{"id":1254,"date":"2010-07-19T15:04:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T13:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2010-07-19T15:11:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T13:11:57","slug":"elgg-alternative-iraqi-oil-workers-serbian-podcasts-conference-followup-and-book-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1254","title":{"rendered":"Elgg alternative, Iraqi oil workers, Serbian, podcasts, conference followup, and book sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the LabourStart correspondents meeting last Sunday in Hamilton, someone suggested we look into <a href=\"http:\/\/buddypress.org\/\">BuddyPress<\/a> as an alternative to Elgg. \u00a0It looks interesting, but I&#8217;m not convinced we have good reason to migrate (even if we can migrate). \u00a0So I&#8217;ve put it out there via UnionBook, Facebook, Twitter, etc and will see if someone thinks this is a great idea and can make a compelling case for it.<\/p>\n<p>I closed down the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/cgi-bin\/solidarityforever\/show_campaign.cgi?c=669\">Iraq oil workers campaign<\/a> in all languages &#8211; it had been running for more than 3 months.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve setup the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/sr\/\">Serbian edition<\/a> of LabourStart, and am currently working with a comrade there to get it off the ground.<\/p>\n<p><span>Last Friday I recorded <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ericlee.libsyn.com\/index.php?post_id=631432\">my sixth podcast<\/a><span>, this time on the subject of hashtags and how they were used at the LabourStart conference. \u00a0As of this afternoon, 376 people have downloaded it and listened to it. \u00a0I also<\/span> wrote up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=392\">an account of the conference<\/a> and posted it to my blog. \u00a0Then I\u00a0updated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/2010\/\">the conference page<\/a> to include links to my article and the podcast relating to it.<\/p>\n<p><span>I sent out mass mailing promoting <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ssl30.pair.com\/unionist\/ccp51\/cgi-bin\/cp-app.cgi?rrc=N&amp;pg=prod&amp;ref=posters&amp;affl=labourstart\">our book of the month<\/a><span>, my podcast, two articles about the conference and our ActNOW newswire. \u00a0As a result of this, we sold a few books and got a couple more sites to adopt our newwire.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the LabourStart correspondents meeting last Sunday in Hamilton, someone suggested we look into BuddyPress as an alternative to Elgg. \u00a0It looks interesting, but I&#8217;m not convinced we have good reason to migrate (even if we can migrate). \u00a0So I&#8217;ve put it out there via UnionBook, Facebook, Twitter, etc and will see if someone thinks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,8,10,16,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}