Comments on: In Praise of Occasional Brochureware http://www.epolitics.com/2007/02/12/in-praise-of-occasional-brochureware/ dissecting the craft of online politics and online advocacy Fri, 16 May 2008 02:19:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Nathan - Electric Cars and Solar Powered Homes: Possible Solutions To Stop Global Warming http://www.epolitics.com/2007/02/12/in-praise-of-occasional-brochureware/#comment-160795 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:22:45 +0000 http://www.epolitics.com/2007/02/12/in-praise-of-occasional-brochureware/#comment-160795 I glanced at the site you mentioned and I'm dubious of its benefits. I'm a professional online marketer and I also <a href="http://www.DancingRabbit.org" rel="nofollow">live in a community that is striving to be ecologically sustainable,</a> and I care greatly about using the online activism to help forward environmental issues. You say you should let the ends drive the means, which I agree with 100%, but what's the ends? To show people you have a website? That's not doing much for the environment. Raising money, getting people to take specific actions, those are things that I think that can make a difference and the site could do them, but it isn't set up with any "call to action." Do you get what I'm saying? Nathan I glanced at the site you mentioned and I’m dubious of its benefits. I’m a professional online marketer and I also live in a community that
is striving to be ecologically sustainable, and I care greatly about using the online activism to help forward environmental issues.

You say you should let the ends drive the means, which I agree with 100%, but what’s the ends? To show people you have a website? That’s not doing much for the environment. Raising money, getting people to take specific actions, those are things that I think that can make a difference and the site could do them, but it isn’t set up with any “call to action.”

Do you get what I’m saying?

Nathan

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