Reader Feedback: What Do You Want To See?
In October 2007, the National Motorists Association Blog was launched with little fanfare. In fact, the first post was initially viewed by only a few hundred people. Fortunately, the blog has grown tremendously since then. We’ve written over 110 articles to date and there are now thousands of people visiting everyday.
Our goal has always been to make the blog interesting, informative and useful for our readers and we think we’ve succeeded so far. However, in order to continue to grow our readership, we wanted to get some feedback from our readers on how we can better serve their interests.
If you have any suggestions for improvement, here’s your chance to contribute.
Simply add your suggestion in the comments of this post. We promise to read and consider each comment.
Thank you for your support and readership. We really appreciate it.
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I agree HubCap.
Easier to share experiences . The method of police enforcement with traffic has become increasingly less about the public safety and more about revenue enhancement .
Best way for our police to get back in the business of protecting and serving is by challenging the status quo and sharing about ways we can get involved .
I would like to see an actual discussion forum format where NMA members could initiate discussion topics rather than just commenting on an article.
Hey I just started a meetup group in Orange Park, FL. It looks like the first of its kind! Anybody in the area is welcome to join and everyone should check it out to see how easy it is to start a meetup group in your own area.
http://trafficsafety.meetup.com/12/
I’d like to see a list of other like-minded organizations, websites, and blogs – you could do a “blogroll” for instance. Such a resource would allow us to reach out and make alliances, and drive more traffic to NMA!
Keep the blogs coming, great opinions, info and point of view. Perhaps the sheep of the US will someday get informed as to what is really happening and take a stance to protect their rights. As a whole, it can be done.
The same goes for gun rights and the 2nd amendment. Keep the US “free”.
One thing I would like to see is the mobilization of our members to affect change by consolidating information and manpower. It would be nice if each topic (i.e. speed limits, red light cameras, etc.) was broken down into an individual downloadable argument package that contained information to thoroughly educate the member on the issue as well as suggestions on how to present the idea in public. The packet should contain at least one long well-written paper. The papers should have all their facts and statistics cited and cover all aspects of the issue, including potential arguments people may bring up that would oppose the NMA agenda and how to counter them. There should also be a professionally done power point presentation that a member may use for public presentation on the issue.
At the state level we also need to get meet up groups going online so members can get together and discuss their strategy. Each state should have a plan on how to most efficiently affect change, a battle plan so to speak. For example, I know here in Florida we have something called Community Traffic Safety Teams associated with the state DOT (Department of Transportation) which might be a good starting point to push our ideas. In other words, we need to find the proper channels in each state that are most efficient for presenting our ideas and making changes, whether it be your Community Traffic Safety Team, your DOT district office, town hall meeting, etc. This could be something the meet up groups could help with so that everyone isn’t scattering their sticks into the wind going in all different directions, but attending meetings with strength in numbers. Basically, we need to sharpen our swords and figure out where the best place is to stick them.
I know you are already working on these things, and I really appreciate the service you are providing. Here are just a few things I really enjoy about NMA, and what I would like to see more of:
1. A user friendly topical index of previous posts by subject.
2. Tips/Alerts regarding traffic laws and perhaps a section alerting readers to particularly onerous law-enforcement practices or a daily state-by-state user section alerting drivers of speedtraps.
3. News about idiotic government regulations/initiatives to make it more difficult to drive or afford a motor vehicle, including wasteful spending of tax dollars on programs to “get people out of their cars” instead of improving traffic flow and highway construction. (And, perhaps an “action plan” for what we can actually do about it!)
Keep up the good work!
I would like to see three technical changes:
1. Make all of the threads visible so that we could go to any particular thread without having to search all through hidden threads
2. Put in a “new” message icon so that we could click on it and go straight to the first unread post.
3. Put in a “search” feature.
Politically, the direction is just fine. I’ve gotten used to the usual baseless nonsense put up by the anti-destination league so they are not much of a bother. Besides, they sometimes get the old juices flowing.
Great job guys!
I would say it would be nice to write about what our cities do right but I’m guessing we would have a blank section.
I really enjoy what you all publish i think more info on accomplishments by the nma would be nice but i think so far you all are doing great and keeping me informed.
I’ve been reading this blog for a couple of months now and I have to say, I think your direction is spot on. The other site on the same topic that I read, http://www.thenewspaper.com has a lot of shorter stories, with a focus lately on red light cameras.
I am in the process of working on a documentary on driving so I have been looking for some psychological profiles of different types of drivers. Or stereotypes. I also have been getting interested in traffic engineering principles and theory.
If anyone else has any blogs or forums that I should know about please pass them along (in the comments.)