Posts Tagged ‘social networking’

Social media connecting union activists

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

And, inspired by the IBEW social media organising vid, I thought I’d try out Prezi.com’s shiny new beta embed feature to show a presentation on the same lines that I did for UNI Global Union a few months ago.

BTW, I think Prezi has some good potential for union organisers too – a fair sight more compelling than the death-by-Powerpoint you get at many union meetings, and easy for people to use outside the context of the meeting.

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How to get kicked out of Facebook

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Found this old link “13 reasons your Facebook account will be deleted” by accident, after stumbling across a post by social marketing trainer Mari Smith, who is finding Facebook is rather unsurprisingly mistaking (?) marketers for spammers and kicking them out even faster than they do with activists.

Anyway, Thor Mullen has identified the 13 top reasons why Facebook’s customer service robots would be alerted to your (entirely genuine) networking activities on the service, and either serve you a warning or a faceban. Pretty much what you’d expect in terms of ToS violations and power user traffic peaks, but worth reading before you set foot in a third party social network to spread an activist message. (more…)

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UnionBook: A new home for online activism

Friday, January 30th, 2009

UnionBook is a brand new social network, but one specifically for international union activists and supporters.

You probably have accounts already on Facebook, YouTube, flickr and a dozen more, and are wondering why on earth we would need a dedicated service for unions.

Two reasons… (more…)

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I’ll have IP please Bob: Blockerbusters

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Gov2.0 advocate Steph Gray is trying to find out how many work computer users in the UK have access to social media blocked for personal or professional use. It’s a widespread issue, thanks to the concern of many employers at the Facebook work-crack media hype of the last two years.

Some employers block social networking because they’re scared of digital nasties in the network if they let their staff use internet resources that are reputedly riddled with viruses and phishers. Some block rich media because they worry they’ll need a mortgage for the bandwidth once their staff hear about YouTube. Some over-block by accident because they bought an out-of-the-box filter that they don’t know how to tweak, and that gets in the way almost as much as it helps.

Some of them though block social media where they can’t see a work relevance, because they don’t trust their staff to use this responsibly, and think they’ll do the digital equivalent of window gazing all day if you let them. (more…)

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How do you solve a problem like Blackadder?

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Remember Derek? 3,000 Facebook unionists came together to get our Canadian pal reinstated in the good book, after he was banned for making friends too quickly, whilst trying to evaluate Facebook for unions and campaigners.

Well, now he’s out on his cyber-ear again. He was kicked this time, apparently with no hope of reinstatement as his account has been totally deleted, because he’d answered too many messages of support (not sent messages, just answered ones he’d been sent by friends). And it opens up a whole can of worms for unionists and campaigners. (more…)

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