{"id":3330,"date":"2014-01-17T14:45:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T12:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2014-01-17T14:45:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T12:45:02","slug":"the-week-in-review-10-17-1-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3330","title":{"rendered":"The week in review &#8211; 10-17.1.14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Campaigns:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=2129\">Cambodia campaign<\/a> is doing very well &#8212; after just a week, we&#8217;re up to well over <strong>10,000<\/strong> messages sent, making it our second largest current campaign (Kazakhstan is the largest).<\/li>\n<li>We just launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=2141\">a campaign<\/a> yesterday in defense of Colombian unions; it picked up some <strong>4,300<\/strong> supporters in the 24 hours online.<\/li>\n<li>We closed the previous Colombia campaign just in time after it ran for three full months.\u00a0 Huber is, unfortunately, still in jail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Berlin 2014:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I participated on Saturday in a very good meeting with four members of our organizing committee in Berlin.\u00a0 Gisela and I also agreed a number of changes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/2013\/index.php?langcode=de\">LabourStart&#8217;s German language page<\/a>, some of which have been done.\u00a0 These include some new pages about LabourStart, a registration form for new correspondents, and so on.<\/li>\n<li>The total number of people registered is now <strong>280<\/strong>, up 20 in the last week.\u00a0 Of those, 59 are from Germany and 42 from the UK (meaning that of those 20 new ones, 7 come from the UK and Germany).<\/li>\n<li>I wrote to the more than 100 people who&#8217;ve requested help getting a visa to clarify once again that we cannot help with airfares and to ask for some more details; about 19 have responded so far.<\/li>\n<li>The TUC is offering us a room to convene a meeting of people from the UK who have registered, or are thinking about coming to Berlin; we&#8217;ll hold this in February.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re doing a lot of targetting of specific countries; Tom is doing some work focussing on the closest neighbours to Berlin: Poland, the Czech Republic and Denmark.<\/li>\n<li>I contacted the ITUC two days ago asking for a meeting when I&#8217;m in Brussels but no answer yet.<\/li>\n<li>I fixed the link to the conference on our home pages in all languages &#8212; it now points to the right place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>LabourStart Books:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dan Gallin has sent us 12 essays with 3 more to come; we&#8217;re exploring new ways to produce this as we&#8217;re not happy with CreateSpace&#8217;s service and will probably use Lulu (who did our calendar).\u00a0 Our aim is the get the book out fairly quickly and certainly well in advance of the Berlin conference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Correspondents:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I continue with weekly mailings; this time, I aimed to encourage yet again inactive correspondents.\u00a0 After 24 hours, we saw a result &#8212; a <strong>10%<\/strong> increase in the number of correspondents posting news (up from <strong>78<\/strong> to <strong>85<\/strong> this month) and increase in stories (up by <strong>326<\/strong> in just one day &#8212; the previous daily average was just <strong>167<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li>We added several new correspondents this week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>French LabourStart:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We continue to make progress, having made at least half a dozen fixes this week.\u00a0 Some of them are small fixes to all languages and are contributing to making the site more useful for non-English speakers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Canadian LabourStart:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I moved some things around on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/2013\/country.php?country=Canada&amp;langcode=en\">the page<\/a> at Derek&#8217;s request; it looks better now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Country pages:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve fixed the search, which now always brings up the new pages.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve also created a search on all languages, which we had on the old site but hadn&#8217;t preserved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Fundraising:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s been a week since we launched our quarterly appeal to &#8220;power users&#8221; (people who&#8217;ve supported 3 or more campaigns in the last year).\u00a0 Results have been good &#8212; we&#8217;ve taken in<strong> just over \u00a34,000<\/strong> in donations this week.\u00a0 This is similar to how we did last April, and probably better than the two appeals since then.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Travel:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ll be travelling for most of the next two weeks &#8212; all of next week in Istanbul as a guest of KESK, to participate in the opening of the trial of their activists.\u00a0 The following week I&#8217;ll be in Geneva and then Brussels.\u00a0 This may mean slower response times to emails, but I hope you&#8217;ll all understand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigns: The Cambodia campaign is doing very well &#8212; after just a week, we&#8217;re up to well over 10,000 messages sent, making it our second largest current campaign (Kazakhstan is the largest). We just launched a campaign yesterday in defense of Colombian unions; it picked up some 4,300 supporters in the 24 hours online. 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