The Action After Talk Project

Oliver Ding
CALL4
Published in
7 min readApr 10, 2020

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I am founder of CALL (Creative Action Learning Lab) and a co-founder and Creative Director of Doowit.co which is a “challenge” platform.

At CALL, I focus on researching Creative Actions and Action-based Creativity. At Doowit, my job is designing and marketing a brand new “social action” platform which aims to enable people to take action in real life with a “challenge-response” format.

Today I am glad to announce the Action After Talk project presented by CALL. First, the project calles audiences of TED talks and other conference talks to take actions after watching talks. Second, I will publish and host Action After Talk challenges on its channel on Doowit. Third, I will serve the project as curator and host challenges. You are welcome to join me as co-curator or co-host of individual challenge.

If you are a member of the TED/TEDx community, you probably know a phrase Action After Talk (AAT) that means a big challenge for local TEDx curators: how to drive TED/TEDx talks’ audiences to take real actions in their real life. The Action After Talk project is inspired by the phrase. I was an active member of the global TED/TEDx community. In 2008, I co-founded the TEDtoChina project with a student in China while I was living in the US. The project grew from a translation blog to a hub for the Chinese TED/TEDx community and we supported local TEDx…

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Oliver Ding
CALL4

Founder of CALL(Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.