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Corporate Panel on Social Networking Has Positive and Negative Lessons for Labor

Submitted by Jason Pramas on Sat, 11/01/2008 - 10:29pm

What is the marketing industry telling corporate leadership about social networking? We're as curious about that question at Prometheus as many other labor movement folks are; so we listened to a podcast from a recent conference called Corporate Communications in a Web 2.0 for some answers. And the panel led by event host Mark Ragan, CEO of Ragan Communications, was certainly not shy about providing them.

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Got Labor Tech?

Submitted by Jason Pramas on Wed, 10/29/2008 - 5:46pm

Greetings, CorD fans. While it's gratifying to see people other than Steve or I posting to this site, I thought I should chime in and just say that I haven't disappered for the last 3 weeks. I've just been busy with various Prometheus projects, and then sick for the last week with the fairly nasty cold going around now that weather's getting colder.

I'll be back shortly with new stuff. But if any of you all have labor tech projects going on - especially in unions at any level - you should let me know by commenting to this post. I'm looking to interview some folks on new developments, and how they're working out.

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Rules for official union forums

Submitted by Matt Noyes on Wed, 10/29/2008 - 12:28pm

There has been discussion here of posting guidelines for official union websites. Think of an official union forum, members-only. Here is a specific example and some commentary -- what do you think?

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Labourtech 2008 Canada in Toronto November 7,8 & 9

Submitted by solidarity on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 2:20pm

Labourtech Canada will be held in Toronto on November 7, 8 & 9 and will include labor communicators and labor media activists from throughout Canada.

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Labortech 2008 In San Francisco

Submitted by solidarity on Sat, 10/18/2008 - 1:01am

Labortech 2008 will be having it's semi-annual conference this coming December 5, 6 &7 in San Francisco at the University of San Francisco. The conference brings together labor media, technology and communication activists from throughout the US.

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Interesting Discussion on the Internet, Unions and Democracy at Union Review

Submitted by Jason Pramas on Mon, 10/06/2008 - 5:29pm

Similar to a couple of my recent posts on unions, the Internet and democracy, our sibling site, Union Review, is having an extended discussion on the same themes.

Check it out at http://unionreview.com/help-brother-out%2C-will-ya. and feel free to jump right in ...

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Labor TV?

Submitted by Bill Bumpus on Mon, 10/06/2008 - 11:00am

I recently had my cable service "upgraded" to include another 100 or so channels of (mostly) absolute dreck.  Got me to thinking about the idea of a national labor channel, which I think has been floated by the ILCA in the past but never taken up by any big unions or labor bodies, as far as I know.

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Does All This New Technology Really Help Unions?

Submitted by Jason Pramas on Sat, 10/04/2008 - 11:59pm

It's probably healthy to have moments of self-doubt from time-to-time, and I'm experiencing one now; so I thought it would be appropriate to share it with Communicate or Die viewers since the doubt in question is about the efficacy of the kinds of technology I generally discuss here. It occurred to me to explore this issue while doing my weekly search for cool new stuff that might be of use to unions, and feeling like ... blah. Like, how many new tools can we use? How many different ways to communicate with people can we handle? Is all this stuff a distraction from more important matters for unions?

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Any ubuntu users out there?

Submitted by Matt Noyes on Sun, 09/28/2008 - 8:52am

Just curious if CorD types are using the Ubuntu Linux distribution and if you are promoting it. Seems like a good fit, certainly for the techie types here and open source advocates, but also increasingly good for users with no experience beyond Windows or Mac. I bought a Dell xps with ubuntu pre-installed and after a little initial apprehension am finding it a real pleasure to work with. I'm new to Linux, so I'm a good test case of the usability of Ubuntu for newbies. If you want to check it out you can download the software, burn a CD and run it on your PC without installing it. (Haven't tried that, mine was preinstalled.)

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Screen Captures Are a Snap With Jing

Submitted by Jason Pramas on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 11:57pm
There are various pieces of software (and screen and browser widgets) that allow users easy ways to take screenshots and even video captures of anything that can be displayed on a computer screen. But a new free service called Jing - www.jingproject.com - stands a cut above the rest in some important respects and seems worth trying out.
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Anybody using Organic Groups?

Submitted by Matt Noyes on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 11:25pm

I'm looking for info, thoughts on using the Organic Groups modules in Drupal -- has anyone used them? Or decided not to for specific reasons?

 

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Towards an "Open Source Culture" in the U.S. Labor Movement

Submitted by Jason Pramas on Fri, 09/19/2008 - 4:57pm

Over my first several weeks working for this blog's sponsor, Prometheus Labor Communications, I've had occasion to talk to quite a few web managers for various unions about how they'd like to make use of the growing array of technologies at our disposal to communicate with their members. And I've been somewhat dismayed to find that many unions are not especially interested in making use of the many interactive tools on offer to better facilitate two-way communication between union leadership and rank-and-file members.

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Internet Protocol TV Worth a Look

Submitted by Jason Pramas on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 11:54pm

Over the last few years, as fast internet connections have become the standard for more and more Americans, software has been developed by a number of companies and at least one defunct non-profit project to allow live video streaming (generally from broadcast satellite feeds) to people's computers for no additional money down.

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Steve Sloan on Use of Media by Unions

Submitted by Matt Noyes on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 5:50pm

Steve Sloan is a shop steward in Chapter 307 of CSUEU, the California State University Emplyees Union at SJSU, San Jose State University, San Jose, California. He uses cell phone photos/blogs to raise health and safety issues and videopodcasts to share interviews with union officers about issues and debates within the union. In this blog entry (from his My Unions blog), Steve advocates using the newest of the new media.

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Take Back Labor Day ... Plus 2

Submitted by Jason Pramas on Wed, 09/03/2008 - 5:00pm

A few weeks back we encouraged labor bloggers to take part in the "Take Back Labor Day" action - which involved agreeing to post blog entries on September 1st about what Labor Day really means. Funny thing, though, to participate would have meant working on Labor Day - which this blogger couldn't quite get himself to do.

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