Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Evite as a tool for activists?

After doing a search on Evite, I could not find any events that act an action alert to protest or rebel against something, but it certainly has the capability to do so. A person can organize a protest with the time, day, place, and other details all on one page. A downfall of this is that unless if the organizer knows the email address of everyone to be involved in the protest, it may be hard for the evite to be distributed.

Evite can be used to update and send reminders to an activist group's members; however, the event must not have already happened. If an event occurs in the past, it will not be displayed for the public to see, and the event will be labelled as past event (where invitees cannot reply).

Evite is not a good public information resource or a means of research circulation. As mentioned, an event organizer must know the email address of all participants before it can be widely distributed. A person may constantly search for events about a protest on the evite website, but if he/she who does not know about a possible protest, he/she will not search everyday for it.

As you can see, Evite is good to initiate an action, but it is not good for organizing and maintaining its current information.

After thinking about this, I went back to Evite and looked at the publicly posted events. They are all about parties or places to go socially/causally. They do not organize a group to rebel or protest against somebody or another group.

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