{"id":780,"date":"2009-10-23T11:42:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T09:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=780"},"modified":"2009-10-23T11:42:37","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T09:42:37","slug":"labour-newswire-lessons-from-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Labour Newswire &#8211; Lessons from the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a decade has past since we launched the Labour Newswire.\u00a0 As union websites told us they added the newswire, we added them to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/cgi-bin\/show_lnwgn.pl\">global directory<\/a>.\u00a0 The problem is, we don&#8217;t know when those sites remove the newswires or if the sites themselves disappear, and we don&#8217;t always know when new sites start using the newswire.\u00a0 Which is why we need to go through the directory from time to time and clean it up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just completed the clean-up of the UK section, which has dropped from 124 to 35 sites.\u00a0 If this is true for most countries, then the actual number of websites using our newswires is closer to 200 than to 700.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is some very large and important sites continue to use our newsire in the UK, such as the UNISON national and Scotland regional sites, and the national websites of PCS, TSSA and USDAW.\u00a0 (Napo has temporarily taken the newswire down from its national site, but the General Secretary assures me that it will soon go back up.)\u00a0 The popular TUC&#8217;s UnionReps.org.uk site continues to use it.\u00a0 The health and safety newswire is particularly successful.<\/p>\n<p>My next task is to start visiting UK union websites which do not use our newswire and get them to do so.\u00a0 If any of you can do the same with your countries, it would be appreciated.\u00a0 (I know that Stuart is working on the USA.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a decade has past since we launched the Labour Newswire.\u00a0 As union websites told us they added the newswire, we added them to our global directory.\u00a0 The problem is, we don&#8217;t know when those sites remove the newswires or if the sites themselves disappear, and we don&#8217;t always know when new sites start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}