UNI Communicators' Forum

Des nouvelles syndicales mondiales seront audiodiffusées sur internet, le site web "RadioLabour" diffusera un programme hebdomadaire de 20 minutes intitulé "Solidarity news". Le programme sera diffusé en direct tous les lundis matin.

• A small but growing number of trade unionists use Twitteri, though few are intensive users.
• Only a tiny number use Twitter for trade union purposes.
• Re-tweeting, the Twitter equivalent of forwardig an email, is not widely used.
• Of all the other social networks, only Facebooki is widely used and giant sites like MySpacei and Bebo are off union members's radar.
• Unions that do use Twitter are probably not very good at communicating this fact to members, as most did not know if their unions used Twitter.

Here's a copy of my presentation on social networking for unions - both what union activists are doing with commercial social networks, and what unions could do to make social networking tools for our own activists.

A challenge to us from social media consultant Paulie of Memeserver.co.uk. He thinks unions are better positioned than anyone to make use of social media, due to the inherantly social nature of our organisations.

As mutual support organisations, our members will want to pull together with us online too, and we'll be able to leverage loads of lovely 2.0 buzz, giving real validity to our work online in a way corporates would have to fake. That's the theory anyway:

An easy approach to web 2.0i tools for unions. What are they, what do they do and how can they help our movement?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thiPyvwJ6Ac

Also, check out this link! Each web 2.0 tool is explained in 2-3 minutes in the easiest way for people to understand: http://www.commoncraft.com/show