Archive | April, 2010
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HTC Desire Unboxing and Start Up Video

Today my brand new HTC Desire arrived in the post, after much delay, from the UK. Given that I’ve watched a few of the unboxing videos on Youtube and elsewhere, I thought I’d do my own. I plan on doing a review of the HTC Desire in a week or so, after I’ve gotten used [...]

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Campaign Monitor has a world-class blog and e-newsletter

I just got a copy of the latest Campaign Monitor e-newsletter and was so impressed that I thought I’d comment on it, and some of the items that I think are worth checking out. Campaign Monitor are an email service provider – that is, they let you manage email campaigns to subscribers and provide analytics. [...]

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Political web apps: UK Labour’s linking with Facebook and Twitter

UK Labour is taking the General Election very seriously – and is steaming ahead with its online engagement. With the polls showing that around a third of the electorate is still undecided, this outreach is especially important. The newest web offering from UK Labour is a web-app that allows Labour supporters to comment on the [...]

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The new WorkChoices ads

The ACTU Organisers Conference saw the launch of the election year advertisements from Australia’s labour movement. I’ll be writing up some highlights of the Organisers Conference (you can see some of the tweets using the #powerup hashtag) later, including some interesting campaigns that were showcased. In the meantime, here are the ACTU ads.

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Future Proof in Alphington

Future Proof, a new community project aimed at promoting the uptake of solar panels, has launched its pilot program in Alphington. We aim to prepare our communities, homes and businesses for a low-carbon future – to make them future proof – by making Melbourne and Australia leaders in renewable energy use. Future Proof aims to [...]

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Little Britain

UK Labour has unleashed their latest salvo against the Tories, in the form of a poster criticising David Cameron for wanting to turn Britain into an international minnow. It’s interesting to see that the UK election is fought out in large part through creative design used to easily explain complicated issues and policy. What is [...]

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Creative Unions’ First Birthday

Creative Unions is having its very first ever birthday to celebrate a year of promoting and showcasing the very best of the international trade union movement’s campaigns, design and communications. Since we’ve started we’ve showcased over 100 union campaigns, designs and communication tools. Over 600 people from around the world have become fans on Facebook [...]

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Abbott’s “Sarah Palin moment” is good news for Tony Abbott

Tony Abbott has developed more policy on the run while running off his mouth as a speech in front of a bunch of wealthy West Australian industrialists. “There has got to be a system which encourages people to take up work where that work is available and certainly the idea of having people on the [...]

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Touch screens, HTC and union busting

I have recently ordered a HTC Desire (the latest touch screen Android smart phone), so was disappointed to learn that HTC is one of a number of companies engaged in anti-union behaviour. Via LabourStart: Workers at Young Fast Optoelectronics (YFO) in Taiwan urgently request your support for their struggle to defend their union and basic [...]

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Adding Twitter’s @Anywhere

Twitter has launched a new feature, called @Anywhere, for websites to integrate elements of Twitter onto their websites. This allows you to use your Twitter login to join or log into their website, as well as add Twitter-style popups over names that are Twitter accounts (such as @alexanderwhite, @UKLabour, or @climateprogress). This means you can [...]

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Weakened immune system and cognitive impairment is great news for Tony Abbott

In yet another great week for Tony Abbott (@tonyabbottMHR), the Opposition Leader has admitted that he hadn’t really recovered from the Ironman event before embarking on a 1000km bike ride. “To tell you the truth, I don’t think I’m really recovered from the Ironman. I think I needed a longer break. That might have been [...]

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LabourStart’s video of the year and the state of union videos

LabourStart recently held it’s LabourStart Video of the Year competition, which aimed to get showcase the best union videos of the year. Like the LabourStart photo of the year, the shortlisted videos included a few good videos, but really only served to highlight the parlous state of union film making globally. The winning video, a [...]

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