Feb
28
2010
1

LabourStart in Numbers [7]

Here are today’s totals with the change since the end of January in brackets.

  • Mailing lists – subscribers: 63,136 [+911]
  • LabourStart’s English language mailing list – 52,654 [+106]
  • UnionBook – members: 4,410 [+44]
  • Facebook – members of LabourStart group: 2,809 [+45]
  • Twitter – followers: 2,022 [+35]
  • Correspondents: 747 [+15]
  • Union group on Flickr: 528 [+1]
  • LinkedIn – members of LabourStart group: 151 [+14]
Written by ericlee in: Uncategorized |
Feb
23
2010
0

Nearly 300 videos submitted to Labour Video of the Year competition

The nominations phase is now over and there have been 299 nominations made.  This is a significant improvement over the Labour Photo of the Year, which saw only 189 submissions this year.  In other words, the Labour Video of the Year competition has obviously captured the imagination of our readers and is already a success.  I’ve closed the nominations and am turning things over the international panel of judges to come up with a shortlist.  Voting for the winning video will take place next month.

Written by ericlee in: Labour video of the year |
Feb
15
2010
4

New tool – today’s most active correspondents

Here’s a new tool that shows who is posting the news each day on LabourStart.  Interesting to note how few correspondents are active, and who the active ones are.

Written by ericlee in: News database |
Feb
15
2010
0

Competition extended by one week

At the request of Chris Garlock, from the Washington DC Metro Labor Council, I’ve extended the deadline for submissions for the Labour Video of the Year competition by one week.  So far, there have been 165 submissions.  I used the opportunity to remind readers about several union films related resources, including LabourStart.tv, the Labour films group on UnionBook, the online labour films database and list of labour film festivals that we co-sponsor, and Tom Zaniello’s book, which we sell through UCS (and which is really one of our best-sellers).

Written by ericlee in: Labour video of the year |
Feb
10
2010
0

100 videos nominated!

The Labour Video of the Year competition has really taken off, with 100 videos already nominated.  For the complete list, see here.

Written by ericlee in: Labour video of the year |
Feb
03
2010
3

Labour video of the year [updated]

As we discussed at our conference in Washington last summer, LabourStart will this year be sponsoring the first ever global Labour Video of the Year competition.  Nominations are now open and the nominating form is here.  As nominations come through, you’ll be able to view them here.

Publicity is crucial for the success of this project, so here’s what we’re doing (this will be updated as more is done):

  1. Site publicized as a top global news story on LabourStart – and therefore on our global labour newswire
  2. It is also a news item on LabourStart.tv
  3. Posted to Twitter.
  4. Posted to Facebook – Eric Lee’s account.
  5. Posted to Facebook – LabourStart Group wall.
  6. Message sent to all 2,776 members of the LabourStart Facebook group.
  7. It’s a site-wide message on UnionBook, seen by anyone visiting the site.
  8. Message posted to the British TUC’s UnionReps site
  9. 5 Feb: Mailing to over 52,000 names on the English language LabourStart list.
  10. 8 Feb: Now this is great publicity! (Translation via Google: “Espen Løken in Industrial Energy calls for Norwegian videos from the workplace to an international competition organized by LabourStart”)
Written by ericlee in: Labour video of the year |
Feb
01
2010
0

Conference agenda now online

I’ve posted the first rough draft agenda for the conference online and have written to all our correspondents to share it with them, urging them all to post their comments.

Written by ericlee in: 2010 Conference |

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