When unions should blog
Friday, December 19th, 2008A fun seminar at the TUC the other week, on how unions might be able to use blogging to influence public policy debate. Great economic policy blog case studies and tips from Tom of Labour and Capital and Richard of Tax Research, and a side order of demagoguic simplification from Paul Never Trust a Hippy, who very thoughtfully wrote up some well-worth-a-peek notes to share around.
I got my own 5 min waffle in, and this is pretty much what I said. Blogging is a technology (basically the combination of 3 ideas: simple and freely available publishing, loose networks and conversation through comments and links, and simple republishing and syndication via RSS to help people follow a blog), which lends itself very well to six scenarios that unions might well find themselves in.
