Growing Democrats for Progess

[NJMaverick]

Greetings everyone and welcome to the ground floor of what hopes to be a positive force for change. To affect greater change we will need to grow our venture. I think this website has some unique offerings. First off it's one of the few sights that is pro Democratic rather than claiming to be pro liberal. Secondly the blog writers here are all first rate and produce some wonderful work. Finally we are very rare in that we are not for profit and do this for love of our fellow being and just to do the right thing. No one is profiting from this website, in fact just the opposite it's a money losing venture.

So how to grow it?

That is something we can all help do. Post links to the great blog articles on others liberals blog and message boards. Make sure that pro Democratic liberals are aware of our existence.

Contribute articles to the blog and threads and posts to the forums. This is a new venture and until things are established the message boards will need a little TLC.

Tell your friends both online and real life about us.

If we all pitch in, this little acorn of a website can grow into a mighty oak.

[Cha]

A timely post, Maverick, I have been thinking about the same thing. We have such an amazing Democratic board here but more peeps would only enhance it.

And, what a goal we have..besides our Mission Statement we are in the business of helping to get President Barack Obama re-elected in 2012 with FACTS! Wild Concept!

[CraigGrant]

Well said and I can tell you Jeff is very helpful if anyone needs help in getting a post 'blog ready'.

[Cha]

I was thinking about this while I was out running..

"No one is profiting from this website, in fact just the opposite it's a money losing venture."

Why don't we have a private little intimate fundraiser for the Founders and see if we can break a certain someone even?

I haven't donated to anything in awhile and I don't do it that much except to a worthy cause and this definitely comes under that column.

[RoyGBiv]

(01-14-2011 09:44 PM)Cha Wrote:  Why don't we have a private little intimate fundraiser for the Founders and see if we can break a certain someone even?

I'm going to respond to this because I don't think Mav will.

A lot of you have praised and thanked me, TINS, Craig, azmouse, and Treestar for what we've done to put this forum together. Well, okay, we appreciate that. We have actually put a lot of work into this, along with people like JeffR, Joan, Nance, Cha, KonaKane, Willinois, and a number of others.

But beyond all of that, the only person who has put a financial interest in this is NJMaverick. He bought the URL and the server space, and then he turned it over to all of us to screw up or, hopefully, turn into something worthwhile.

And he should be thanked for it in the highest terms possible.

Accepting donations, though, requires another level of involvement altogether. There are legalities involved in this that make it a less than a simple question. For example, we have RSS feeds on the blog's home page. They are licensed to be there based on our "non-commercial" status. If we accept donations, are we still non-commercial? The problem here is that it would take lawyers to figure that out, and we can't afford lawyers. We'd have to have a fund-raiser just for lawyers so that we could accept donations. That's absurd considering what we are.

Some of you may be saying, "Hey, I go to this or that blog, and they don't worry about this," and you would be correct. They don't. And they may not ever have to worry about infringing on copyrights or whatever, but we're holding ourselves to a higher standard. We want to avoid as much as possible anyone even having a marginal case against what we do here.

NJMaverick is ultimately the one who will have to answer this question, but I wanted to offer a little commentary on it since we've just avoided it before. We all owe a lot to Mav, and we should respect the fact he has essentially turned over ownership of this forum to the people who populate it. Most people wouldn't do that.

[Hekate]

Just wanted to add: The front page tonight is wonderful. It really shouts out that DFP is a going concern.

[NJMaverick]

We need posters more than money

[pappy]

(01-18-2011 06:34 AM)NJMaverick Wrote:  We need posters more than money

Everyone here posts at other websites and blogs.

Something as simple as quoting from the blogs or forums here (with links) on those other sites could go a long way towards driving traffic. I would encourage all members here to use DFP as a source when posting elsewhere.

The WH Blog that is available here would be a good resource for answering difficult arguments elsewhere and then instead of linking them back to the White House link back to here. Interested readers come here to see the source material and some number will browse around and become new members.

[Cha]

Thanks for the explanation on the donating, RoyG, and I certainly hear that we need posters, Maverick, and do believe that they will be forth coming in the weeks, months, and years ahead. We are having growing pains..OUCH!