Online Causes – how effective are they?

I have often wondered how effective email campaigns and petitions for worthy causes are. As a card carrying member of several, it is not unusual for me to receive half a dozen pleas on any particular day urging support for a pressing  purpose. Today, at the urging of AVAAZ, I made a submission to theContinue reading “Online Causes – how effective are they?”

Manipulating online causes

As someone who occasionally responds to on-line causes, I was arrested by this article:  Uprooting fake online activism – Eureka Street. It reminded me of how grateful I am that suspicion is an inherent part of my nature. When someone asks something of me, my internal radar goes into overdrive. Up goes the antennae, thenContinue reading “Manipulating online causes”