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 […]
Continue readingUsing 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 […]
Continue readingThe 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 […]
Continue readingThe Cyberunions Podcast: Episode Two
Welcome to the second episode of the Cyberunions Podcast. A ‘strike’ against Skype. Cyberunions Talk Show Episode 2 ogg Cyberunions Talk Show Episode 2 mp3 Remember, you can subscribe to the show here for Ogg and here for mp3 Show notes As Skype disappears behind Microsoft’s walled garden, Free Software activists are working on alternatives […]
Continue readingThe Cyberunions Podcast: Episode One
We are really pleased to be able to announce a new feature on Cyberunions: the first of what we hope will be a weekly podcast. The Cyberunions Show is hosted by myself, and MV, a trade union activist based in the Boston area. Throughout the show, we will be testing and talking about technology for […]
Continue readingFrom Luddism 2.0 to Cyberunions
It’s time for unions to embrace the information age and develop an online, global, networked social movement unionism.
Continue readingOpen source trade unions
Is Open Source organising the way forward for trade unions? Some people seem to think so, but are we even sure what it means? Trade unions in the West have been in decline since the late 1970s. This is because the capitalist crisis of the early 70s was caused in part by a powerful labour […]
Continue readingCase study: Unite Scottish organisers and technology
In organising we need to be a wee bit off the wall because it works. – Finance sector seconded rep, Female, 31-40 There are a number of different organising models within the trade union movement. The Unite model sees organising as a specialist function that is ‘strategic,sectoral and global’, and was inspired by the ‘Justice […]
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