{"id":1805,"date":"2011-07-25T11:05:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T09:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2011-07-25T11:05:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T09:05:37","slug":"big-growth-in-fans-ls-badge-for-facebook-palestine-campaign-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1805","title":{"rendered":"Big growth in &#8216;fans&#8217;; LS badge for Facebook; Palestine campaign takes off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people who are fans of LabourStart&#8217;s Facebook page in English has leaped from <strong>1,710<\/strong> to <strong>1,879<\/strong> in just two days &#8211; a growth of 10%. \u00a0If this rate continues, sometime in the next day or two we will reach 2,000 fans. \u00a0This would mean leaping over five other sites in the &#8216;league table&#8217; I published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1793\">here<\/a> on the weekend, putting LabourStart in 19th place instead of 24th.<\/p>\n<p>Also over the weekend I quietly launched a LabourStart &#8216;badge&#8217; which people can use on Facebook. \u00a0You can learn more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.picbadges.com\/labourstart\/2012892\/\">here<\/a>. \u00a0It looks like Derek, myself and one other person have successfully done this to our Facebook images. Should we promote this more aggressively?<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Palestine campaign is doing very well relative to other recent campaigns. \u00a0Here are the totals:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Georgia 3,617 (25 days online)<\/li>\n<li>Iraq 3,411 (55 days online)<\/li>\n<li>Botswana 3,363 (49 days online)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/cgi-bin\/solidarityforever\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1057\">Palestine<\/a> 3,138 <strong>(only 4 days online)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Colombia 2,819 (35 days online)<\/li>\n<li>Korea 2,746 (12 days online)<\/li>\n<li>Russia 1,697 (46 days online)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people who are fans of LabourStart&#8217;s Facebook page in English has leaped from 1,710 to 1,879 in just two days &#8211; a growth of 10%. \u00a0If this rate continues, sometime in the next day or two we will reach 2,000 fans. \u00a0This would mean leaping over five other sites in the &#8216;league [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805"}],"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=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1806,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}