{"id":1473,"date":"2011-02-20T20:09:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T18:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2011-02-20T20:09:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T18:09:56","slug":"sunday-evening-update-campaigns-twitter-newswires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1473","title":{"rendered":"Sunday evening update: campaigns, Twitter, newswires"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve just closed down the campaign<\/a> in support of jailed teacher trade unionist Rosalba Gaviria Toro, which generated 3,590 messages of protest. \u00a0Natasha Morgan of Justice for Colombia wrote to say: “Labour Start has really boosted the campaign, and it would be excellent to work with you again in the future.”<\/p>\n

We’ve found a better way than Twitfeed to automatically update LabourStart’s tweets<\/a>. \u00a0We now use Tweetlive<\/a> for this purpose. \u00a0At present we have 3,027 followers, a gain of 25% in the last six months with some 600 new followers.<\/p>\n

We now have a newswire for British Columbia<\/a>; this was requested by someone who designs and manages websites for unions there.<\/p>\n

All the email addresses we collected in our first annual survey<\/a> of global trade union use of the net have now been added to our mailing lists.<\/p>\n

Here are our top current campaigns – all of them launched within the last month – in order of popularity:<\/p>\n