{"id":3697,"date":"2015-03-19T11:52:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T09:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2015-03-19T11:52:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T09:52:54","slug":"new-campaigns-improved-tools-and-an-instructional-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3697","title":{"rendered":"New campaigns, improved tools and an instructional video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was travelling for most of the last two weeks, but here are some updates anyway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campaigns:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We launched a new campaign in support of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=2677\">Kenyan truckers<\/a> at the request of the International Transport Workers Federation. \u00a0Over<strong> 5,300<\/strong> people have already signed up to support the campaign.<\/li>\n<li>We closed down the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=2647\">Rio Tinto<\/a> Valentine&#8217;s Day campaign at the request of IndustriALL and the Peru campaign given to us by Public Services International. \u00a0The campaign got over <strong>9,000<\/strong> messages sent to the company and definitely got their attention.<\/li>\n<li>We did a followup mailing and additional publicity in support of sacked Ecuadorian union activist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=2662\">Jimena Lopez<\/a>, adding another 1,110 new supporters to the campaign.\u00a0Increasingly we do followup mailings to people who didn&#8217;t open the first message and this produces good results. \u00a0That campaign has just over <strong>8,000<\/strong> supporters.<\/li>\n<li>We now have a new template for our mass mailings which includes some good links not just to forward the mail but to post to Facebook, Twitter, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>International Women&#8217;s Day:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We sent all correspondents a link to short instructional <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/tEFiDQMbxOA\">video<\/a> on how to tag working women&#8217;s news stories on LabourStart. (We&#8217;ll be making more videos like this &#8211; let me know what you&#8217;d like done.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was travelling for most of the last two weeks, but here are some updates anyway. Campaigns: We launched a new campaign in support of Kenyan truckers at the request of the International Transport Workers Federation. \u00a0Over 5,300 people have already signed up to support the campaign. We closed down the Rio Tinto Valentine&#8217;s Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697"}],"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=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3698,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions\/3698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}