Scouts take to the skies

poetix said :

CentenaryOfCanberra said :

Glad to have made your day Poetix – though I think a key element of ‘astroturfing’ is failure to disclose your affiliations, and we think our username (quite deliberately) makes our identity very clear!

Indeed (-:
Usually people who do it have names like John123 or CoC2013. Feel free to use that last one if you feel a bit sneaky in the future.

I fail to see what about this story makes you think of astroturfing.

Astroturfing usually means creating illusion of community support for something through the undisclosed funding of a supposedly neutral organization who then push your agenda for you.

In this story, we have a group openly supporting a well established community organization. Then the funding organization openly states that they were happy with how it’s going?

Pretty hard to see a conspiracy in that.

CentenaryOfCanberra said :

Glad to have made your day Poetix – though I think a key element of ‘astroturfing’ is failure to disclose your affiliations, and we think our username (quite deliberately) makes our identity very clear!

Indeed (-:
Usually people who do it have names like John123 or CoC2013. Feel free to use that last one if you feel a bit sneaky in the future.

Glad to have made your day Poetix – though I think a key element of ‘astroturfing’ is failure to disclose your affiliations, and we think our username (quite deliberately) makes our identity very clear!

CentenaryOfCanberra said :

Very exciting to see this Centenary Community Initiatives Fund project get off the ground (literally … ).
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May I just say that it’s lovely when the word ‘astroturf’ becomes so very appropriate, in such a surprising way. A balloon, destined to fly, tethered to the grass, attracting a complimentary comment from the people funding the same. You have made my day, sir or madam.

And I hope the scouts actually get to fly!

Very exciting to see this Centenary Community Initiatives Fund project get off the ground (literally … ). Congratulations to the whole team involved, especially those who braved this beautifully clear but very cold morning to be part of the launch!

We had a lovely chat with Jessie, one of the Scouts completing the training, she’s a great ambassador for the program!