Weekly roundup – but for 3 weeks this time (oops)
As I was travelling in the USA for part of this time, I have an excuse. Anyway, here are some of the things I’ve been up to these past 3 weeks.
Campaigns: I’ve closed a number of those that reached the 3 month limit, and launched three others. Our biggest campaign ever was launched during this period. I began work on a new system to allow others – senior correspondents, for example – to launch campaigns while I am travelling. I also did a full review of the last two campaigns and what’s been translated and what not; as a result, we now have campaigns and mailings done for Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish and Hebrew. I’m still waiting for responses from our translators for Korean, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish and Vietnamese. Ideally, all campaigns will appear in 18 languages, and we’ll mail to 18 lists. As a result of these campaigns, we now have over 93,000 names on our mailing lists.
Social media: I dealt with problems that arose from repeated attacks on our Twitter account (now solved). UnionBook grew to more than 5,000 members for the first time.
Partners: I set up a meeting at the ITUC, to take place in Brussels next week. I continued fundraising efforts with GUFs and British unions. So far this year, nine GUFs have given money and seven British unions have either pledged or donated.
Conference 2012: Work continues in Sydney; our organizing committee there is growing and meeting regularly and we’re sharing information on Basecamp.
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Biggest, but still in need of regular pushes and I think it and the Egypotian campaign still need to be highlighted in the weekly mailings and perhaps flogged in a special mailing to correspondents asking them to push it (perhaps provided a message they can cut-and-paste? I think some may be reluctant to draft these things themselves). It should be possible to break 15,000 on the Iranian campaign without too much effort. I say we aim for 20,000 in another two weeks.
Good point – and good goal. Iran is now at 13,147. Egypt is at 6,411 (way too low!). I’m taking some steps this afternoon to boost both campaigns. Let’s see if we can do better than this!
Here’s what I’ve done this afternoon – some of this is focussed solely on the Iran campaign, others on both Egypt and Iran.
Wrote to all LabourStart correspondents, including a suggested – very short – text they can forward on
Posted a short text to the LabourStart Facebook Page and Group, and to Twitter
Posted a status updated in my name on UnionBook which is also posted to my own Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts
Posted a reminder to the LinkedIn group
Wrote to other campaigning organizations asking their help to get the word out – Amnesty International and SumOfUs
If you do something special this weekend to grow these campaigns, post it here as a comment.
All good. Really like the message to correspondents. Today I’m doing a mailing to my list. I’m also trying to make sure that my personal and both LS Canada Twitter accounts tweet the campaign every few hours all day every day. Using Hootsuite makes this easy.
I have also written to the uni techers and school teachers unions here in Canada, but to date that has not had any effect.
Mmmm…is it possible to write to everyone who has participated in the campaign already, thank them and suggest that they take the bit of text you came up wioth for the correspondents and send it out to all their contacts???
Extracted the “unopened” addresses from the French mailing list (3026) and made a temporary list. Sent out a second mail based on Eric’s English version.
Found a list of 66 local education unions in France, imported it to Mailchimp and sent a mail to this segment.
Found another list of 83 union addresses and did the same. Found out that if you send a mail to a segment of recently added addresses and then replicate the campaign, Mailchimp automatically selections the latest imports. Practical!