Community | September 15, 2009 | 4 comments

Learning about internet petitions - is that effective?

source: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp

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stopnoise
Even well-addressed, well-thought-out petitions have their problems, chief among them the lack of a guarantee that anyone is collecting and collating the signatures or will deliver the completed documents to the right parties. The mere existence of a petition doesn't warrant that anyone will do anything with it once it is completed.
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    Community,   Petition,   Public Integrity,   Assessing Time and Projects
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    Public Action Issue,  Petitions
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4 comments // Learning about internet petitions - is that effective?

  • jubal
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      jubal  

    • I think it is important to be selective of what petitions we sign. I don't blindly sign every petition anymore. I research the people and organization before I will affix my name to one.

    • 2 years ago
  • SeaJade
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      SeaJade  

    • Hi again stopnoise, undoubtedly there are some online petitions that don't get to where they are supposed to and are fraudulent. I always wonder about the ones that come in where you have to sign, cut and paste, and if you are the 500th person to start a new one (those have never worked for me), but also remember there are many wonderful organizations out there that do do a good job and report back on how their petitions have gone. On a personal level I am not offended if an extra link comes up asking for a donation, I don't have cash flow presently to give out money anyway, but if I feel (not that I am right all the time) an organization is doing a good job (NRDC, Environment California, RAN, PAN so many more, the Earth Justice one I posted yesterday also has a direct link to post to current now) I will sign and share, and where I can, donate my time and work instead (which has often been more valuable than the money I might have donated....). Fund raising for non profits is very difficult in today's world and I am always grateful when a group of people get together and do what I am not doing - like everything else in our world, personal discretion and resonance with a cause is important... but don't throw out the baby with the bath water....

    • 2 years ago
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  

    • Some of them do collect and collate signature, print them and deliver them - avaaz.org comes to mind, as well as MediaMatters.org.

    • 2 years ago
  • stopnoise
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      stopnoise  

    • I have been working for a lot of non-profits and so called nobel causes this past Year. None of these have ever contact me or ever place a pledge to help my cause that is by the way one of the most real causes around here. So after a Year of work, I am evaluating and assessing everyone and everything according with their own reply.

      "Many times the truth it is hard to take but is the best remedy to cure foolishness." - stopnoise

    • 2 years ago
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