I write a lot about good campaign websites and landing pages, and I get often get asked for examples of what I mean. This post is a showcase of four of the best union campaign websites out there at the moment. One is a campaign that I had direct involvement in, while the others encapsulate [...]
In Australia, around 2 million working people are members of a union. Across the world, tens of millions more have joined their union. With the myriad public campaigns, collective bargaining, and workplace activity that unions engage in competing for attention from workers and the community, it is essential that unions effectively community and market their [...]
Why has your union joined the social media world? Some unions may be there because of the motivations of a single person — the secretary, or an eager organiser or communications officer. They join because they feel they must. Some unions may be there to broadcast their activities – they don’t want a conversation, just [...]
At the end of September, Facebook announced massive changes to pages, profiles and its “social graph”. For union communicators just getting the hang of setting up a Facebook page for their union or their campaign, what do these changes mean? Thankfully, Wildfire, a social media marketing company, has produced a good summary of the changes [...]
I am releasing my third free e-book, which compiles my articles on campaign websites, online design and effective Internet campaigining. This e-book, Online Campaigning: A primer for unions shows you how to get the most from Web-based communication and campaigns for your union. By campaigning online, you can speak directly to your members, supporters and [...]
The sickening anti-reform campaign being run by the gambling industry against the introduction of pre-commitment technology is utterly appalling to all people with a conscience. The pokies industry is even more pernicious because it relies on neurological manipulation to encourage addiction. The Australians who become problem gamblers are being purposely exploited by the pokies industry, [...]
All unions, progressive organisations and political parties produce advertisements (or collateral) — whether posters, brochures, leaflets, billboards and so on. We can easily measure whether the collateral has been successful by whether the intended audience actually stops and consumes the ad. “Where the eye stops, the sale begins” is an old advertising maxim. With unions [...]
Today, Create Jobs for USA was launched by Starbucks and the Opportunity Finance Network – aimed at attracting donations from the general public to fund job creation programs run by OFN. Whatever your views about US-style philanthropy programs run by large corporations, their JobsforUSA website is an almost pitch-perfect example of a campaign landing page. 1. [...]
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