Some ideas on promotion

G’day Stephen (I assume that’s your real name?)

You will find it is a bit quite around here, but like you I would like to see that change, indeed it needs to change in order to register the party and for it to become a political reality. It goes without saying, once registration has been achieved, a national executive committee has been formed, and the final constitution is agreed upon, we need to get the message to potential voters and members.

I agree positive money is a great template for educating individuals as to how modern monetary theory (MMT) works, and its benefits for all. I believe that a YouTube channel already exists and a lot of other online stuff. Iain Dooley has made in my opinion a herculean effort to initiate and get the AEP to its current metamorphose. He would be the one to engage with as far as what is already in place. A lot of potential voters and members, if not the majority are not tech savvy enough to use never alone find the AEP amongst the online noise and distraction. I personally stumbled on the AEP via positive money and the affiliation that fair money Australia has with it. Although I would not class myself as tech savvy, to the majority of my peers I am, so they would never find the AEP.

I would avoid attempting to promote the AEP via contemporary media because they will control the narrative, and you are in effect playing the game by the rules of other players with superior resources and influence. I truly believe that contemporary media with seek out the AEP if it can succeed in making inroads into political territory. I would suggest even then the attention will be a double edged sword.

In my opinion the AEP has one distinct advantage over all other parties in that its core bank of voters, the unemployed at some time during a calendar year visit their local Centrelink office. I believe it would be an ideal place to distribute flyers. Most will have to wait for their appointments and they would have the flyer to read while they wait. Get the message right and you have a voter and a potential member. The flyer would have the links to AEP online resources and could contain QR code so that those with smart phones have a direct conduit. Centrelink is also ground central for pensions and Medicare, further increasing potential effectiveness. If you combine the unemployed and the pensioners I have calculated you have a potential voting block of around 3.8 million. That’s a lot of political power. This approach is covert and cheap, one dedicated person per office with a ream of paper and a good colour printer, would enable the AEP to cover the country for peanuts.

Do you have any experience setting up a wiki? It’s probably me but I find Trello structure confusing and all over the place. I thought a dedicated member only wiki would be a superior vehicle for discussion, policy and document development. I thought something like Dokuwiki running a bootstrap 3 skin would do the job. Is this within your realm of experience?

Anyway welcome aboard, I look forward to working with you and others to make the AEP a success.