[1st-mile-nm] Our interests and collaboration with "Clearly New Mexico"

[Tom Johnson]

Folks:
Here is yet another New Mexico issues-centric communications tool that we
might want to connect with to leverage our position.

-tj

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Alicia Lueras Maldonado <ClearlyNewMexico at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 9:32 AM
Subject: Thanks for your participation! Tremendous response!
To: Tom Johnson <tom at jtjohnson.com>



Dear Tom,

*Thank you for participating in the Clearly New Mexico issues survey.*

The response has far exceeded our most optimistic projections!  As you know,
it was an extensive questionnaire.  Yet as of this morning, *1,319 folks
from all across New Mexico had donated their time to take the survey*.

We at ClearlyNewMexico.com will use this information to make our website a
better, more effective tool for issue advocacy and on-line organizing.

*These are your tools*

ClearlyNewMexico.com provides you with easy-to-use tools - tools that enable
you to start organizing on-line.

*It's called "the netroots" and you're part of it!*

What tools does ClearlyNewMexico.com provide?  Come to the website and you
can:

... start *your own blog.*

... join the conversation by *adding a comment to a blog*.

... start *your own on-line discussion group* of like-minded folks around an
issue or topic of your choosing.

... *contact your legislator* with the email tool.

... write an *on-line letter-to-the-editor* to your local newspaper.

... use our *on-line events calendar* to announce and publicize your own
meet-ups, rallies or press conferences.


*Ordinary Tools, Extraordinary Effects*

Across the nation, some important fights for change have been won by the
netroots.  It's only just beginning.

I love this quote from Clay Shirky's book, *Here Comes Everybody - The Power
of Organizing without Organizations.*

*Social (networking) tools don't create collective action - they merely
remove the obstacles to it.*


So if you haven't already signed up on the ClearlyNewMexico network, *there's
no time like right now!*

Here's the *link<http://clearlynewmexico.com/page/m/579e775ecde4268e/RpO9ff/VEsH/>
*.

And if you have already set up an account, please let your friends know
about ClearlyNM and the growing power of the netroots in New Mexico.

*It's time to get CONNECTED and start ORGANIZING! *

Sincerely,
Alicia Lueras Maldonado
and the Clearly New Mexico staff



ClearlyNewMexico.com<http://clearlynewmexico.com/page/m/579e775ecde4268e/abvJ8o/VEsE/>



Clearly New Mexico 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.


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J. T. Johnson
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existing model obsolete."
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