Operation Education - 6/2/08: Status, Results and Vision

[nelsonwinters]

First of all, thank you for all the support! It's been several days
since Operation Education was announced:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=140305

and we wanted to give an update on everything that's been going on so far.


STATUS
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We have raised $250 in donations! Thanks to everyone that has been
able to donate so far.

We ran our first campaign using our new system. We are paying $1.10
to 50 people to watch "Money as Debt" and fill out the survey
afterwards, as well as a $5 bonus to the person that gives what we
feel is the best review of the movie. At the time of this writing 46
people have watched the video and completed the questionaire. There
has been 18 referrals sent out and no additional contributions made.


RESULTS
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Here's what everyone wants to see. I was going to summarize, but I'll
just let you determine whether some seeds of truth are being planted.

http://www.operationeducation.org/reports/rptResponses.cfm

http://www.operationeducation.org/reports/map.cfm


MARCHING ONWARD
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- More education campaigns will be posted within the next couple days.
- More reports will be added as well as an RSS feed to the responses.
- Streamline the the process of creating new education campaigns


FUTURE PLANS
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Looking to the future, two areas we are focusing on going forward is

1. Expanding beyond people that participate in Amazon's Mechanical
Turk system. MTurk.com has been an awesome resource to get our idea
off the ground, but will not be suitable as we wish to reach more
people and targeted groups of people.

2. Decentralization: Enable any person or group to manage their own
education campaigns including the posting, marketing, reviewing, and
funding of the campaign.


DONATIONS
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We encourage everyone to consider making a donation using our ChipIn
located at http://www.OperationEducation.org. All donations go
toward paying people to participate in the education campaigns. All costs
related to the development and hosting of the site are paid for by us... not
the donations. We are not registered as a non-profit organization since we
do not have the money to pay lawyers to set this up for us.


As always, please contact us at info@OperationEducation.org if you
have any questions, ideas or concerns.

In Liberty,

Jamie Lar
Nelson Winters


"Only the educated are free" --Epictetus

[pinkmandy]

1. Expanding beyond people that participate in Amazon's Mechanical
Turk system. MTurk.com has been an awesome resource to get our idea
off the ground, but will not be suitable as we wish to reach more
people and targeted groups of people.


The sooner that is done the sooner we can all help spread your site and more will probably donate. You could even set up referral links and give a prize to the person who refers the most viewers who fill out the survey.

This is very similar to the lottery idea that was tossed around a few months ago. I think it's an excellent idea. Money motivates people.

[rpfan2008]

bumpo

[raystone]

bump

[raystone]

How about adding operationeducation chipin on main RPF page ? To make room, (active) Operationeducation could replace (non active) freedomsground chipin

Freedomsground hasn't updated their home page for about 2 months, and haven't had a donation for about 30 days

[rpfan2008]

How about adding operationeducation chipin on main RPF page ? To make room, (active) Operationeducation could replace (non active) freedomsground chipin

Freedomsground hasn't updated their home page for about 2 months, and haven't had a donation for about 30 days

very trutho
bumpo

[nelsonwinters]

How about adding operationeducation chipin on main RPF page ?

Of course I think this is a great idea. :)

Just curious, who is in charge of the site here?