassador Program" for urban youth; The Discus Awards, which recognizes significant achievement by High School students & TED's Charter for Compassion, for which we currently supply a Facebook app.
¿Qué tipo de equipo (personal, voluntarios, etc.) te asegurará que logres las metas de crecimiento identificadas en la sección de Impacto social/i>?
In the trenches, AOK's devoted team of about a dozen adroit tech & media geeks has included the likes of an original Kickstarter developer. Our Community Mgr is AOK's vibrant personality & interns are our soul. They're all empowered, participating in weekly exec meetings, engaging challenges & consulting mindshare for our UI. Despite our wishes, all team players work at discounts to their value & market rate. Thankfully, these guys & gals pull nights, weekends & create hours as client deals warrant the output.
Our investor also hired seasoned C-level advisors to guide our macro strategy.
Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista
We're humble & hungry. We're not too proud. Ashoka's expertise, resources & community support are invaluable to us, so we're thrilled to accept resources, hear candid feedback & collaborate in all areas offered!
To the extent that anyone among Ashoka's board or community requests our assistance, AOK's delighted to lend a hand & offer as much support as we possibly can- whether or not we win.
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 | 48 weeks ago natty said: I mean, an initiative in game form to spread Acts of Kindness? This app, and the website of course, makes it easy and fun for all of ... about this Competition Entry. - leer más > |
| 49 weeks ago String-Ring said: I'm a fan of AOK and the collective mindfulness they encourage! about this Competition Entry. - leer más > |
| 49 weeks ago Dave Clarke said: Keep all that good energy coming, thanks, AOK! about this Competition Entry. - leer más > |
| 49 weeks ago Lynn Liss said: Thank you Mattel and 1440 Foundation for considering us for your special-focus prizes! We're honored and very enthusiastic to team with ... about this Competition Entry. - leer más > |
| 51 weeks ago GiftedNations said: AOK.TV is a great social media concept to post peoples acts of kindness and inspirational thoughts. We're excited about the ... about this Competition Entry. - leer más > |
| 58 weeks ago Dave Clarke said: The idea that the Web can be used to crowdsource and harness the good things people do every day and to motivate them to do even more by ... about this Competition Entry. - leer más > |
| 58 weeks ago Ira Liss said: Thanks for the encouraging words and for rooting for us, Martha! Really appreciate your thoughtful comments! Hope no one minds but sInce ... about this Competition Entry. - leer más > |
| 58 weeks ago Martha Preston said: I absolutely love the level of awareness AOK adds to daily acts of kindness. The game layer is extremely motivating, but the opportunity ... about this Competition Entry. - leer más > |
| 59 weeks ago Ira Liss updated this Competition Entry. |
| 59 weeks ago Ira Liss updated this Competition Entry. |