Sep
22
2010
1

So, who’s posting news in each language?

As part of my effort to review all the languages we currently work in, to identify problems and so on, I’ve written software that allows us to see who has posted news in a particular language this year.  Here are some examples:

Written by ericlee in: Internationalization,News database |
Sep
22
2010
0

Because of one tiny byte …

We’ve not had a working French language campaigns newswire for weeks (maybe months).  Now fixed – see it here.  Thanks for everyone’s patience with this.

Written by ericlee in: Campaigns,Internationalization |
Sep
21
2010
0

1.4 million ads shown on Facebook this week

We’ve shown the ad ‘Facebook is for scabs’ 1,416,224 times in the last week at a cost to us of $379.61.  446 people have clicked through to visit UnionBook as a result.  In the last 10 days, 254 people have signed up to join UnionBook, which now has 1,614 members.  (At the current rate, we’ll reach 2,000 members in another two weeks.) I intend to continue running the ad for a few more days at least.

Written by ericlee in: UnionBook |
Sep
20
2010
1

My weekly podcast – continue?

I’d love to hear your views on this – either as comments here or as emails to me.

Back in May, at LabourTech Canada, I was enthused by the idea of doing podcasts.

My first podcast went live at the end of that month, and overall I’ve now done a dozen of them.

When I publicize a podcast to LabourStart’s mailing list, I’ll get between 200 to 700 listeners.  But if I don’t mention it in a mass mailing, and just publicize using the web, Facebook, Twitter, iTunes, etc, I can get as few as 75 listeners.

I’m not sure I want to use the LabourStart mass mailing every time I do a podcast, and not sure there’s any real interest in my continuing to do them.

What do you think?

Written by ericlee in: Radio LabourStart |
Sep
17
2010
0

Latest podcast

On the subject of content management systems.  Listen here.

Written by ericlee in: Radio LabourStart |
Sep
16
2010
0

UnionBook – update on ads, domain name

The ad campaign on Facebook has given UnionBook the kind of exposure you can only pay for  … and we are paying for it.  In the last day and a half or so, since our ads went live, they’ve been shown over 300,000 times.  A small number of people have clicked through (87 so far) and we only pay for those.  One result of all this is that we’ve seen a significant increase in the number of new users of UnionBook.  We now have over 1,500 users of the site, 127 of whom joined in the last day and a half.

Today we switched the domain name so that http://www.unionbook.org points to the new site.  The old site can be found at http://www.unionbook.org.uk — but this is causing problems and people cannot access the old site.  We’ll try to have that fixed by the weekend.

Written by ericlee in: Uncategorized |
Sep
13
2010
2

Check out our new ad on Facebook

I wonder how long they’re going to let this one run …

Written by ericlee in: UnionBook |
Sep
13
2010
1

UnionBook: Nearly ready to make the shift

We’re getting ready to shut down the old UnionBook and replace it with the new one.  In anticipation of this, I ran a survey — and will publish full results later this week.  But the headline is this: 427 people have responded so far.  An overwhelming majority – 83% – want to continue with the new, Ning-based version of UnionBook.  Only 7% would want to go back to the old, Elgg-based version.

Written by ericlee in: UnionBook |
Sep
03
2010
0

Making it easy to translate our interface into other languages

I’ve just set up an online form here that allows us to easily translate our news interface into new languages.  I’ll be testing it out today with the trade unions in Georgia.  If this works, I’ll do the same for our campaigns.

Written by ericlee in: Internationalization |
Sep
03
2010
1

What software designers are getting wrong, and why, and what we can do about it

My weekly podcast this week is about ‘software design and proletarian internationalism’ and is all about our experience using Ning.  Listen to it here.

Written by ericlee in: UnionBook |

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