[sustran] Re: Harnessing the collective creativity of our readers u

Pascal van den Noort operations at velomondial.net
Wed May 22 19:32:42 JST 2013


Just back from away; will get back to you on this.


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On 19 mei 2013, at 19:39, eric britton <eric.britton at ecoplan.org> wrote:

> 
> My name is Eric Britton. I am founding editor of World Streets and write you
> this morning, among a certain number of contacts and friends,  to ask your
> advice about how to finance World Streets <http://worldstreets.org/> .  It's
> proving a tough nut to crack. 
> Just yesterday  I posted an nth call for support on World Streets at
> http://wp.me/psKUY-38X.  Reasonable idea perhaps, but since we first went to
> press in 2009 hard experience has repeatedly shown that it makes close to
> zero sense to go to the 5,725 people signed-in to one or more of the various
> World Streets programs and ask them, hat in hand, for financial support.
> Too bad but that's not the way our 21st century media and relationships
> work. No matter how much goodwill they may show in reading our
> contributions, asking them for financial support just doesn't work, other
> than in a few exceptional generous cases. In monetary policy we call this
> kind of approach "pushing on a string". So at one point we have to give it
> up and try something else. Here is the core of the dilemma.
> Today the cost of bringing you World Streets is beyond what I am able to
> cover with my advisory and consulting work <http://consult.newmobility.org/>
> . I have thought hard about different ways to finance our activities, with
> little success so far. So now I would now like to stand back to see if we
> can harness the collective creativity of our readership to find a solution,
> together. 
> What to do in the face of all that does not work? What should be that other
> approach we should be taking?  Truly, I do not want to go for advertising on
> the site or any form of obligation to a single sponsor that would compromise
> our total independence, since that is not in line with the ethics, the goal
> of World Streets. We are working to make the world a better place, not to
> give companies more advertising opportunities - they have enough of those.
> So that's it. I need your advice and am asking for it.  If you or any of
> your friends or colleagues have leads or clues for us it would be very good
> to hear them.  Our "suggestion box" is the World Streets Comment
> <http://wp.me/psKUY-38X>  button that you can click to here
> <http://wp.me/psKUY-38X> . Otherwise email <mailto:eric.britton at ecoplan.org>
> , phone and Skye (see below) work just fine.
> Thank you,
> Eric Britton  
> PS. And if, despite it all, you still have the  urge to make that donation,
> well you can click to  <http://wp.me/psKUY-38X> http://wp.me/psKUY-38X and
> there you are. And if you want to know why this could be a good idea, you
> will see some words on that on the site as well as a few words on our
> program on the following page.  World Streets! It's a necessary experiment. 
> ____________________________________________________________________________
> _____________________
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> S. newmobility
> 
> 30 Great Reasons to Get Behind World Streets
> Putting World Streets to work:
> 1.      World Streets on Word Press
> <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/about/mission/> 
> 2.      World Streets on Facebook
> <http://www.facebook.com/WorldStreetsOnline> 
> 3.      Wor <http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=668837> ld
> Streets on LinkedIn
> 4.      Wor <http://twitter.com/#%21/worldstreets> ld Streets on Twitter
> 5.      Wor
> <https://plus.google.com/u/0/circles/world-streets-p75af59b0e2dfee4> ld
> Streets on Google+
> 6.      The Wor <http://www.scribd.com/my_document_collections/2948834> ld
> Streets reading room
> 
> Our consulting arm: 
> 7.      New Mobility Consult <http://consult.newmobility.org/>  
> 
> Our other collaborative New Mobility projects
> 8.      The Equity Initiative <http://equityt.org/> 
> 9.      Sustainability Master Classes
> <http://sustainabiltyseminar.wordpress.com/> 
> 10.   Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice
> <http://www.ecoplan.org/wtpp/wtj_index.htm> 
> 11.   Nuova Mobilita (Italy) <http://nuovamobilita.wordpress.com> 
> 12.   New Mobility Agenda <http://newmobility.org> 
> 13.   The Streets of India  <http://indiastreets.wordpress.com> 
> 14.   Safe Streets Challenge <http://safestreetstrategies.wordpress.com/> 
> 15.   Nova Mobilidade <http://novamobilidade.wordpress.com> 
> 
> The ring of social media projects which support each of these
> 16.   New Mobility Agenda <http://novamobilidade.wordpress.com>  
> 17.   Sustainability Master Classes
> <http://www.facebook.com/SDES.MasterClass> 
> 18.   xCar Futures/World Carshare Consortium
> <http://www.facebook.com/groups/worldcarshare/> 
> 19.   World City Bike Forum <http://www.facebook.com/groups/worldcitybike/> 
> 20.   The Equity Initiative <http://www.facebook.com/EquityTransport> 
> 21.   World Transport Policy and Practice
> <http://www.facebook.com/groups/worldstransport/> 
> 22.   Zetabytes/Open Systems
> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/ZetabytesOpen-Systems/487950324572454> 
> 23.   Accès Universel
> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Acc%C3%A8s-Universel/255558941213357> 
> 24.   Safe Streets Challenge <http://www.facebook.com/SafeStreetStrategies/>
> 
> 25.   Streets of India <http://www.facebook.com/IndiaStreets> 
> 26.   Nuova Moblita (Italy) <http://www.facebook.com/NuoMob> 
> 27.   Nova Mobilidade <http://www.facebook.com/NovaMobilidade> 
> 28.   Thinking about Africa
> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thinking-about-Africa-Transport-Equity/183396
> 531766673s> 
> 29.   Thinking about China
> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thinking-About-ChinaTransport-Equity/33243283
> 0112751> 
> 30.   And just in case you forgot, the venerable and ever-useful Worst
> Practices Junkyard <http://www.facebook.com/groups/worstpractices/>  
> 
> If you know this you know what we do, so we rest our case.
> 
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