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8th December 2009 on Online Campaigns, Organising, unions2.0 tagged activism, labor, Organising, social media, unions 2.0

Social media and activism: I wrote an essay… honest!

I’m not too proud of having been a lousy student. I don’t think I ever got an assignment in on time, and really found it a struggle to get much information out of libraries or lectures and into my head. Of course, since leaving uni for the world of work, I’ve found a big sop …

30th September 2009 on unions2.0 tagged activists, Organising, social media, unions 2.0

Social media connecting union activists

And, inspired by the IBEW social media organising vid, I thought I’d try out Prezi.com’s shiny new beta embed feature to show a presentation on the same lines that I did for UNI Global Union a few months ago. BTW, I think Prezi has some good potential for union organisers too – a fair sight …

30th September 2009 on unions2.0, USA tagged IBEW, social media, Unions

Social media success stories for IBEW

Nice little video roundup of some IBEW locals in the States, who are using MySpace, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter in their campaigns. Hat tip AFLCIOnow

12th September 2009 on TUC, unions2.0 tagged Congress, social media, TUC

Congress Voices: Social media mashup at #TUC09

Just arrived in Liverpool, ready for this year’s TUC Congress (www.tuc.org.uk/congress2009), which is worryingly my eighth one (I hope there’s some kind of medal). I’m pretty chuffed with some work I’ve been doing on a separate site Congress Voices, which aims to collate social media coverage of Congress, linking people here at the event with …

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