What's "The Point"

I happened to stumble across "The Point" recently. I'd heard of it before, but never bothered to look. I'm glad I did.

This is the first time an entrepreneur's business spin-off from an activist site has led me back to the activism! (See Groupon.)

The Point has a nice approach of aggregating campaigns together. But it only does that for campaigns created there, as far as I can tell. Now that so many activist groups are using web-based tools, it would be nice to have it all in one place.

Personally, just as a result of being somewhat active in the Obama campaign, I get requests to sign petitions, send email, etc. using web-based tools from at least 15 different groups. Anyone who has ever discovered how much better it is to pay all their bills from their credit union's (or bank's) bill payer service, rather than go to 5 or 10 different sites will understand this concept.)

The Point does very little "editorial" work - there are featured campaigns, very broad lists of topical areas and listings of new campaigns. Tying campaign listings to major news events or similar editorial work to push those with potential to influence a current issue would be valuable. It would also be more valuable if it also aggregated outside campaigns, as discussed above.

A.E.

P.S.: I used The Point to sign up for a 'Net Neutrality campaign.