{"id":3347,"date":"2014-02-07T15:18:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T13:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2014-03-07T11:06:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T09:06:42","slug":"the-week-in-review-31-january-7-february-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3347","title":{"rendered":"The week in review – 31 January – 7 February 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Campaigns:<\/strong><\/em> I’ve fixed two things that were nagging me — (1) When signing up to support a campaign, you now must choose a country, and “Select a counrtry” doesn’t count.\u00a0 Previously, we had “Afghanistan” as our first country and had large numbers of people ignoring this and letting that remain.\u00a0 They’re now being forced to choose.\u00a0 (2) You now have to enter a valid email address, with a “@” and full stops (periods).\u00a0 Obviously we’re not completely testing, and some invalid email addresses will slip through., but at least you have to enter something that remotely looks like an email address.<\/p>\n

News:<\/strong><\/em> See below — this should help expand the reach of our news stories.\u00a0 (I’ve written to all our correspondents about this today.)<\/p>\n

Mailing list:<\/strong><\/em> I’ve invited a number of senior correspondents and translators who already do mass mailngs to use MailChimp directly — and very pleased to see that several have taken me up on the offer.\u00a0 This should speed things up a bit when sending out mailings.\u00a0 We’ve nearly completed the migration of our language mailing lists from Sendy to MailChimp.<\/p>\n

Berlin conference:<\/strong><\/em> Lots happening — details to come.<\/p>\n

Interface for adding news:<\/strong><\/em> Our Finnish and (soon) Italian correspondents will have an interface in their languages when they post news.\u00a0 This is already the case with a number of the languages.<\/p>\n

Books:<\/strong> <\/em>We’re making progress on the Dan Gallin book, which is already several hundred pages long.\u00a0 Andy has translated the global labour book into French.\u00a0 Tom is doing an inventory of books in the office and calculating how many we’ve sold in the first year as a publisher.<\/p>\n

Dates of news stories:<\/strong><\/em> The dates appearing next to news stories now appear in the more standard dd-mm-yyyy format — an improvement suggested by Andy.<\/p>\n

Campaigns:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> There are a couple of suggested new ones.\u00a0 Meanwhile, we closed the Fiji campaign — a big win.<\/p>\n

Articles:<\/strong> <\/em>I had two more articles appear on the KESK trial in Turkey — in Labor Notes and OpenDemocracy.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Campaigns: I’ve fixed two things that were nagging me — (1) When signing up to support a campaign, you now must choose a country, and “Select a counrtry” doesn’t count.\u00a0 Previously, we had “Afghanistan” as our first country and had large numbers of people ignoring this and letting that remain.\u00a0 They’re now being forced to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,3,7,6,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347"}],"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=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3348,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions\/3348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}