Nov
07
2008
6
Nov
07
2008
0

Weekly mailing

I’ve re-sent the mailing which initially went only to correspondents about the winning photo – to everyone.  It’s already gone out to the English, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish lists.

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Nov
03
2008
1

Labour photo of the year – and the winner is …

Publicity so far:

  • Top story on LabourStart’s front page in English; also appears on sites using our global syndicated news in English
  • Labour photo of the day
  • Flickr
  • LabourStart Facebook group – mailed to all members, over 1,700
  • Free the Blackadder One Facebook group – mailed to all 2,516 members
  • LabourStart correspondents – mailed to all 500
  • Submitted to Labour Research magazine in the UK and The Guardian and The Independent newspapers. Labour Research has replied and may use the winning photo.
  • Requested the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in the UK to publicize this with a press release
  • Posted to the very popular web forums at UnionReps.org.uk
  • Wrote to the more than 50 members of PCS – the winner’s union – on our mailing list.
  • Suggested that a Labour MP might wish to make a statement in the Commons. What may now happen is a display in the British Parliament building of the finalist photos – details soon.
  • This blog
  • Page translated into French.
  • International Union Rights has expressed an interest in running the photos.
  • We’re on the front page of an important Norwegian union website.

Let me know how you have publicized this in your country!

Nov
01
2008
0

Labour photo of the year – the end

Voting has now been halted. There is a clear winner. We’ll announce it here, and then to correspondents, the media, our email subscribers and the general public. Please be a bit more patient …

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Oct
31
2008
0

Weekly mailing goes out – appeal for support for our $80,000 campaign

This week’s mailing has just gone out. The main thing is to ask people to give our News Challenge bid some support, both by giving us five stars and adding supportive comments. If we can flood the News Challenge website with such messages, it might convince the judges that we really do have such a global constituency. I don’t know if this will have any effect, but I can’t see it hurting.

We’re also reminding people about last week’s Oak Harbor/Gap campaign which has drawn a response from the company and a counter-response from the union (which we’re publishing in full).

And there’s a reminder at the end about the U.S. elections which we really can’t ignore, even if we know for certain that I’ll get a handful of angry emails from supporters of minor, third and fourth party candidates. For 99.999% of the organized working class in the U.S., the impending victory of Obama and the Democrats is an event of historic proportions an we need to acknowledge that.

Impact of the email message:

As of 31.10 07:38 GMT –

  • News Challenge – 21 views, rating of 2.3 stars
  • Oak Harbor campaign – 2,430 messages sent
  • Oak Harbor Facebook cause – 1,050 supporters
  • Labour Photo of the Year – 2,648 votes cast
Oct
26
2008
0

Mass mailing goes out – let’s monitor the results

I’ve just sent out a mailing to our more than 52,000 subscribers in English. Even though it’s a Sunday, the effect of the mailing should be dramatic. The things we’ve asked people to do, and which we can monitor, include:

  1. Sending off a message in support of Oak Harbor strikers and join the associated Facebook cause.
  2. Voting in the Labour Photo of the Year.
  3. Donating to LabourStart.

In order to measure the impact of the mailing, it’s important to know our baseline, where we are starting from. So here are the initial numbers:

  • Messages sent in Oak Harbor campaign – 83 (English only)
  • Signed up to Facebook cause – 132 (Yes, 49 more than those who sent messages)
  • Labour Photo of the Year – 2,070 votes cast
  • Donations – none so far today

Stay tuned – update coming soon …

Updated 27.10.08 08:51 GMT

Campaign – 1,536
Facebook group – 458
Labour Photo of the Year – 2,212
Donations – $80.00 (4 donations)

Oct
26
2008
1

Labour photo competition result: 429 new subscribers

Our email lists continue to grow. Today, it turned out that 20% of those voting for the Labour Photo of the Year competition were not yet subscribers to our list, and had agreed to be added. That’s 429 more people on the mailing list — another great reason to have done this competition.

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Oct
20
2008
0

AFL-CIO promotes our contest

See here

1,932 votes cast so far. See here.

Derek commented:

Thanks for the tip on this Andrew, Eric.Can I ask everyone to flog the contest page (NOT the counter page) to their lists ASAP? We have less than 2 weeks left in the voting period.

As well, it would be very good for the contestants and for future contests if we could arrange for the finalists or at least the winner to appear in as many places as possible. So if you have any contacts in the labour and progressive media and could work them a bit that would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

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Oct
18
2008
0

We have five really great photos, so …

Derek Blackadder writes:

Time to start to flog the photos to various magazines and such that we have contacts at. Our Times in Canada. I also know the people at Labour Notes in the US fairly well … I’ll also contact some other Canadian magazines and such. Initially I’m just saying that the contest ends with the month and if they’re interested they can use them, help us announce the results and flog next year’s contest. … If you would do the same in your necks of the woods that would be great.

I agree – Eric.

Derek adds:

Please do flog this with progressive media you may have contacts at/with. It’s free material for them, so they should be interested. If they do get picked-up, please let me know and send along the URL and even a print copy if that’s the only way in which it gets published. I’d like to pass that kinda stuff along to the photographers.

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