{"id":2765,"date":"2013-01-28T18:18:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T16:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2013-01-28T18:18:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T16:18:12","slug":"weekly-review-21-28-january-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2765","title":{"rendered":"Weekly review &#8211; 21-28 January 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New campaign:<\/strong> We launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1693\">a new campaign<\/a> in support of Korean government workers, whose president is on hunger strike. \u00a0This is the first campaign we&#8217;ve ever done that&#8217;s picked up any supporters at all in Korea, and was quickly translated into that language (among many others). \u00a0We&#8217;re already over the 5,000 mark and hope for this to turn into a large campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New mailing list system:<\/strong> I have experimenting with <a href=\"http:\/\/sendy.co\/\">Sendy<\/a> and have to say that so far, am very pleased. It works, it&#8217;s cheap, and the tech support has been great. \u00a0(This is taking a lot of time, but as it will save us something like \u00a35,000 this year, it will be worth it.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book 1:<\/strong> I&#8217;m completing the writing this week of <strong><em>Making Unions Stronger &#8211; Using the Internet Better<\/em><\/strong>, which will be published by UCS this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book 2:<\/strong> Sales continue to go well for <em><strong>Campaigning Online and Winning<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(473 sold so far) and we&#8217;ve had offers to translate into French and German. \u00a0We have a Kindle edition of the English version ready, but it needs some tweaking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New language:<\/strong> Our friends at the KMU in the Philippines have given us a translation of our campaigns framework into Tagalog &#8211; spoken by an estimated 28 million people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Newswires:<\/strong> All the regional newswires are now working.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coming soon:<\/strong> The third annual survey of trade union use of the net.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New campaign: We launched a new campaign in support of Korean government workers, whose president is on hunger strike. \u00a0This is the first campaign we&#8217;ve ever done that&#8217;s picked up any supporters at all in Korea, and was quickly translated into that language (among many others). \u00a0We&#8217;re already over the 5,000 mark and hope for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,8,7,10,16,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765"}],"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=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2766,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions\/2766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}