{"id":2828,"date":"2013-03-06T11:54:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T09:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2828"},"modified":"2013-03-06T11:54:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T09:54:54","slug":"weekly-review-26-february-6-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2828","title":{"rendered":"Weekly review – 26 February – 6 March"},"content":{"rendered":"

Annual survey:<\/strong> We’ve gone up from 500<\/strong> responses to 2,082<\/strong>. We still need 872 more to beat last year’s record. We got an article on the TUC blog, Stronger Unions, which has helped boost interest in the UK. \u00a0We’ll stop collecting responses in just 13 more days — on 19 March.<\/p>\n

Site re-design:<\/strong> I incorporated most of the comments made by comrades on what I did so far. Masha, who is a professional graphic designer, is going to suggest a new logo design soon — once we have that, we can go live, first with the English version. The draft site is here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Campaigns:<\/strong> We launched our Turkey campaign<\/strong><\/a> and it’s already up to 8,613<\/strong> supporters. We closed down the Bahrain and Netherlands FNV campaigns (see separate posts for reports.) Edd and I both did articles about the Turkey campaign for Solidarity and the New Left Project (a website).<\/p>\n

Book 1 (Online campaigning):<\/strong> The French edition has been created and is available for purchase. Sales of both editions have now reached 611, with another 43 free copies given out, for a total of 654. We’ve now paid for ‘extended distribution’ meaning that the books (in English and French) will be available in bookshops and from other online retailers, including Amazon Canada.<\/p>\n

Book 2 (Global labour movement):<\/strong> Edd and I are working hard on this one, aiming to get it ready by May Day. In addition to what we’re writing, we solicited submissions from a number of comrades and are pleased that we’ll have contributions from ICTUR, Amnesty, the Global Labour Institutes, the TUC and others. See more details here: http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2818<\/p>\n

Internationalization:<\/strong> We’ll have campaigns in Slovak starting this week. All our campaigns have been translated into Esperanto and our translation group in that language now has 8 members. I’ve contributed an article (an interview, of sorts) for an Austrian Esperanto magazine about LabourStart. We’ll have a Korean interface for our news later today.<\/p>\n

Fundraising:<\/strong> We now have a venue and date for our London May Day fundraiser – May 4th, 19:30 at the Bread and Roses pub<\/a>. \u00a0Two months before the event, 77 people say they are coming or may be coming.<\/p>\n

Public speeches:<\/strong> I spoke at the Unison Wales Women’s Development Weekend in Swansea on Saturday to an audience of about 26; I sold all 10 of the online campaigning books I brought with me. Next Wednesday, Edd and I (and Anita Gardner of IndustriALL) will be on a panel at the e-Campaigning Forum in Oxford. On March 31st, I’ve been invited to speak at a fringe meeting of the annual conference in Bournemouth of the teachers union NASUWT. In addition, Napo – the probation officers union – has asked me to run a workshop on social media.<\/p>\n

Social Networks:<\/strong> We now have a page on Google+<\/a> which, according to our survey, is widely used by trade unionists.<\/p>\n

App for smartphones and tablets:<\/strong>\u00a0I’m completing one this week for the IUF and when done, I’ll know how to do the one for LabourStart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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