Here at AOK, our team is working on more than an app and more than a website. We are working on building a community – a living, growing, dynamic space for us to engage more deeply with each other to make an impact locally and, through Cause Currency, across the globe. It’s easy to slip into our routines, to orchestrate our days around maximizing efficiency, to hustle right past someone quietly requesting our help. But it’s also easy to pause for a second, take a look into the eyes of the people who surround us, and remember that we’re in this together. And isn’t it more fun that way?Pictory, the online photojournalism magazine, recently curated a feature entitled, “Local Legends.” These people (and in some cases their animals) have been adding color to their communities for decades, becoming as important to the identity of these diverse neighborhoods as the topography itself. Piragua Man, pictured above, can be reliably found on Avenue C in New York, doling out shaved ice in the summer heat. There are 21 additional Legends featured with gorgeous photography and brief essays here: Local Legends.One of the cool new features of the latest mobile app release is a way to view ‘My AOKs,’ a running list of all the mindful moments and kind gestures you’ve performed or observed since you downloaded the game. I can’t help but wonder what AOKs these local legends might share. As AOK grows, I hope we can find out.
30 June, 2011
The Art of Community
Written By: AOKate28 April, 2011
Pay It Forward Day!
Written By: AOKate
Sure, you may not have known that April 28th is OFFICIALLY Pay It Forward Day, but now that you do, all those cool micro-kindnesses you do out in your world have their own holiday. AND their own app.Pay It Forward Day marks the launch of our beta app in the iTunes App Store and the Android Marketplace. It’s there for you on Pay It Forward Day and every day after that! Get the iTunes app here: AOK for iPhone and the Droid app here: AOK for Droid.The AOK team couldn’t be more stoked. Upload your AOKs and earn Virtue Points that go to real-world causes. AOK has issued a 500k point challenge, with a penny for every point the community earns. Check the point ticker here: AOK.
Act Locally, Impact Globally!
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Tag your "Acts" and "Observations" of Kindness using AOK's new mobile app (available on iTunes ), and, while you're at it, you can tune in to other players' AOKs happening all around you! Mobile demo
TophDaddy is 'backing' AOK... Literally! Sport an AOK T with your area code proudly displayed on the back - and give props to cool AOKs happening in your neck of the hoods. With every shirt you buy, 50% of the net proceeds go right back into rewarding the AOK community with "Cause Currency," that becomes real-world currency, donated to causes, charities, and relief efforts! Yee haw!
