Hi, can anyone tell me what the advantages & disadvantages of Individual Avocacy & Systems Advocacy are? Thanx

Answer 1

1) The advantage of Individual Advocacy is to argue in favor of something such as a cause, idea, or policy; thus bringing attention to the situation.

2) The disadvantage of Individual Advocacy is that unless you gain grass-roots support your cause may not gain the traction necessary to bring about the change desired.

3) The primary advantage of Systems Advocacy is greater access to the media and fund-raising to focus attention on a cause.

4) The disadvantage of Systems Advocacy is sometimes the "Spin" or bias is so strong that the agenda is clearly seen to be self-serving and not fair.

Answer 2

Wikipedia has a great article on this. system advocacy is the practice of attempting to increase the awareness and improve the perception of a computer operating system. The motivation behind this may be to increase the number of users of a system, to assert the superiority of one choice over another or out of brand loyalty, pride in an operating system's abilities, or to persuade software vendors to port specific applications or device drivers to the platform.

Due to the often emotional nature of advocacy debate and its sometimes narrow appeal to the wider user population, forums for discussion of advocacy are often separate from those for general discussion. For example, the comp.os.ms-windows Usenet hierarchy has a group reserved solely for advocacy—the Guide to the Windows newsgroups exhorts Usenet posters not to "get involved in arguments about Windows vs. OS/2 vs. Macintosh vs. NeXTSTEP except in the comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy group."[1]