I presume the point here is trying to answer the question “How do I get my ideas accepted to the point of action?”

Behind this question is motive. Is the action to benefit an individual, a group, or a community?

People are motivated by a range of influences and the marketing types among us study many of these. Getting a large group of people to work on a project may be done in various ways, but in the end, people do things for people. The project idea appeals to their reason, but volunteer work requires passion which appeals to their emotions. The problem with most blogs - I know nothing about blogs - it seems to me, is the unidirectional aspect of a blog. Because the participants cannot feel personally as part of the idea, the less rational participants - most of us - don’t participate. Each person has 24 hours in their day. In this we are all equal.

The missing element is getting personal. Without the personal element the human voluntary resources needed for any project will be limited. I suppose that politicians would call this “grass roots.”

Richard J. Nelson