Here's a sample of a good mission statement
By curbly414Umm... I thought that I posted this originally when I signed up but I couldn't find it in my curbly blog just now. So i'll post again. To continue on what I posted in the first post (i guess) here about making a better curbly mission statement. I'm especially fond of the mission of wiki and myartplot. I'm copying and pasting myartplot.com's here for our review. Though, if you get a chance, perhaps comment and let me know what you thinK? The way they've framed this is that they're trying to solve an economic issue associated with the art industry. Is this correct? Is this believable? Eh, I buy into it.
MyArtPlot (MAP) is a global community and movement of artists, artisans, enthusiasts, and buyers, fighting to create a united, supportive, and non-elitist arts and crafts world. Social, professional, and commercial tools thrive here. No more isolation and starvation.
The Identity
The art world does not exist. Together, let us create one.
MyArtPlot.com (MAP) is a global arts and crafts community and movement.
Fighting elitism, it is an empowerment platform that offers functional
tools to re-design the industry's archaic social, professional, and
commercial dynamics. On MAP, any one participant is a crucial element
of the global movement.
We are here because, as artists, artisans, and crafters, we've suffered
for far too long the crushing blow of global isolation caused by
technology deficiency. Being trapped in our respective localities, we
are plagued by the elitist elements that prevent the global
cohesiveness of our industry while severing the limited bonds within
our isolated communities. These days, the focus deviates from the raw
passion and genius of creation and rests too much upon simply knowing
the right people. Elitism in social capital and other forms of
resources has created an uneven playing field amongst us, causing
inefficiencies in most of us to inspire, to produce, to connect, and to
sell. MAP is our profession's singular honest attempt to combat the
failures of our industry while actively incorporating the important
partcipation of buyers. Together, we dare to fight against elitism and
the absence of a globally centralized support and connectivity source.
We boldly imagine a world in which we are no longer disconnected,
low-resourced, and financially unstable. In our world, there exists a
free flow of affordable original arts and crafts to all public and
private spaces.
The Function
By providing functional social, professional and commercial tools, MAP
allows disconnected artists, crafters, artisans and buyers worldwide to
connect socially while interacting professionally and commercially. On
MAP, you can showcase, critique, rate, review, favorite, buy, and sell
original arts and crafts while interacting with people from around the
world and across all experience levels.
The Mission
MAP attempts to solve a problem that has plagued artists and art buyers
worldwide since the emergence of the artisan profession some millennia
ago. The problem states that social, professional, and commercial
interactions between artists, artisans, crafters and buyers are
inefficient, caused by technology deficiency, with all parties
suffering from (1) information asymmetry, lacking equal distribution of
information about each other, and (2) isolation, having no easy
centralized channel to connect and interact globally. Therefore, those
who create original arts and crafts are notoriously known for earning
substandard incomes simply because they, as independent operators, lack
easy access to a global concentration of each other and of buyers.
Similarly, buyers, lacking the same access to those who create goods,
have trouble accessing original arts and crafts, which are thus only
available to those who are well connected to the artistic communities
and who can afford the high prices, driven up by the inability to sell
in large quantities. This situation of inaccessibility from all sides
and high prices results in a majority of the arts and crafts
professions earning low incomes while original arts and crafts buyers
become an extremely elitist group which excludes perhaps a majority
potential buyers who, lacking social and financial resources, resolve
to buying reprints. Facing this problem, MAP offers itself as a
solution.
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I believe I agree w/Optimist. Seems like much wordiness to say something fairly simple.
curbly414
LOL!
optimist
So you are proposing to set up a web site where people can offer their art and craft work for sale and criticism. Why not just say that instead of all the very off-putting waffle about elitism and information asymmetry.
I am impressed though that you are finally taking on a problem that has existed for several millenia, but then, the previous millenia didn't have the advantage of the internet did they?
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