The end of LNN?
I just had a request – as I frequently get – to publicize union news that doesn’t yet appear on the web. In the past, we’ve always tried to get people to use our Labour News Network for this purpose. But LNN, no matter how we did, has always been a bit tricky. The latest version uses Jottit.com, which breaks one of our own rules (over-reliance on free tools that we can’t control).
Today I had an appeal to stop the deportation of a Saudi Arabian trade unionist from Britain. Instead of posting it to the Jottit site, I used my own blog on UnionBook and made the blog entry public. Then I linked to it from LabourStart. This way, it will be seen by every user visiting the public front page on UnionBook as well as those visiting LabourStart.
I’m thinking that if we slowly phase out the Jottit site, we can give people one more good reason to use UnionBook – as a publishing platform.
What do you think?
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Tried to use LNN yesterday but it kept telling me the password was incorrect, although it wasn’t.
Maybe use UnionBook instead then?
Definitely: mve to UB.
Or pass back the buck by telling the union that wrote the stuff to use UnionBook themselves.