Jack Jones died last night, at the age of 96. For those who don’t know the UK labour movement, he was a totem for a great many people – the embodiment of the key virtues of compassion, bravery, integrity, committment and personal modesty. From his life as Labour Party activist (ward secretary at 15, councillor …
A nice and serendipitous link between my last two posts – Having written about ‘Guthrie2.0‘ Jonathan Mann, I stumbled across an older song of his, ‘Interesting Time’ on Blip.fm, and it could have been written for tomorrow’s Put People First G20 march and rally – a slice of pure Guthrism: “Ours is an interesting time. …
Jonathan Mann is writing a two minute pop song every day, based on themes suggested by his friends and visitors to his website. He says he’s doing it to keep active and creative whilst he finds himself unemployed at a pretty tricky time to get work. What’s more surprising is that whatever the theme (Battlestar …
Okay – I’ve succumbed to the inexplicable Twitter frenzy that everyone seems to be afflicted by of late, and will be tweeting away at the Put People First G20 march and rally in London this weekend. It could actually be fun to see how well a crowd of activists are able to report live from …
I’ve got a campaign, yay! Well, if this banker-bothering online lark is good enough for John Prescott, I might as well have a punt too. LabourSpace is a neat idea – a kind of Policy Idol contest, with anyone (Labour supporter or no) able to add a campaign and solicit votes for it. They’ve done …
Found this old link “13 reasons your Facebook account will be deleted” by accident, after stumbling across a post by social marketing trainer Mari Smith, who is finding Facebook is rather unsurprisingly mistaking (?) marketers for spammers and kicking them out even faster than they do with activists. Anyway, Thor Mullen has identified the 13 …
Get the Send your message to G20 world leaders widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! I’m going on the Put People First march on 28 March in London. Scores of unions, NGOs, faith groups, uncle tom cobbleys and all will be converging on Hyde Park ahead of the G20 London Summit. Should …
At a Labour New Media breakfast yesterday, which gave a really interesting insight into how Labour hope to change their campaigning to make the most of the new environment. Also the launch of LabourList, and a chance to witness a broad section of the left blogohemisphere’s ecosystem – which I think is a post in …
Everyone wants a bit of Obama at the moment, and the contractors behind his fantastic online campaign network, Blue State Digital, are very much flavour of the IT month. Come and listen to BSD’s Matthew McGreggor on how he/they did it, and what it might mean for unions at an evening event in London this …
Bang on time to demonstrate why we need a service like UnionBook, comes a scary story on how video network YouTube has joined Facebook in the union-banning hall of shame. Canadian union PSAC were in dispute with Canada Post at the end of last year over sickness benefits, when some grassw00ts activists made a parody …