More strategy, please
Will o' the Wisp | 01.05.2009 22:32 | Indymedia
Under the different categories Indymedia allows as tagging, the tag for "strategy" is nowhere to be found. How can this be, for an activist and independent media source? We need analysis and strategy, campaigns and long-term debates.
Can the IMCers please consider adding an additional category to the tagging options: "strategy".
This tag would describe posts that consider long range thinking, tactics and performance. Might this even invite more posts that are forward looking and that generate solutions and viable alternatives to the current status quo, rather than criticism of the prevailing influences.
I suggest such a categorisation of tagging be called "Strategy".
Anyone support this suggestion?
This tag would describe posts that consider long range thinking, tactics and performance. Might this even invite more posts that are forward looking and that generate solutions and viable alternatives to the current status quo, rather than criticism of the prevailing influences.
I suggest such a categorisation of tagging be called "Strategy".
Anyone support this suggestion?
Will o' the Wisp
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What?!
01.05.2009 22:55
Oh, yes, let's have some blue-sky thinking, naval gazing and wringing of the corporate tea towel...
stargazer
Fair comment
02.05.2009 00:51
So far on Indymedia there is nothing that supports this kind of thinking, so the basic idea sounds fair enough.
Cassidy
and please...
02.05.2009 01:48
But i do like the idea of the new catagory. Might make campaigns less insular. Does, however, provide a one-stop-shop insight into how we develop ideas to our foes. So maybe not such a good idea?
Thoughts?
oogler
interesting idea
02.05.2009 10:54
a) Why not do this on somewhere like LibCom?
b) What is to stop this being trolled to death?
If we, for instance, think about the whole violence/non-violence debate, then how is that going to progress, consensus reached and so on. Without some sort of proper process the debate will most likely be destroyed or be reduced to several people who will never agree bickering constantly with each other.
More useful would be a sort of zine approach with different positions clearly and thoughtfully laid out without personal snipping at each other and a tacit agreement that it is okay to disagree with each other.
Salmon