In my line of work, I hear a lot of opinion expressed as fact. A common one is that “union members don’t want our communications to look too corporate”, or “our members want a lot of detail, not a short summary”, or “our slogan should be ’screw the boss’ or something like that”. You get [...]
What union members want from their union’s communications
by Alex on 06. Feb, 2010 in Blog, Campaigning
Guest post over at Stronger Unions
by Alex on 13. Jan, 2010 in Blog, Campaigning
Last November, I was asked to guest post over at Stronger Unions, about Creative Unions – a new project by Atosha McCaw and myself. The topic was the Creative Unions manifesto.
A point that I’d like to underline from my post is this one:
The thing that we noticed was that there was incredible variety in the [...]
Featured on Wootheme’s Showcase
by Alex on 14. Oct, 2009 in Blog, Opinion
Very happy today to discover that Sub Rosa Magazine has been showcased at Woothemes.
I’m an enormous fan of Woothemes, and as I’ve said elsewhere, I not only think their theme designs are great, but their support service is awesome and as is the easy theme upgrades.
I had a great time customising the Wootheme Suit and [...]
Northcote Dog Blog
by Alex on 01. Sep, 2009 in Portfolio
This is an ongoing web project for a dog-owner who wanted a light-hearted website to show pictures of her dogs, as well as allow a blogging facility.
It uses Wordpress based on the free Woothemes Mainstream theme, and has had customisation.
I was responsible for every stage of this web project, from design, creating Twitter accounts, and [...]
Six effective print communications tips for union campaigns
by Alex on 17. Aug, 2009 in Blog, Campaigning
Unions have little hesitation in spending thousands of dollars, in some cases tens of thousands of dollars, on printed communications – leaflets, posters, newsletters, fact-sheets, stickers and so on.
At the start of a campaign, the first thing many union officials think is: “we need an A4 leaflet and a poster for this campaign”. Unfortunately, a [...]
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