On 2009-01-06, at 24:31-0800, Victor Jockin wrote:
I agree with David, but it's also noteworthy how few votes there
are in general at this point. Supposedly the Facebook pro-metric
group has nearly 11,000 members (though most are not actively
participating). The leading idea on change.org has fewer than 3000
votes. So that's a reason to keep trying to recruit our supporters.
Unfortunately, once your group gets above 1,000 Facebook stops
letting you send out email to the group (or so Mike tells me, I
asked him about it for exactly this reason).
Yes, if we could contact them all then we'd probably roll straight
over the top on change.org.
Another thing I notice is that there are some strange items near
the top representing very specialized interests (raw milk, hand-
made toys). These people may be at organizations where they can
muster a few hundred votes with an e-mail blast. So the process is
probably not a good index of public opinion.
Email everyone you know, there's a form letter in the mail I sent
earlier as well as other ideas for keeping up visibility (things
like setting your IM status and Facebook status do make a difference).
Paul
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Make measurement make sense.
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