If you're familiar with the Raleigh School Board and their new resegregationist members, this post will make sense to you.
If you're not, you may still get something out of it but, despite the fact that lots of people are working on this issue, I don't even have a website to send you to for more information.* There probably is something out there but the newsletter I currently receive doesn't even identify the organization with which it's associated!
Raleigh, what's up?!?
There is an NAACP meeting tonight that looks worth attending. Here's what I received:
"The NAACP will hold a meeting this Sunday at 5:00 PM at the Martin St. Baptist Church, 1001 E. Martin St., Raleigh. The meeting is titled "WE WILL NEVER GO BACK" and the subject is "What is the nature of the threat of re-segregation raised by 5 out of 9 Wake School Board members? Developing Coordinated Actions.""
I'd send you to the NAACP website but, though the national site does list the local organizations, the only listed website is incredibly out-of-date and neglected.
Now, this is the kind of thing I could be helping folks with, not so much building full-fledged websites, but helping put together simple web tools that can provide the core web communication that this campaign lacks.
Unfortunately I'm not going to be doing that anytime soon because it's 2010 and I need real work that pays a real wage and I'm not going to make that happen without stepping back from things that aren't crucial to my survival.
This deeply frustrates me because if folks had told me what was up before the election, I could have helped a lot in different ways including setting up web outlets for information that wouldn't require ongoing tech skills. And we could have worked a lot more efficiently before the election. The game now is much tougher.
It's doubly weird that a man without children who has no plans on having any is my key source of information on the ground. None of the parents I know mentioned any of this until after the fact and then they just sat around and sadly shook their heads!
For the record I have been talking to folks to see where they're at and gathering information, which is more of a starting point than a course of action. And I also recently spoke at a School Board meeting on the effects of resegregation on Raleigh's brand.
I may try to start doing some things here or elsewhere as a minor media intervention but this campaign needs much more and, though I see the forces building on the ground, their apparent overreliance on old media is really holding them back.
And the fact that nobody really needs me or any other mildly technical human to set up a strong web presence just heightens that absence.
If you're not, you may still get something out of it but, despite the fact that lots of people are working on this issue, I don't even have a website to send you to for more information.* There probably is something out there but the newsletter I currently receive doesn't even identify the organization with which it's associated!
Raleigh, what's up?!?
There is an NAACP meeting tonight that looks worth attending. Here's what I received:
"The NAACP will hold a meeting this Sunday at 5:00 PM at the Martin St. Baptist Church, 1001 E. Martin St., Raleigh. The meeting is titled "WE WILL NEVER GO BACK" and the subject is "What is the nature of the threat of re-segregation raised by 5 out of 9 Wake School Board members? Developing Coordinated Actions.""
I'd send you to the NAACP website but, though the national site does list the local organizations, the only listed website is incredibly out-of-date and neglected.
Now, this is the kind of thing I could be helping folks with, not so much building full-fledged websites, but helping put together simple web tools that can provide the core web communication that this campaign lacks.
Unfortunately I'm not going to be doing that anytime soon because it's 2010 and I need real work that pays a real wage and I'm not going to make that happen without stepping back from things that aren't crucial to my survival.
This deeply frustrates me because if folks had told me what was up before the election, I could have helped a lot in different ways including setting up web outlets for information that wouldn't require ongoing tech skills. And we could have worked a lot more efficiently before the election. The game now is much tougher.
It's doubly weird that a man without children who has no plans on having any is my key source of information on the ground. None of the parents I know mentioned any of this until after the fact and then they just sat around and sadly shook their heads!
For the record I have been talking to folks to see where they're at and gathering information, which is more of a starting point than a course of action. And I also recently spoke at a School Board meeting on the effects of resegregation on Raleigh's brand.
I may try to start doing some things here or elsewhere as a minor media intervention but this campaign needs much more and, though I see the forces building on the ground, their apparent overreliance on old media is really holding them back.
And the fact that nobody really needs me or any other mildly technical human to set up a strong web presence just heightens that absence.
Note: If you do have a related website up, hit me up for help with Search Engine Optimization and other ways of getting your site seen. I've had a lot of success, especially with Google, though you can't tell from this blog! I've never really put in the work here that's necessary for people to easily find me but if you need some evidence, I can send you a list of terms for which many of my other sites have had top listings for a number of years on Google.
*Note 2: I realize there are lots of individual articles and blog posts and so forth out there but which should I send folks to? We need some basic information resources and a consistent spot for gathering links to all these dispersed bits and pieces that are so easily lost online.
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