{"id":3189,"date":"2013-10-22T11:29:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T09:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2013-10-22T11:29:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T09:29:54","slug":"the-weeks-in-review-10-22-october-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3189","title":{"rendered":"The week(s) in review: 10 &#8211; 22 October 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/firefoxos\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3191\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px; border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"firefoxosbookcover200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/firefoxosbookcover200.png\" width=\"120\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>Book 3:<\/strong> Now completed, published, and waiting for the first paper copy to arrive before we officially announce it.\u00a0 A draft web page is already live &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/firefoxos\">http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/firefoxos<\/a> &#8212; and will be improved before launch, probably tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intern:<\/strong> We have a shortlist of five intern candidates and will interview them this Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Berlin 2014:<\/strong> I&#8217;ll be visiting Berlin next week, meeting with our organizing committee there plus others.\u00a0 We should be able to launch the conference website by then, and begin online registrations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is how you promote LabourStart:<\/strong> See below for the table Derek set up at the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) convention where he&#8217;s been selling our calendars and books and making great connections for LabourStart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colombia campaign:<\/strong> After just 8 days, this is our second largest campaign ever, with just over 10,100 messages sent &#8212; over 100 of them from Colombia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Calendar sales:<\/strong> Continue to be disappointing, but growing slowly.\u00a0 In October, we sold just 30 copies of the calendar; in September, we sold more than four times that number &#8212; 134 copies.\u00a0 I continue with weekly reminders via social media, and we mentioned it in a recent mass mailing.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll continue with this in the hope that as 2014 approaches, people will begin to buy their calendars &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blog action day:<\/strong> I used this to help promote some of our campaigns &#8212; but there&#8217;s no evidence it helped at all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations:<\/strong> We received once again a large donation from LO Norway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Newswires:<\/strong> I checked to see if there was a problem with one of our French newswires &#8212; there wasn&#8217;t, and with one of our Finnish newswire &#8212; there was, and I&#8217;ve not yet been able to solve the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 3: Now completed, published, and waiting for the first paper copy to arrive before we officially announce it.\u00a0 A draft web page is already live &#8212; http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/firefoxos &#8212; and will be improved before launch, probably tomorrow. Intern: We have a shortlist of five intern candidates and will interview them this Friday. Berlin 2014: I&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,38,10,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189"}],"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=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3192,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions\/3192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}