Title: Joel’s Zingers for Social Media
Original CoS Document (slug): joel-s-zingers-for-social-media
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Created: 2023-01-14 18:24:28.137974
Updated: 2023-02-06 23:34:42.806935
Published: 2023-01-13 05:00:00
Converted: 2025-03-05T12:09:58.996436947
*Approved for use by Convention of States Project
Those who are assigned SMWs (Social Media Warriors), please work to share at least 5 zingers a day. We prefer you be consistent rather than do many and then get burned out. You will get responses by sharing only 5 a day. And, if you choose to reply, you will start to develop responses you can save (copy/paste into whatever way you keep notes) as quick responses on the topic of COS. The purpose is to grow this avenue as it costs nothing and only takes about 10 minutes a day. (Unless you go back and forth with repliers and this does happen.) Keep in mind, if someone is just incorrigible, best to just move on as the purpose is not to change everyone’s mind, but to get the word our about COS. We're looking for the lions, not the sheep!
Directions: See a place where COS might get noticed & make an impact? Copy/paste a zinger along with your referral link. See more guidance below the list of zingers, including how to hyperlink and a list of recommended media sites.
To hyperlink: Go to You Tube for a brief 5-minute tutorial. Or highlight the Convention of States in the sentence, hit the “link” then put the address you want to link up with in the proper place called “address”. You can find your referral link in your profile.
Here are the current sites we can post zingers in. Most we do not know yet if they will accept hyperlinks or not. We know a few.
If you find other places to post, please email Joel Thornton at Joel.Thornton@cosaction.com. We want to build up a vast area to explore posting.
Joel's follow-up comments:
If we can get thousands of COS SMWs to do this every day, we can flood the web with our presence. We're starting in Florida to prove this concept and grow our army. These zingers are not intended to be controversial but to entice curiosity. We are trying to pique interest. Studies have found that it takes strong persistence to change behavior. We have to present the bait many times before the hook is set. {Excuse my colloquialism.}
I am calling these Joel’s Zingers not to promote myself, but to give them some personality that you will use and identify with them. It just takes 10 minutes or less a day to post them. You go to, for instance, You Tube, go where you are invited to comment, and you post a zinger. Doesn’t really matter if the zinger has nothing to do with the article. In fact, some repliers will send you a comment on that. So what. Many will send you a “like” just like on facebook. That means you have touched a soul with the good message. And as stated earlier, you will run across some know-it-all who challenges you. Again, the purpose is not to spend your day trying to change a closed mind, but to spread the word about COS. If someday thousands are doing this, we could be impactful. For instance, suppose 1,000 volunteers (out of 2.5 million) post 5 a day. That’s 5,000 posts a day, 35,000 posts a week, 151,550 posts a month (monthly is calculated times 4.33), 1,818,600 posts a year. And this costs nothing. Be one of our 1,000+ SMWs!
My daily routine: I wake up, shower, brush my teeth, shave, put on clothes and POST MY 5 ZINGERS FOR THE DAY. Get in the habit. It only takes a smidgen of time and spreads the word like locusts. On some of these zingers you can include your COS ID to the COS WEB link on the zinger. Some allow and other post destinations do not.
Joel Thornton
1825 Easton Forest Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32317
850-210-2255
Joel.Thornton@cosaction.com; thornjo@yahoo.com
Any questions, just call me.
Or.
John Cunningham; jbocun@gmail.com; 904-535-1012