{"id":4294,"date":"2019-10-18T11:31:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T09:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4294"},"modified":"2019-10-18T11:31:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T09:31:17","slug":"half-way-into-the-competition-we-have-more-than-30-new-labourstart-logos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4294","title":{"rendered":"Half-way into the competition, we have more than 30 new LabourStart logos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New logo competition<\/strong>: We have already received more than 30 entries for our first-ever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/pico\/?en\/newlogo\">international logo competition<\/a> and with two weeks to go, we expect to get quite a few more. We continue to remind people regularly about the deadline &#8211; <strong>31 October<\/strong>. Our message and the page explaining the competition is now out in <strong>16<\/strong> languages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campaigns<\/strong>: We&#8217;re still waiting on news about a possible Colombia campaign. We had a Korea campaign proposed to us, but it turned out to be not suitable for LabourStart.\u00a0 We are currently running two campaigns, one of which is set to close shortly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World Day for Decent Work<\/strong>: We did our bit to promote<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ituc-csi.org\/world-day-for-decent-work\"> this ITUC and GUF-supported event<\/a>, with top global news stories on our site and publicity across social media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Svensson prize<\/strong>: Once again, we publicised the deadline for nominations to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.svenssonstiftelsen.com\/about\"> annual Arthur Svennson prize for international trade union rights<\/a> &#8212; to our English and Norwegian lists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education Internationa<\/strong>l: Eric Lee has been invited to come to Brussels next month to speak with EI staff about online campaigning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tech problems<\/strong>: Our campaigns website was briefly down earlier this week &#8212; causing problems for our home page to display &#8212; but it was swiftly put back online by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webarchitects.coop\">our provider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Activists&#8217; Toolbox<\/strong>: We did the third one, this time promoting <a href=\"https:\/\/simplenote.com\">Simplenote<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/joplinapp.org\">Joplin<\/a> &#8212; great apps for creating, well, simple notes on one&#8217;s phone or computer. We continue to get a certain amount of interest in these apps, and in the most recent mailing we generated <a href=\"https:\/\/app.simplenote.com\/p\/q1kMPk\">a page on Simplenote<\/a> to demonstrate how it can create web pages &#8211; and showing all our Toolbox articles in one place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations<\/strong>: Four global union federations have responded to our appeal with generous donations in the last week.\u00a0 We hope that more will follow suit in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New logo competition: We have already received more than 30 entries for our first-ever international logo competition and with two weeks to go, we expect to get quite a few more. We continue to remind people regularly about the deadline &#8211; 31 October. Our message and the page explaining the competition is now out in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,38,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294"}],"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=4294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4295,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions\/4295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}