{"id":1484,"date":"2011-03-09T08:18:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T06:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2011-03-09T08:22:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T06:22:40","slug":"new-mailing-list-system-on-trial-our-annual-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"New mailing list system (on trial); our annual conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mailchimp.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"MailChimp\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mailchimp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/the-head.jpg\" alt=\"MailChimp.\" width=\"119\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m experimenting with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mailchimp.com\">MailChimp<\/a> for doing our larger mailings (the English language ones).<\/p>\n<p>We need a system to mail out frequently and to deliver our messages within minutes and this might be the one for us.<\/p>\n<p>The first mailing to test capacity was yesterday&#8217;s to our correspondents list.<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;ll mail something to the entire English list.<\/p>\n<p>Work has begun on promoting our upcoming 2nd annual <strong>Global Solidarity Conference<\/strong>, to be held in Istanbul on 18-20 November 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Following my meetings last week in Turkey we have set the date and venue (the headquarters of the oil workers&#8217; union Petrol-Is).<\/p>\n<p>This has now been added as an event on UnionBook and Facebook, posted as a tweet by myself and by LabourStart, posted to the wall of LabourStart&#8217;s Facebook group, mailed out as a save-the-date mailing to our correspondents, and mentioned to unions in other countries in the region (Georgia, Egypt, etc.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m experimenting with MailChimp for doing our larger mailings (the English language ones). We need a system to mail out frequently and to deliver our messages within minutes and this might be the one for us. The first mailing to test capacity was yesterday&#8217;s to our correspondents list. Today we&#8217;ll mail something to the entire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}