June 2011 – Cyberunions

The Cyberunions Podcast: Episode Six

Testing The Feedback Loop Subscribe: Download: Cyberunions Talk Show Ogg Cyberunions Talk Show Mp3 Guatemala (0:01) Connection back to boston. The excessive use of Windows in internet cafes Learning español Elmigrante Spanish School Walton’s Web development (2:20) Skype Report? Jingle (6:58) Still looking for alternatives….reason are clear now – privacy & control over communications – […]

The Cyberunions Podcast: Episode five

The wiki and Creative Commons rant Subscribe to our weekly podcast. Cyberunions Talk Show Ogg Cyberunions Talk Show Mp3 Show notes Intro Stephen’s trip to Guatemala Flattr is crowdsourced microfinance If you like the show, please Flattr us 3:06 Sharing good practice – tribalism vs pluralism The SEIU union call centre experience It didn’t […]

The Cyberunions Podcast: Episode four

Building links with the Co-operative Movement. Cyberunions Talk Show Ogg Cyberunions Talk Show Mp3 You can subscribe to the show here for Ogg and here for mp3 Show notes Intro We test alternatives to Skype – not entirely successfully Linphone – looks promising, but… Ekiga – we couldn’t get either of these to work Both […]

Using Facebook for union organising and campaigns

If you’re using Facebook for your organising, you need an exit strategy. For a lot of unions, online organising starts and ends with Facebook. Many union communicators are fairly uncritical of Facebook, and seem to think it’s important to get people to ‘like’ your union’s Facebook page. Clearly Facebook is important, because many of your […]

The Cyberunions Podcast: Episode Three

Building a website for your branch, local or campaign Don’t Broadcast Engage Cyberunions Talk Show Ogg Cyberunions Talk Show Mp3 Remember, you can subscribe to the show here for Ogg and here for mp3 Show notes Intro Alternatives to Skype Google Talk – jabber, jingle and XMPP Audacity – recording tool 2:00 Websites and communications strategy […]