For my Project 52 post, I thought I’d comment about a recent Pew report has come to my attention via DownloadSquad that says that young people are blogging less: Pew Internet released a report yesterday called Social Media and Young Adults that shows teen blogging down by 50% over the past four years, even as [...]
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Highrise unions?
Just found an interesting post by Eric Lee suggesting that union organisers use the CRM (customer relationship management) tool Highrise: Highrise is what one user calls a “Rolodex on steroids”. At its core is a contact manager. But it is also a task manager too, and an events calendar. It’s also completely free of charge, [...]
The iPad letdown
After months of hype, the legions of Apple fans are experiencing a kind of collective “meh”, as they realise that the iPad could never meet their impossible expectations. I’m no fan of Apple, but even I watched the fever-pitch rumours about the iPad with interest – perhaps they really could pull off something incredible. Of [...]
Use your union’s Facebook page to build your email list
Facebook is a tremendous communications tool for unions – especially white-collar unions – and with only a small amount of technical know-how, it can also be super-charged for organising and campaigning. If you haven’t already, check my earlier articles about unions using Facebook: Best practice use of Facebook for unions and Using Facebook as an [...]
Email is the “killer app” for online campaigning
The Massachusetts election has blown open the mainstream media’s infatuation with social networking tools, with headlines like “the iphone app that killed Coakley“. On the techblogs, there is also detailed examination of new tools that aided the winning Mass. Senate candidate Scott Brown. I am hardly immune to the temptation of writing about the exiting [...]
Collaborative online tools for political campaigning
You don’t need to be a big national campaign to use the myriad suite of free online tools. With the analysis of the Brown victory in Massachusetts continuing, it is emerging that this state-level campaign made extensive use of Google Apps: But something else has Google reps particularly chuffed: how much the Brown campaign, they [...]
Massachusetts election outcome shows dangers of incumbency
On Tuesday, I wrote that the Democrats would be the victims of incumbency. In Massachusetts, a strongly Democratic state, the Dems control the state Legislature, most or all of the Congressional seats, and now all but one of the Senate seats. With Obama in the White House, and the Democrats controlling the US Congress and [...]
Using Google Docs in your union campaign
Google Documents is a free online service that provides word processing and spreadsheets that are stored online (in the “cloud”). Google Docs basically allows you to mimic Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. The main feature (in my view) is that it is online, so it can be accessed from any computer connected to the Internet, [...]
Migrating to Google Mail
Macquarie University has announced that it will migrate its staff email accounts over to Gmail: About 14 Australian universities have already outsourced their student email to Gmail or Microsoft’s Live@edu service, but this week Macquarie became the first to migrate staff to the so-called cloud in a deal with Gmail. … However, the university was [...]
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