I'm back!
Things are still not settled with the school, and that's a whole other pain in the backside, but for the time being, I've decided to return to my blogging community, and jump back in with the people who have offered me the most support, the most hope and the most optimism.
Happy New Year to all of you!
I'm glad to see that Yahoo 360 is still here. Anybody hear any word on that? Last I heard, it would bite the dust in "early 2008." Well, I'm going to look with interest to see what happens then. Who knows? Maybe Yahoo will get it right with the new 360, or YMash, or whatever the heck it is. If I don't care for it, well, I've got numerous other online communities that I am also apart of, and I'll probably catch you all around those places.
In the mean time, just in case Yahoo has a good thing coming up, I want to try something new this New Year. One thing I have always wanted to see was autism gear for the avatars. I know there were online petitions before, demanding that Yahoo put autism gear out there, but I want to take a little more gentle approach. From what I gather, after politely requesting autism gear for over a year now, Yahoo doesn't see us as a big group, like the Breast Cancer Foundation or the AIDS Awareness groups (which DO have avatar gear). And perhaps we aren't that big. But we do have numbers, and I think if we speak out and nicely ask that Yahoo take us into consideration, perhaps Yahoo will relent and give us a puzzle piece background or a puzzle piece ribbon or something. We may not have the publicity of the cancer or AIDS groups, but we do have a huge volume of Yahoo customers, hoping for representation. Why don't we just ASK? All of us!
What I am proposing we do, is to POLITELY ask Yahoo to provide us with autism gear. Don't whine or complain or criticize. Just request it. After all, they say honey attracts more bees than vinegar, right? So let's give them some honey!
Here's a sample letter that I have sent numerous times to Yahoo. Feel free to use it, or to add your own words or whatever. All I ask is that you keep it nice and friendly:
Dear Yahoo,
Could Yahoo please come up with some Autism gear for our avatars? Perhaps a puzzle piece background, or Autism Awareness tshirts, or the Autism Awareness ribbon, etc?
Please, Yahoo?
Autism now affects 1 in every 150 children. This is more prevalent than Juvenile Diabetes, Childhood Cancer and Pediatric Aids, COMBINED. A child is diagnosed with autism about every 20 minutes. And the prevalence is growing.
Many parents, and autistic individuals, would greatly appreciate the time and effort you put forth to create something for Autism Awareness (myself included). If you need samples of the Autism Awareness Ribbon, or anything like that, I would be thrilled to help you.
Thank you.
YOU CAN SEND THESE LETTER TO YAHOO AVATAR FEEDBACK:
http://feedback.help.yahoo.com/feedback.php?.src=ATT&.done=http://avatars.yah...
How does that sound? Now let's get as many of those letters out there as we can! Maybe if they get a lot of letters, they might be interested in helping us. Pass it around. Ask everyone you know in the autism online community to participate. Let's show Yahoo that we are out here, and that we care about autism, and that we would love their help in making others aware. What do we have to lose?
Peace, and Happy New Year!
Joni
No comments:
Post a Comment