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Flip cameras or smart phones for unions?

I’ve seen a few union organisers around the place with Flip cameras, and have had a discussion about whether they are a useful tool with Atosha. Flip cameras, for those of you who haven’t stumbled across them yet, are small video cameras that purport to make it very easy to upload content to your computer [...]

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Why I’m joining Labour

UK Labour continue to impress, coming out with a very impressive web app only days after the general election.

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Google Analytics tip for union webmasters

Something I just discovered (much to my annoyance) is that Google Analytics does not allow for easy (in fact, any) migration of account data from one account to another. Google Analytics is a very powerful tool for web masters to get information about their site, content and visitors. Every union website should use Google Analytics [...]

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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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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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Don't prosecute the messenger

I subscribe to the Google Public Policy Blog and get updates every few days. Today, I got sent a story about a case in Italy where three Google executives have been prosecuted for a video of an autistic student being bullied at school. In late 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy filmed and [...]

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Unions and Twitter

The open, conversational nature of social networking offers the perfect elixir to turn this around. Check out my first Media140 blog post, discussing how union leaders can promote themselves, their unions and their activities socially using Twitter.

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Don't get Internode

Having recently moved house, I decided to ditch Optus and go with the 50gb Internode ADSL2+ Naked Plan. Internode promised that it would take a month to install, but they would send the modem and it would be pre-configured, so I could just plug it in and start surfing. After waiting for a month for [...]

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Young people don’t blog

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, [...]

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