{"id":3309,"date":"2013-12-31T13:16:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T11:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2013-12-31T13:16:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T11:16:07","slug":"the-weeks-in-review-19-31-12-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3309","title":{"rendered":"The weeks in review &#8211; 19-31.12.13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Campaigns:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Korea campaign, closing today, was one of the largest we ever ran. In the last 13 days, it grew from 11,295, which was already pretty good, to <strong>14,566<\/strong> &#8212; a gain of 3,271 during the Christmas period.<\/li>\n<li>Our Kazakhstan campaign continues to grow, albeit slower &#8212; we&#8217;re now up to <strong>10,731<\/strong>, a gain of over 730 in the last two weeks.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ll be a launching a new campaign in support of United Steelworkers Canada after the new year. The earlier version was closed five days ago.<\/li>\n<li>We closed two other campaigns (Honduras and UN staff) a week ago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Berlin 2014:<\/strong><\/em> We&#8217;re up to <strong>241<\/strong> registrants, 50 from Germany, 36 from the UK, and the remaining 155 from 51 other countries. In another 11 days, Tom and I head over to Berlin to meet the organizing committee there. I&#8217;ve done a mailing to all registrants and we now have the option to de-register people who cannot attend. As I&#8217;ve explained before, many of the registrants have asked about subsidies even though we&#8217;ve repeatedly explained that everyone must pay their own way.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Mailing lists:<\/strong> <\/em>These continue to grow and grow. We&#8217;re ending the year with <strong>97,100<\/strong> addresses on our top three lists: English &#8211; 84,853; French &#8211; 7,112; Spanish &#8211; 5,135. A year ago, those three lists totalled <strong>85,501<\/strong>&#8212; a net gain of 11,599, or nearly 14%.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Social networks:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We picked up another 5 new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/labourstart\">Twitter<\/a> followers in the last 5 days, bringing our total to <strong>11,243<\/strong>. It was 8,115 a year ago &#8212; a growth of 3,128, or almost 39%. This is much higher than the growth of our mailing lists.<\/li>\n<li>We have considerably fewer supporters on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/labourstart.org\">Facebook<\/a>, with only <strong>8,267<\/strong>. A year ago that number was 5,877, so we&#8217;ve picked up 2,390 new fans on Facebook &#8212; a gain of over 40%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Book and calendar sales:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/calendar\/\">Calendar<\/a> sales reached <strong>221<\/strong> by year&#8217;s end &#8212; disappointing, but not a disaster.\u00a0 (We didn&#8217;t lose any money, and earned \u00a3172.)<\/li>\n<li>Sales of our latest book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/firefoxos\/\">Firefox OS for Activists<\/a>, continue to slowly grow.\u00a0 We sold 97 paperbacks and 115 Kindle editions, for a total of <strong>212<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll report on sales of our other titles in the new year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigns: The Korea campaign, closing today, was one of the largest we ever ran. In the last 13 days, it grew from 11,295, which was already pretty good, to 14,566 &#8212; a gain of 3,271 during the Christmas period. Our Kazakhstan campaign continues to grow, albeit slower &#8212; we&#8217;re now up to 10,731, a gain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,3,7,16,33,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309"}],"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=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3310,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions\/3310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}