Some highlights:<\/p>\n
* Nearly all the mailing lists<\/strong> are growing – some quite dramatically (the German and Spanish lists, for example, over the last couple of months). Here are the totals with the last month in brackets (large gains are in bold face<\/strong>):<\/p>\n Mailing lists (with over 100 members)<\/span><\/p>\n English: 65,425 [65,139]<\/strong> Social networks<\/span> UnionBook 2.0 \u2013 members: 4,599 [4,498]<\/strong> Website<\/span><\/p>\n Correspondents: 930 [916] Some highlights: * Nearly all the mailing lists are growing – some quite dramatically (the German and Spanish lists, for example, over the last couple of months). * As for social networks, there’s now a virtual tie between the number of users of UnionBook, the members of LabourStart’s Facebook group, and our followers on Twitter. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,7,17,33,20,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980"}],"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=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n* As for social networks<\/strong>, there’s now a virtual tie between the number of users of UnionBook, the members of LabourStart’s Facebook group, and our followers on Twitter. At the moment, the Facebook group is the largest – by 4 people. But it suffered a net loss in members this month, while UnionBook picked up about 100 new ones. \u00a0My guess is the UnionBook or Twitter will lead next month.
\n* We continue to pick up several members each week for our LinkedIn group<\/strong>, which we barely use and never promote. We’re now up to just under 500 members. If any of you are very active users of LinkedIn and are keen to take charge of this, let me know.
\n* At our current rate of growth, we’ll be at 1,000 LabourStart correspondents<\/strong> by the end of February. At that point – or sooner – we might want to begin to purge the list of inactive ones.
\n* There was a massive increase in traffic to the site<\/strong> in October – page views alone were up about 30% compared to September. And on a peak day, we’re now getting over 24,000 unique visitors.<\/p>\n
\n French: 3,291 [3,199]<\/strong>
\nNorwegian: 2,342 [2,318]
\nSpanish: 2,051 [2,021]
\n German: 1,058 [908]<\/strong>
\nTurkish: 708 [700]
\nRussian: 609 [597]
\nItalian: 552 [539]
\nPolish: 303 [302]
\nPortuguese: 244 [252]
\nChinese: 249 [249]
\nDutch: 235 [231]
\nSwedish: 188 [190]
\nJapanese: 124
\nFinnish: 181 [179]
\nDanish: 115 [117]<\/p>\n
\n <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nFacebook \u2013
\nMembers of LabourStart group: 4,703 [4,714]
\n Like LabourStart.org page (English): 2,855 [2,705]<\/strong>
\nLike LabourStart page (French): 83 [79]
\nTwitter –
\n English \u2013 followers: 4,699 [4,541]<\/strong>
\nFrench \u2013 followers: 80 [78]
\nUnion group on Flickr: 658 [652]
\nLinkedIn \u2013 LabourStart group: 485 [464]<\/p>\n
\n Unique visits to the site this month : 573,525 [503,250]<\/strong>
\n Peak day: 24,154 – 18.10.11
\nPage views this month: 1,402,386 [1,120,845] <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"