24 hours later …
Two hundred nominations for the Labour Website of the Year and one hundred new members of UnionBook following our soft launch. Good morning, LabourStart.
Two hundred nominations for the Labour Website of the Year and one hundred new members of UnionBook following our soft launch. Good morning, LabourStart.
I’ve written to all members of the LabourStart group on Facebook – and to the ‘Free the Blackadder One’ group as well, and to all LabourStart correspondents. I’ve also posted to the Wall of a number of Facebook groups I belong to. Within minutes, the number of active users on UnionBook has jumped. I’ll be leaving soon, but it will be interesting to see how many sign up in the first day … More on my UnionBook blog.
We’ve asked our readers to nominate their favorite union websites – and they’re doing so at the rate of one every 60 seconds, for now. You can view their nominations as they come in here. At the end of this month we’ll close nominations and open up to LabourStart correspondents the selection of a shortlist. More details in the new year.
After trialling this blog for a few weeks among the senior correspondents, we’re today inviting all LabourStart correspondents to come for a visit. Feel free to bookmark this blog (or add it to your favorites) and check it regularly. Add comments if you’d like.
Please do keep in mind that this is an internal blog for the use of LabourStart’s correspondents and is not aimed at the broader public (though it is not password-protected or anything like that).
As the Teamsters have stopped focussing on The Gap as part of their Oak Harbor campaign — they’ve moved on to other companies — we’ve agreed to shut down our campaign after about 6 weeks online. We’ll announce this in today’s mass mailing.
We’ve also asked the UE — which has been quite busy this week — about closing down the Janos, Mexico campaign which was launched in August. We’ve had no updates at all from them, and fewer than 1,000 messages sent.
Not sure if anyone noticed, but our TV page hadn’t been updating for the last 3 1/2 months …
Now fixed.
We actually set something up a few years ago – ahead of our time, as usual – but didn’t promote it and didn’t sustain it. It’s time to do this right.
Have a look at http://www.labourstart.org/m . Best to view this in your mobile phone or PDA.
Here is how it will look in an iPhone:
Later today you’ll be able to reach this at http://m.labourstart.org
Later this week, I’ll begin sorting out versions in the other languages – but for now this works in English, and is live.
It’s that time of year again.
As we did last year, this year we’ll invite all our readers to submit their nominations for sites and our correspondents will choose which sites make the short-list.
Then we’ll invite all our readers to vote to choose the 2009 Labour Website of the Year from that short-list.
I’ll make the nominations form available online as from tomorrow, announcing it in our mass mailing.
Readers will have about three weeks to make their nominations, which will close on 31 December.
In January, correspondents will have at least a couple of weeks to select the short-list. Then voting will begin.
There’s a lot of programming work involved, as we basically recycle the software each year, but with modifications. I don’t have all the stages ready yet, but the submission of nominations works and has been tested.
It works in 8 languages at the moment – English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, and Polish.
Here’s what Google Analytics has to say about the last month for LabourStart:
Most popular language home pages:
We now have a Greek version — no content yet, but we should have the first stories up today. All thanks to our new correspondent there, Nikos Lountos.
Powered by WordPress | Aeros Theme | TheBuckmaker.com WordPress Themes