Hi to each one of you, magic messengers of our time.
Here is Robin, and I have something interesting to tell you.
I am not here just to add up to the ongoing noise.
There is a lot of information to digest and a lot to learn to make this world go where we want it to, and I am indeed aware how each one of you is already doing a great deal to help in this direction.
You have not only been passing critical and hard-to-find information to the friends in your network, but you have also proactively invested your time and best energies to write, explain, summarize and facilitate other people understanding of the issues at stake. Have you not?
I have thought of you, and of specifically the five of you, Emma, Chris, Tjarko, Ivan and Claudio, because I saw firsthand how dedicated and passionate you are to the mission you have chosen to follow. Your integrity and desire to help other by passing on, exposing, and pointing to hard-to-identify alternative resources and solutions is very valuable.
Your stories and your messages are very special to me and the reason that I am writing to you is because I, want to further help and support you in the above efforts.
No, I am not about to make a sale or to suggest you sign up for a new online service.
Sorry, but I am going to disappoint you on this front.
What I want to offer you, is entirely on me. It is part of my unique luggage of communication tools and solutions which is now mature for people like you to use for a Good end. I have started playing with this tool/approach a few years ago (1999), and since then I have much learned and understood how effective and far-reaching can be.
That is why I decided to make this my perfect complement to my "communication agents" efforts. What I mean is that by providing access to this technology and way of communicating and interconnecting with others I realize my need to document and support the actual road to be effective Communication Agents, which is what I offer my readers. So, if I can proof it on real communicators, I have something Good to share and reports to others.
Here is what I have in mind:
I would like to offer a facility, accessible directly from your computer (PC or Mac), that would allow you to publish your ideas, commentary and exposes with complete immediacy and ease of use on the Web. It is a private page you access online with a secure password, and that allows you to write an article or a commentary, with the use of links and images if you need, and to post it online for all to read at the click of your mouse.
No servers to worry about, no FTP, no Geocities or Tripod accounts with ads everywhere, no HTML coding to learn, no design to worry of, N-O-T-H-I-N-G.
No technical issues. You need to worry ONLY about writing about the things you know best. Things that will make your network of readers think, question, and act intelligently to change our present world situation.
I know as a writer, how difficult it is to block or hold an inspiration for a piece, or to maintain the same level of understanding and vision for a complex subject you need to report about. Yes, I take good notes, but the ability to write the article, comment or editorial in the moment that the idea strikes or that you land on the news page that carries a critical story is absolutely invaluable.
Being the publisher of the very rich monthly newsletters (MasterMind Explorer, and MasterView International) I well aware of what it takes to write articles, reviews or actionable invitations when under pressure or in need to complete something before a deadline. This is not in fact the best way to operate for us.
I have noted and seen many times over how the ability for people like us to be able to jot down a story, revise it promptly, and shoot it out to our targeted network of friends and partners is so elating. It is so, because that bridge and that message need to be closed and delivered almost in real-time. And you can feel that. When we are timely and when we are to the point, we are MOST effective.
There are important "memes" going around the interconnected intelligence networks that we are very much part of, and being able to be embedded in such communication networks and having the ability to infuse new information and to support strong ideas and solutions as they emerge in your noosphere is really what we need to do more frequently and efficiently.
So let me sum it up:
1) You are not dreaming.
2) Yes, it is a Sunday, but I am fully aware and sober, so what you are reading is not a joke.
3) I am offering you the opportunity to publish on the Web your best ideas, commentary and messages with complete immediacy, total ease of use and one-click publishing (from your Mac or PC).
4) I am not asking anything in exchange but your seriousness in using this tool once I set it up for you (for free).
5) Your writings will appear in a Web page with your name and a slogan/ tagline you are to choose.
6) The design of this page is fully on me. Though you may not like this, I have no other way to keep this opportunity free of problems and development issues. Again there is no cost for this.
7) Yes, I will support you so that you can start doing this with maximum ease, peace of mind and clear instructions. Unfortunately there is very little to learn. All you need to do is write good stuff, the rest pretty much takes care of itself unattended.
8) If you don't like it, don't need it, oppose it, or plainly do not want to hear about this anymore, you are still fine with me and I will not insist.
9) If you do use it and comprehend the importance for you to extend your reach and potential as a critical Communication Agent of our time, then you can count on me and all of my staff to be part of your assets too.
10) Time for activation is basically zero.
The design of the page will much reflect the one of one of these examples (that is, no fancy design, no special navigation, and your Brain thoughts out there in front of everyone). Though the topics may not correspond with what you will be writing about, you can see some examples at:
How to Save the World
Lawrence Lessig
Dan Gillmor
if not this very page you are reading online now (probably with much less noise on the side columns and a complete focus on your thoughts).
Imagine the added ability for you, while running into some critical story online to select it, and post it immediately, as is, with your own commentary next to it (and with all the credits and linking done for you)!
In view of what John Hammel, Emma's, Dr Rath, Tjarko and Chris have been trying to achieve, this would appear to be the so-called "manna" coming unexpectedly from the sky.
Unexpected? Too Good to be true?
Unexpectedness and rapid change are the fine traits of the times we live in. So let there be no surprise, but only opportunity for you to move to the next stage.
Why am I doing this?
I am doing this because you are the best people I know that I can empower to SPECIFICALLY prevent the EU directives to take away my vitamins and natural remedies from my shelves and from the ones of my friendly health food shop. This is now a very real and tangible threat to our individual freedom to choose our own way to live and cure ourselves.
I am willing to stand to oppose this clamping down on my personal freedoms and this is my pragmatical action to do something about it: give power to those who will use it best and in the direction I want.
I have been deeply touched and motivated to act by the two open letters that John Hammel and Dr. Rath have recently made public.
I am doing this because I believe in the power we hold as communicators to change things before it is too late. It is all about other people learning and discovering what we already have found out. It is not about taking down something, but it is about coming up with something.
I have dedicated many years and resources to share and help people learn and communicate more effectively with new media technologies. So I am not new to this type of action. This is only more focused.
I want, in good substance, to empower those Good communicators that like you have a "voice" that needs to be heard. I and many others need to hear more of your voice and of what you see, hear and discover before us. We are all unique MasterMind Explorers and we have a duty to report to our fellow brothers and sisters what our discoveries are.
As you have shown to be very Good at this, I thought of sharing and providing you with rocket missiles and anti-gravity propulsion mechanisms that I had sitting in my closet.
If we are working toward some common objective, it's about time I hand over some of my tools and best know-how to those I value to be my best complements and allies.
Where is my gain?
My gain is knowing I am doing the best I can, to augment the opportunity for this interconnected network of intelligent minds to bring about dear, deep change and evolution to humanity on this planet. This is my only hope and reward. To see you cranking out all of your best ideas and thoughts finally unrestricted by technology burdens, delays, having to delegate and having to put with tools that make life miserable instead of a joy.
I am here waiting to read your email, your thoughts and whatever else you may want to say about this crazy Sunday morning offer.
Let's see what they say.
..And if you too are interested in becoming one effective Coomunication Agent, just drop me a line through the comments link here below.
Robin
