Crowdspeaking platforms

The more people say a thing, the more the idea will be acted on

I consider the direct democracy as the best (not perfect) form of ruling, but since the ancient Athens we haven’t fully lived it yet. It is the single way where people can decide directly and continuously regarding laws and policies. No more lying politicians and much tougher implementations of their hidden agendas, because they lose their popular support instantly.

Although it seems such a good way to rule, it is not implemented since the ancient Athens — one of the reasons being that it was impossible to implement it when you reach above a certain number of citizens in a community, or spread across a vast territory. However, in the age of internet, it is now possible for people to gather in groups to support an idea. If there are enough people in a certain group, their voice will be strong enough, so politicians (or market) will have to act on their wish.

One such place for people to crowd and speak together is thunderclap.it:

Thunderclap is a tool that lets a message be heard when you and your friends say it together. Join a Thunderclap, and you and others will share the same message at the same time, spreading an idea through Facebook and Twitter that cannot be ignored.

This is the only crowdspeaking platform that I am aware of right now. Although it is a nice service, I see some ways the platform could be tuned:

The possibility for ongoing campaigns — with thunderclap you shout your message — but just once. What if you could gather a bunch of people supporting an idea and continuously promote messages on that idea.

With the above concept in mind (without knowing about thunderclap), we created PRForge. On very short, PRForge is a place where people can create groups based on common interests and, whenever a member posts something in the group, all the other members will automatically reshare the message on their social network profiles.

PRForge is in closed beta right now, but you can express your interest in the platform and we’ll either send you an invitation, or we’ll let you know when we’re totally open.