AFL-CIO on the Labour Photo of the Year
See here.
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.
Publicity so far:
Let me know how you have publicized this in your country!
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 …
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 –
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:
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:
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)
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.
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.
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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