Change.ORG

Change.ORG is a community site aimed at collecting ideas for the administration and building communities around those ideas.

There's currently voting going on to choose the top 10 ideas to be sent to the Obama administration.

The Metric contender is Nudge the US to Adopt the Metric System which made it through the first round under Technology Policy.

Voting is from January 5 to January 15 and the results will be presented to the Obama administration on inauguration day.

If you haven't already created an account, you can create one here and then you'll get email once voting opens.

We're running a competition for a video to highlight why we need metric

We need all the help we can get to make this happen. You can help in the following ways:

  • Set your IM status to "Vote for http://change.org/ideas/view/nudge_the_us_to_adopt_the_metric_system and then set your status to this"
  • Do the same for your Facebook/MySpace/etc status
  • Share the page via StumbledUpon/MySpace/Facebook/your blog etc via the share links on the right hand side of the idea page
  • Write a blog/LJ/etc post about voting
  • Email your friends and family, there's a sample form letter below for those who'd prefer

Form Letter

If you've not heard, there's a site collecting ideas for ways in which people think we should change the US called "Ideas for Change in America".

As you know, using multiple measurement systems has a huge negative impact on our economy and makes education more difficult (instead of teaching our kids useful stuff, we're teaching them an archaic customary measurement system). We have the opportunity to fix this and give our economy a significant boost in these difficult times as well as making the future brighter.

I've just voted for this idea and I'd appreciate it if you could too as I think it's important. The link is:
http://www.change.org/ideas/view/nudge_the_us_to_adopt_the_metric_system

The voting process is easy, just:

  • follow the link above
  • click on the box on the left that has the number of votes in it
  • fill in your name and email
  • send this email to your friends while you wait for the confirmation email to come
  • click on the confirmation link from change.org
  • click on the vote box again
The top 10 ideas will be handed to the Obama Administration on inauguration day and there will be a national lobbying campaign run by Change.org and many other leading non-profits to make each idea a reality.