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----- Featured Action of the Week -----
Third Week of April, 2002
Card sharp
Thomas Edison once said that his inventive genius consisted of 1%
inspiration and 99% perspiration. Good communications has a similar trait.
It's 1% presentation and 99% content. If you don't have something important
to say, dressing it up to make it pretty won't make it more important.
That dictum, however, is deceptive. It is also true that if the 1% isn't
well done, nobody will ever get around to examining the 99%. It takes good
presentation to get your audience's attention. If you can't do that, it
doesn't matter how important your message is, because no one will bother to
listen to it.
Chris Whitten is great at presentation. If that name sounds familiar, it's
because Chris is the guy who founded a little web site called
Free-Market.Com in 1995. That site eventually became Free-Market.Net. Chris
knows quite a bit about both presentation and content. He knows a lot about
what's *interesting*. And, once
again, he's out there making interesting and useful stuff available to the
people who need it.
One of the tools that Chris has created is a nifty set of "virtual
e-cards," and this week's action is pretty simple: send a few. They're
free, and they are certainly a fine implementation of the "1%" referred to
above. They feature a selection of liberty-oriented images to choose from,
and you also choose an historic stamp (or, in typical Chris fashion, an Ayn
Rand stamp) to affix to the "flip side" of the "card."
Do you have a meeting of your local libertarian discussion club coming up?
Have you published a new article that you'd like to call attention to? If
you're running for office, do you need a really neat way to get the
attention of potential supporters or contributors? Chances are that in any
given week, you've got something to communicate. Communicate it with one of
our e-cards. If you really don't think you have anything to say, then just
send cards to ten of your friends telling them how much you like
Free-Market.Net.
While you're at it, drop by Chris's new site, FoundingFathers.info. You'll
find a great deal of useful information -- a directory of quotes from the
Founders, the complete text of the Federalist Papers, a buyer's guide to
books, movies and early American collectibles, and so forth. If your
interests run to other subjects, drop by Interesting.com to see what else
Chris is up to.
Free-Market.Net's virtual e-cards:
http://www.free-market.net/cgi/card.cgi
FoundingFathers.info
http://www.free-market.net/rd/4425785.html
Interesting.com
http://www.interesting.com/
Action of the Week archive:
http://www.free-market.net/features/list-archives/activism/maillist.html
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