#83 Play It Forward
My friend put me on to this site: www.akoha.com;
In a nutshell, you purchase a set of cards (for a very small price) that contain various 'acts of kindness'; each time you do one, you hand over a card which has a serial # on it - the recipient enters the serial # on the website and then 'plays the card' on someone else....you can then track the journey of each good deed via the site.
Besides being a sweet idea and a novelty, what I REALLY like about it is it gives you a 'prop' to kickstart interaction...I'm all for this idea of nurturing 'community' but it can often be plain shyness that stops adult strangers making contact - and a prop can help :)
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Super interesting. As an added bonus, the people behind this project are from Montreal, my hometown!
Wake Up Sydney's "kindness" cards seem like a similar concept?
thanks grant - i just signed up for the kindness cards too - this is going to be fun :)
I've been given Akoha cards before. What a great idea!
yes Wake Up Sydney kindness cards are very similar (and very local) www.wakeupsydney.com.au and www.twitter.com/wakeupsydney :-)
realised my akoha cards were being carried around in wrong bag and not being seen/ used regularly, so i moved a select few to my wallet and when i went to pay for breakfast the other day i saw them at just the right moment and asked the cashier to include someone else's coffee in my bill and to give them an akoha card as explanation...not sure who got it, but hope it made someone smile :) it's a cafe i frequent regularly so if they follow the instructions on the card they may see who i am and say hi when next at the cafe?! or not. doesn't matter anyway, point is, i reached out to a stranger. that's the whole idea, for me, anyway!
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