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Google’s Grassroots: An Effective Use of a Call to Action

Posted Jan 18, 2012 by Chris Sinclair | Comments ( 3 )

Google may now be the EF Hutton of the Internet:  when they speak everyone listens.  Or when they search, and Google “speaks”, people listen---especially when it comes to regulating the company's world.

Exhibit 1:  Google’s effective use of a creative call to action in the controversial and on-going battle in Congress over  the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) ---which is meant to stop online piracy but would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American businesses.    

 Anyone notice this recently on the Google search page?

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No, that’s not a smudge on your screen---it’s obviously Google’s not so subtle message about the potential for shutting down the Internet, if SOPA passes.  When you click on the black box, it takes you to a simple landing page with a short message and info graph showing the coalition against the proposed law.  The call to action, is a petition. 

 

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I signed it (not the expressed opinion of Cornerstone Solutions, LLC).  If you care about your freedom on the Internet, you will too.  But beyond that, it’s more to see how a creative and effective use of the Internet to educate, persuade and mobilize can achieve great results. 

Last I heard, the Bill has stalled in the House.  Maybe that smudge on your screen today helped. 

What do you think about Google’s grassroots campaign?  

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