{"id":2981,"date":"2013-06-10T09:24:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T07:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2013-06-10T09:26:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T07:26:55","slug":"the-week-in-review-29-may-10-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2981","title":{"rendered":"The week in review – 29 May – 10 June"},"content":{"rendered":"

Campaigns<\/strong><\/em>
\nTurkey – This<\/a> is the big one, likely to become the largest campaign we’ve ever done, and possibly even reach my personal goal of 20,000 messages sent, sometime this week.\u00a0 Lots of updates below.
\nSmall screen version goes live – Our campaigns now look MUCH better on smartphones and tablets, a first example of “responsive web design<\/a>” on LabourStart, with more to come.<\/p>\n

Berlin 2014<\/strong><\/em>
\nEdd and I drafted a very short document explaining what we’re hoping to achieve in Berlin at next year’s LabourStart Global Solidarity Conference.\u00a0 We’ll be having a phone call with the ITUC today and a meeting with Gisela, who is based in Berlin, in two weeks, in London.<\/p>\n

Publicity<\/strong><\/em>
\nWe’ve been running a Facebook ad campaign for nearly 3 weeks now.\u00a0 It’s cost us $288.00<\/strong>, the ads have been seen by 68,389<\/strong> people in the UK and Germany, and we’ve picked up 677<\/strong> new ‘likes’.\u00a0 As a result of this, we now have 1,694<\/strong> likes from the UK and 185<\/strong> from Germany — making it our 6th strongest country.
\nAs reported below, we got good publicity in the German\/Austrian Esperanto magazine.<\/p>\n

Books<\/strong><\/em>
\nBook sales continue to be slow.\u00a0 In June, we sold only 19<\/strong> copies of the Global Labour Movement book<\/a>, and 4<\/strong> of Campaigning and Winning<\/a> (all in English).<\/p>\n

Site traffic<\/strong><\/em>
\nAs reported below, we’ve started using Clicky to provide real-time updates on traffic to our sites.\u00a0 It was quite fun to watch a world map light up when we launched the Turkey campaign.<\/p>\n

Internationalization<\/strong><\/em>
\nWe’ve identified 11 “dormant languages” on our news pages where correspondents have ceased to be active.\u00a0 We prioritized six of these (Finnish, Swedish, Danish, Portuguese, Farsi, Italian) and have posted a message on each one explaining that the page is not currently being updated, but asking for volunteers to help.\u00a0 We’ve also begun writing to each mailing list in these languages and have already gotten some new correspondents.
\nWe have been able to do those mailings and post messages in those languages because we have picked up a number of new volunteer translators.\u00a0 We did this by writing to people from different countries who had signed up to the English language version of our Turkey campaign.\u00a0 As a result, we have an unprecedented 24<\/strong> languages for the Turkey campaign.
\nFinally, we continue to constantly update our news pages.\u00a0 Most recently, our French-language Canada page<\/a> is shaping up well, with top stories now for the first time.<\/p>\n

Events<\/strong><\/em>
\nWe now have a proper form to submit events<\/a> and people have begun submitting them.\u00a0 We’ll set this up so that events for specific countries are automatically sent by email to the appropriate editors who will decide what to post.\u00a0 We’ll begin publicity to all our correspondents and subscribers once things quiet down a bit here …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Campaigns Turkey – This is the big one, likely to become the largest campaign we’ve ever done, and possibly even reach my personal goal of 20,000 messages sent, sometime this week.\u00a0 Lots of updates below. Small screen version goes live – Our campaigns now look MUCH better on smartphones and tablets, a first example of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,3,60,8,16,5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981"}],"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=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}