Timothy Moenk

Since I haven't yet taken the time to write a personal bio for myself, I'm copy-pasting my slightly out of date 'official' bio from the What a Concept! "corporate blog". I find this act both offensive and utterly inappropriate, and hope to write a personal bio for this my occasionally updated personal blog soon! (And one that's not so slanted towards my work in virtual worlds at that. I've been primarily working in the real world this past year!)

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Timothy worked with the Acceleration Studies Foundation (ASF) where he facilitated the expansion of the Future Salon Network: an educational outreach program in which forward thinking individuals meet to discuss trends and innovations in science, technology, business, and society. He also provided support for the ASF's Metaverse Roadmap project. This project began with the invitational Metaverse Roadmap Summit in which a diverse group of fifty-five industry leaders, technologists, analysts, policy makers, and academics convened to begin creation of a futuring and industry roadmap document that explores the convergences between IT, virtual worlds/video games, and geospatial technologies leading towards the emergence of the 'Metaverse', or 3d web. Within this space, Timothy has been highly active in exploring virtual worlds and simulations such as Second Life and Google Earth as a platforms for communication and collaboration in education, business, and non-profit work.

He has participated in the production of a number of virtual events including the American Cancer Society's very first virtual Relay For Life in which six thousand dollars was raised for cancer research and support programs (and over one hundred thousand dollars raised this past year! Go team!) He is also involved with TechSoup, a non-profit that caters to the technology needs of other non-profits, who have been boldly taking a lead in utilizing Web 2.0, online social networks, and virtual world technologies to accomplish their mission. During the 2005-2006 academic year, he was involved with the New York Law School's Democracy Island project within Second Life which sought to explore the possibilities of utilizing virtual worlds as online civic space.

In non-virtual space, Timothy is a member of the Young Democrats of Georgia as their New Media Coordinator. He is also the organizer for the Atlanta NetSquared Meetup, which is an educational program from TechSoup that explores how social media can be utilized by Nonprofits and activists to spur social change.