Online Activism
Activist Websites: Do we rank?
Submitted by akreider on Fri, 11/12/2004 - 02:14.I believe that this website is "on to something". I think it's going to be incredibly successful and rank amongst the top (english speaking) activist websites.
Sometimes it's good to check-in and compare this ambition to reality.
October 2004 - we got 88,000 unique visiters, and 123,000 visits (excluding search engine robots). This statistic comes from Awstats (a free log analyzer).
Idealist.org claims 729,000 visits in the last month. This number should be compared to our 123,000 figure. So we get about 1/6 of the traffic they get.
Zmag.org claims roughly half a million visitors per month. This compares to our 88,000 figure - so again we're getting around 1/6 of the action.
Share This Database
Submitted by akreider on Tue, 08/31/2004 - 23:08.Would you like to be able to do all of the things you can do with CampusActivism.org on your *own* website?
I
Use this Online Activism Toolset to Stop a US Occupation of Iran: A Story
Submitted by akreider on Mon, 08/16/2004 - 00:40.Imagine. It is spring 2005 and Bush has been re-elected. The Bush Administration escalates its public relations war on Iran arguing that Iran is supporting the Iraqi resistance, encouraging Islamic fundamentalism, a general threat to democracy in the area, researching and building weapons of massive destruction, and violating the human rights of its people.
The Bush Administration is preparing to go to war against Iran and you want to stop it. What should you do?
Fortunately you know about this online activism system that will help you.
(Note: in general most of the things below are possible. Some things are
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CampusActivism.org - Customize it for your Campaign, Issue, or Network
Submitted by akreider on Sun, 07/18/2004 - 23:46.Currently this website provides many powerful tools that you can use to promote a campaign, issue or network.
For instance, when you start a campaign, issue or network you get your own webpage. However the issue pages aren't controlled by anyone, and really you don't have much control over the page of campaign or network.
So we're going to change this by giving you a webpage that is part of the CampusActivism.org system, but is one that you can make your own.
You will be able to
Where is the Grassroots in Online Activism?
Submitted by akreider on Sat, 07/17/2004 - 23:20.Is Online Activism
Where is the grassroots participation in these projects? Indymedia is the only place with a significant level of mass participation, and even there very few people actually write news stories to say nothing of taking pictures or uploading audio or video. When many people start participating, Indymedia gets overloaded with material that most people don't want to read, and you need to start moderating content.
Action Alerts for the Masses
Submitted by akreider on Sat, 07/17/2004 - 17:27.If you are an activist who uses email, you are probably overloaded with Action Alerts.
You know you should be calling and writing Congress, but you also have a sneaking doubt that it just isn't worth your time.
I think you are right. I think national action alerts are rapidly losing their effectiveness as people are bombarded by 101 appeals, and email and email petitions are practically useless.
Fortunately, I believe we can resurrect Action Alerts by creating a grassroots system that focuses on local targets. By targeting people who are not used to being targeted, a small number of emails or calls can make a substantial difference in a local campaign.
