Good post today at JP Rangaswami’s Confused of Calcutta. He’s been reading Pew Internet’s latest report on post-election voter engagement (always one reason his excellent blog gets my gratitude, as he pulls out so many great nuggets from Pew Internet and saves me having to read them all! Now, if he’d just stop going on …
Welcome to my latest attempt at long-tail-stretching – laborgeek.org, a reading list for Web2.0 technology in the international labour movement. This isn’t really a site in its own right – All it does is signpost the way to current resources that you might find useful. Of course, this is working on my slightly unconventional definition …
A fun seminar at the TUC the other week, on how unions might be able to use blogging to influence public policy debate. Great economic policy blog case studies and tips from Tom of Labour and Capital and Richard of Tax Research, and a side order of demagoguic simplification from Paul Never Trust a Hippy, …
There are now a whopping 100 UK trade union related blogs in the TIGMOO.co.uk blog directory, so I thought I’d do a little analysis of them, and see what it tells us about the state of union blogging.
It will be a tense day in Harare today as members of the ZCTU and other Zimbabwean civil society organisations assemble symbolically outside their banks to protest at the management of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe under governor Gideon Gono. The Bank is limiting cash withdrawals to $500,000 a week, though under mounting civil pressure …
Nominations must have opened early for the AFL-CIO’s Bad Boss awards, as It looks like there’s a clear winner already. Dollar Tree are a discount store in the US, like our Poundland. Single mum Taneka Talley worked there, doing long shifts to save up for college fees for her 8 year old son Larry. Then …
Urgent campaign action Farzad Kamangar is an Iranian teacher, unionist and human rights activist, charged by the Revolutionary Court of Iran with being a terrorist (through alleged links to the PKK) and sentenced to death on no convincing evidence. The international teachers’ union federation, Education International, has learned that Farzad has been taken from his …
An interesting request from Derek in Canada. They have a dispute going on at Toronto’s York University that looks to be shaping up as a bunch of milestones in online union activism – all of them ++ungood.
Comedy flash genii Doghorse and Eclectech have outdone themselves with this ludicrously catchy tune about the perils of your office PC. It’s promoting Not Safe For Work? – workSMART’s new interactive training thingy on Internet security.
PBwiki are a hosted business wiki startup in California. They want new staff, and my guess is their recruitment brief is to get people who are thoroughly plugged into Web2.0, and people who know their technical stuff. So they don’t take out an ad. They make a placard that says “Do Not Post Pictures Of …