Hi all, I have been doing some research and taking in the suggestions from everyone so far, I am thinking that we should all probably have a zoom meeting soon to discuss some of these issues in this thread, or I can Phone everyone individually? I will try and come into the Monday meeting @Vee if you can get me a link and time?
@Vee Violet and @Marco-4-Planet-Earth Marco I have read your comments above and what you are after can be done for you, I can’t get it done under a “best practices” scenario by then, but I could get you this functionality in a way that gets the job done, I am just a little apprehensive about not doing this the “best practices” way and offending anyone…
I thought I’d post a few links here to support the ways in which pledges work, A pledge is a “temporal landmark”, ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23066883/) to use one effectively, follow these suggestions based on feedback from trials (online pledges):
https://challenges.openideo.com/challenge/recycle-challenge/research/making-it-stick-using-online-pledges-to-sustain-behaviour-changes
Do Pledges work?
A pledge can be a temporal landmark that spurs goal initiation when we signal the pledge action triggers a “new beginning”. (Our relationship to our government?, a new action-based self?). Creating and emphasizing a temporal landmark marking the beginning of a new time period increases people’s intentions to initiate goal pursuit. In addition, people’s strengthened motivation to begin pursuing their aspirations following such temporal landmarks originates in part from the psychological disassociation these landmarks induce from a person’s past, imperfect self.
I think the pledge itself is a temporal landmark, as is the final massive third wave of action we are building up to. I like the concept of “Strength in numbers, mass participation civil disobedience works, this changes everything!” to emphasize the size of this temporal landmark in all of our lives.
ALSO
After talking with Hugh we discussed failings with using Action Network for this purpose (lives on US server (bad 5 eyes), clause in XR contract to not use for illegal stuff or whole account is terminated) - an option was to use AN for forms and database but NOT for communicating the emails with content discussing breaking the law, use another mail app (mailtrain?). Also we discussed using a wordpress as a CMS and finding someone to “lock down the installation” - XR UK uses wordpress for main site…
Alternatively I suggested using something similar to what I have implemented using [ wordpress / wpforms / mailchimp ] by using inhouse installations of [ Craft CMS / Limesurvey / Mailtrain ].
Alternatively I remain completely open to hearing suggestions from anyone else of a suitable platform to do this on?