Folks:<br>Here is yet another New Mexico issues-centric communications tool that we might want to connect with to leverage our position.<br><br>-tj<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Alicia Lueras Maldonado</b> <<a href="mailto:ClearlyNewMexico@gmail.com">ClearlyNewMexico@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 9:32 AM<br>Subject: Thanks for your participation! Tremendous response!<br>
To: Tom Johnson <<a href="mailto:tom@jtjohnson.com">tom@jtjohnson.com</a>><br><br><br>
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<td><br><p><font size="2">Dear Tom,</font><br></p><p><font size="2"><b>Thank you for participating in the Clearly New Mexico issues survey.</b><br><br>The response has far exceeded our most optimistic projections! As you know, it was an extensive questionnaire. Yet as of this morning, <u>1,319 folks from all across New Mexico had donated their time to take the survey</u>.<br>
<br>We at ClearlyNewMexico.com will use this information to make our website a better, more effective tool for issue advocacy and on-line organizing.<br><br><b>These are <span style="text-decoration: underline;">your</span> tools</b><br>
<br>ClearlyNewMexico.com provides you with easy-to-use tools - tools that enable you to start organizing on-line. </font></p><p><font size="2"><b>It's called "the netroots" and you're part of it!</b><br>
<br>What tools does ClearlyNewMexico.com provide? Come to the website and you can:<br><br>... start <b>your own blog.</b><br><br>... join the conversation by <b>adding a comment to a blog</b>.<br><br>... start <b>your own on-line discussion group</b> of like-minded folks around an issue or topic of your choosing.<br>
<br>... <b>contact your legislator</b> with the email tool.<br><br>... write an <b>on-line letter-to-the-editor</b> to your local newspaper. <br><br>... use our <b>on-line events calendar</b> to announce and publicize your own meet-ups, rallies or press conferences.<br>
<br><br><b>Ordinary Tools, Extraordinary Effects</b><br> <br>Across the nation, some important fights for change have been won by the netroots. It's only just beginning.<br><br>I love this quote from Clay Shirky's book, <i>Here Comes Everybody - The Power of Organizing without Organizations.</i> </font></p>
<blockquote><b><i><font size="2">Social (networking) tools don't create collective action - they merely remove the obstacles to it.</font></i></b><br></blockquote><p><font size="2"><br>So if you haven't already signed up on the ClearlyNewMexico network, <u>there's no time like right now!</u><br>
<br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Here's the </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://clearlynewmexico.com/page/m/579e775ecde4268e/RpO9ff/VEsH/" target="_blank">link</a></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">.</span> </font></p>
<p><font size="2"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">And if you have already set up an account</span>, please let your friends know about ClearlyNM and the growing power of the netroots in New Mexico.<br><br><b>It's time to get CONNECTED and start ORGANIZING! </b><br>
<br>Sincerely,<br>Alicia Lueras Maldonado<br>and the Clearly New Mexico staff</font><br></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://clearlynewmexico.com/page/m/579e775ecde4268e/abvJ8o/VEsE/" target="_blank"><font size="2">ClearlyNewMexico.com</font></a></p>
<p> </p><p><font size="1"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Clearly New Mexico</span> is working to advance socially responsible public policies in New Mexico. We believe that a stronger democracy is the best path to addressing the challenges facing our state and our nation. </span></font></p>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>==========================================<br>J. T. Johnson<br>Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA<br><a href="http://www.analyticjournalism.com">www.analyticjournalism.com</a><br>
505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h)<br><a href="http://www.jtjohnson.com">http://www.jtjohnson.com</a> <a href="mailto:tom@jtjohnson.com">tom@jtjohnson.com</a><br><br>"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.<br>
To change something, build a new model that makes the<br>existing model obsolete."<br>-- Buckminster Fuller<br>==========================================