How do You Use the Internet to Promote a Cause?
While this blog is very new and only has a few posts, quite a lot has been happening. We are close to releasing the new website we created for Criminon Rwanda. We’ve been busily working away “behind the scenes” at dozens of details and setups. And it looks like I’ve just inherited my next task, which will be beneficial to those of you who would like to help use the Internet to promote constructive causes.
Before I continue, let me just put a plug in for the field of Internet Marketing. Internet Marketing has been being used for years now, to make people rich very quickly. Some are successful, some aren’t. But the same reasons that the Internet is powerful in making people rich can be even more powerful in making a positive change in the world. And if enough people contribute, the fact is that once it builds up momentum it can go very fast.
The Internet is possibly the most powerful means of spreading ideas and communications that has ever existed on this planet. A simple example is the fact that you can tell 10 friends who tell 10 friends who tell 10 friends who tell 10 friends = 10,000 people contacted – and this can all occur in 10 minutes with no expense involved.
This is how ideas have spread to millions of people in almost no time. Of course, there is a right way and a wrong way to do this effectively, which leads me to my point.
We have been receiving requests for more information on how to use the Internet to support causes and spread ideas. Rather than spend all of my time answering emails and explaining things to individual people. I have made a decision. (By posting this here I am also making a bit of a commitment).
I am going to write an overall tutorial on how to use the Internet to promote causes and spread ideas. This will be in eBook format so that you can download it easily and read it on your computer (in PDF format). I will probably release it in stages so that I can get the first part out to people as quickly as possible. I will write it as simply as possible so that anyone can understand it and implement the techniques. It is actually not all that complicated once you get rolling, and the best part is that you don’t have to spend money or spend a ton of time in order to make a difference.
The eBook(s) will be free for subscribers of this website. If you are subscribed to this site, this simply means that you sign up to receive a notification (ideally by email) whenever I post on the blog. In this way I can nag you keep you updated on new projects, ideas, and information. If you are worried about getting too many emails, all I can say is that I have so much to do I don’t think I will have time to overdo anything. I will post when I have something worthwhile to say.
By forming a group of subscribers we can begin to form a community of like-minded people who can co-ordinate and team up in different humanitarian and non-profit activities around the world. Like I said before, there is much more that can be done but it needs to be implemented. This site serves as a method of informing you when that time comes.
The eBook(s) will probably cover two or three main aspects – how anyone can use the Internet to promote a cause, how bloggers and webmasters can use the Internet to promote a cause, and possibly more advanced methods as well.
Why am I doing this? Well, read the news. Something has to be done about the current state of the world we live in. It might sound trite, but it happens to be true. Many people are working very hard, and doing a lot.
The Internet is a tool that can be used to co-ordinate our efforts, improve teamwork and communication, and make our work hundreds or thousands of times faster and more effective. So lets use it.
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