Bruce,in relation to new cyber tools,You Tube is
one of the new mediums that is very popular,is it worth as a group making a
video to put onto You Tube,l know within the group the are one's that have
performing backgrounds, and would be able to do a professional
presentation,the more exposure l believe the better,some poeple prefer to watch
then to read.
A few other points:
It is interesting see that the Solomon Islands Star
Newspaper which was continuely trying to undermined the government is starting
to write some good stories about the government programs.
To the Europe group, the European Union where did
the idea for this come from,who was behind it's formation.
Bruce the Neo Converatives must have had a bit of a
shack up recently over Iraq war, they have created one big mess.
Onething we should never loose sight of is the
masses,John Seale and Don Veitch call the masses in Australia as having a beer
and prizes mentality,in Australia politically the use the "KISS principle"
Keep It Simple Stupid,it re-enforces onething our message to mainsteam
needs to be simple and in a clear language.
We need to open up decussion out the communities
about us.
I live in a mine town where people have fairly high
incomes,the mine in the next few years is going to under go a 10 Billion dollars
Australian expansion,there is no real unemployment,and it a town of a high
turnover of people,it's a hard community to establish a group,but l am working
on setting up a group called Roxby Downs Community Voice so it is non
political,and a peoples lobby group.
Cheers Martin Jackson
----- Original Message -----
To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 2:50
PM
Subject: [WDDM] New Cyber Tools
Hi all Democrats,
There are "no rules" in what works and doesn't, as we
are experimenting. Presently the US Democrat party is inviting members
to make a website on their server free, blog, and access to
political information (unbiased). http://www.democrats.org/page/content/partybuilder/
This is an opportunity for fellow citizens to gather
and discuss issues and you decide your own decision. Not necessarily agreeing
with the "party" but perhaps influencing the "party".
There are many of these type programs developing.
What Pras is intending is also that type of site. It would provide a place to
discuss, bring forth issues etc. Now with Video and Pods, we need to use all
this new media to "carry the message" (in forms people will use).
These sites are NOT run as government, with "DD etc.
These sites must be economically stable to continue on and are of a business
structure. Sure, they may be non-profit, but they must have huge financial
support to continue.
So, I suggest we develop different "topics". One of
course would be DD, another how to bring DD information to the people? What is
needed to keep pace with the continuously improving Cyber World? What new type
Sites would be useful? What is needed to develop initiatives, bring them to
the people so petitions can be approved, finally discussing these issues for
the Binding Referendum?
This has been a problem with WDDM. WDDM is an
organization which must have a business structure. It's purpose may be to
provide DD information to the people but WDDM is in no way a government body
and thus should not be structured as a government body. Sure, some aspects of
DD work with the needed structure but to tie your hands before you start is
not a good thing.
So lets USE all these new tools instead of booting
everything out before it even starts. If they are no good, they will
fail.
Bruce Eggum
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USA
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