{"id":3946,"date":"2016-10-04T13:27:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T11:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3946"},"modified":"2016-10-04T13:27:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T11:27:28","slug":"why-our-newest-campaign-is-also-our-largest-current-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3946","title":{"rendered":"Why our newest campaign is also our largest current campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some campaigns just take off. \u00a0Our campaign in support of the shipyard workers in Alexandria, Egypt<\/a> is one of these. \u00a0After just one week online, it’s already almost (and by the time you read this, it will be) our largest current campaign, rapidly nearing 6,000 supporters. \u00a0Why is this the case?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Actually, there’s no mystery here: the main difference between this campaign and the campaigns in support of teachers in Ecuador<\/a> or photographers at AFP<\/a> is that this campaign appears in German<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0We have a number of languages, German among them, for which we have substantial mailing lists, but where not all our campaigns get translated. \u00a0For example, we have 5,700 people on our Korean and Dutch mailing lists — but our campaigns are rarely translated into those languages.<\/p>\n

There was a time when the only list that mattered was the English one, but that is no longer the case. \u00a030% of the supporters of the current Egyptian campaign are doing so in languages other than English. \u00a0Of the three most recent campaigns, this is the highest percentage of non-English supporters, and it will probably grow when we launch the Spanish version later today.<\/p>\n

So it’s becoming increasingly clear that for our campaigns to be much larger, we need to translate them into more and more languages<\/strong>, and in particular German, Korean and Dutch. \u00a0And those lists need to continue to grow. \u00a0Something to keep in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some campaigns just take off. \u00a0Our campaign in support of the shipyard workers in Alexandria, Egypt is one of these. \u00a0After just one week online, it’s already almost (and by the time you read this, it will be) our largest current campaign, rapidly nearing 6,000 supporters. \u00a0Why is this the case? Actually, there’s no mystery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946"}],"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=3946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3947,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions\/3947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}