The focus this week has been on expanding our reach to ever-larger audiences of trade unionists around the world.<\/p>\n
Internationalisation:<\/strong> Campaigns:<\/strong> Mailing lists:<\/strong>
\nAn appeal to our supporters of English-language campaigns who don’t come from English language countries has resulted in a flood of new translators and new translations for long-dormant languages — in some cases languages where we have fairly large mailing lists. This includes Dutch, Tagalog, Hindi, and Korean. We also have new volunteers for Arabic, Swedish and Malay and are awaiting our first translations into those languages for a while. And we’re almost caught up now with our German language campaigns and mailings.<\/p>\n
\nA review of how the “pass it on” feature works (where you share a campaign by email) shows that it was used 36 times to send to many dozens of potential supporters in the previous week. I’ve put out a request for translations of the “pass it on” texts to our major languages, nearly all of which were received within a few hours (thanks translators!). We’ll now fully internationalise this, and then we’ll restore it to the English language version of our campaigns, taking precautions to ensure that it’s secure.
\nAn appeal for supporters of the campaigns involving jailed trade unionists (Kazakhstan<\/a>, Turkey<\/a>) sent out to the English list and via social media on May Day generated a good response as 1,301<\/strong> new messages were sent on that day.
\nOur Turkey (TUMTIS) campaign has now become our first campaign for a long time to get more than 10,000 supporters — helped over the top by our new Dutch language campaign.
\nThe Liberia campaign<\/a> which ran for an unprecedented 7 months has now been closed, following several extensions. But we’ve not yet heard how this turned out.<\/p>\n
\n278<\/strong> new subscribers were added to our English, German, French, Italian, Turkish, Esperanto and Spanish lists. This is not bad for a week in which we launched no new campaigns.<\/p>\n