{"id":550,"date":"2009-08-17T17:04:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T15:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=550"},"modified":"2014-05-09T10:34:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T08:34:36","slug":"ls-conference-primary-issues-introduction-and-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"LS Conference–primary issues, introduction and discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Lee’s\u00a0 introduction.\u00a0 Topics:\u00a0 LS campaigns.\u00a0 Australian Right to Work.\u00a0 Written campaign guidelines.\u00a0 “Super Campaigns” on enormously popular issues.\u00a0 International relations.\u00a0 Revive Portuguese LS.\u00a0 Top Ten languages and\u00a0 new editions of LS.\u00a0 Spanish LS edition has doubled in the past year.\u00a0 LS news service syndicated to hundreds of labor sites.\u00a0 Regional meetings.\u00a0 Take Unionbook to the next phase.\u00a0 Blog aggregators.\u00a0 Use Unionbook as a blog platform.\u00a0 Multimedia:\u00a0 Radio LS.\u00a0 Labor film.\u00a0 Photo of the day.\u00a0 Sell more books online.\u00a0 Success and lack of success of various projects.\u00a0 Fund raising:\u00a0 LS must be the cheapest <\/em>project that the labor movement has ever known.\u00a0 Next year’s conference.\u00a0 Where should we be this coming Wednesday?\u00a0 “To do” list for 2009-2010.\u00a0 Most trade unions in US to not know about LS.\u00a0 Welcome to Washington … let’s have a great conference!<\/p>\n

Discussion:\u00a0 More than half Australian labors use the LS news feed.\u00a0 After lunch tomorrow, we will continue to discuss how to make ourselves better known to American unions in more detail.<\/p>\n

Is is possible to get a feed for particular states?\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n

When labor-website writers create websites, about 70% request LS news feed.\u00a0 Many American trade unionists do not have a sufficient degree of interest in labor projects not directly related to their own work.\u00a0 Still, many trade unionist don’t appreciate the necessity of having websites.\u00a0 Average trade unionists are different from “hard-core” organizers and activists.\u00a0 LS is often approached by individuals who seem not to understand whether their particular concern is one that deserves international attention.<\/p>\n

It is surprising that many union locals will allow a LS news feed on their sites.<\/p>\n

Languages:\u00a0 LS began only in English.\u00a0 We add new languages quite often.\u00a0 Other than English, LS’s most popular languages now are Finish and Norwegian.\u00a0 We will not promote an “English only” agenda.\u00a0 LS is now in 23 languages. What are languages would be useful and that have large constituencies?\u00a0 Spanish news feed for Latino-speaking unions and locals would be useful.<\/p>\n

Computer literacy and access are concerns, too.<\/p>\n

See this …<\/p>\n

http:\/\/blog.aflcio.org\/2009\/08\/17\/welcome-labourstart\/#more-17584<\/p>\n

… for James Park’s report on the LS conference.<\/p>\n

LS podcasts?\u00a0 Should we?\u00a0 May not be sufficiently popular now.\u00a0 LS and internet radio:\u00a0 BBC once sent a reporter to see our London “studio.”\u00a0 WINS still exists:\u00a0 mostly American<\/em> labor news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Lee’s\u00a0 introduction.\u00a0 Topics:\u00a0 LS campaigns.\u00a0 Australian Right to Work.\u00a0 Written campaign guidelines.\u00a0 “Super Campaigns” on enormously popular issues.\u00a0 International relations.\u00a0 Revive Portuguese LS.\u00a0 Top Ten languages and\u00a0 new editions of LS.\u00a0 Spanish LS edition has doubled in the past year.\u00a0 LS news service syndicated to hundreds of labor sites.\u00a0 Regional meetings.\u00a0 Take Unionbook to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}