The wiki and Creative Commons rant
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Intro
- Stephen’s trip to Guatemala
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3:06 Sharing good practice – tribalism vs pluralism
- The SEIU union call centre experience
- It didn’t work – this example needs to be shared, not hidden
- It failed because it was a top down strategy that ignored feedback from below
- Call centres are part of a failed servicing strategy – we need to return to an organising model
- Expensive techno fixes are a bad idea – be strategic with resources and share good practice
10:00 Creative Commons - a great way to license and share content
- You can choose how you want your work licensed – some rights reserved
- Creative commons creates a legal framework to protect the commons
- We’ve had hundreds of years of privatisation of the commons – now we are seeing the enclosure of the digital commons
- Cyberunions is Creative Commons licensed – help yourself to our content, as long as you say where you got it
- We don’t think unions should use copyright – it’s a dated and regressive economic mode
15:00 Tools – using wikis to share good practice
- Can unions share their research into corporations?
- Wouldn’t a union wiki be a good idea – an ideas repository for union researchers?
- Develop an online international resource on fighting the same company in different locations
- Document successful and unsuccessful campaign strategies with critical examination of what failed to work
- We should open source the production of ideas too – an open source research process
- Stephen’s wiki rant
- Start by using Wikipedia – add useful content to the Organized Labor portal
- Do some work – make sure the union pages on wikipedia are good quality
- National unions can also create their own wikis using MediaWiki – these can be private and password protected if necessary
- Too much industrial relations material is hidden behind the paywall in expensive journals
- The Open Courseware Consortium takes a Creative Commons approach to education
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