UNI Communicators' Forum

Information Technology opens up a range of efficiency savings for unions' communications, campaigning and membership systems, especially with the open sourcei software movement, a community developing high quality free software. How can unions benefit from using these new approaches?

There are too many videos on YouTubei describing SecondLife (about 130.000). Here some of the most interesting...

INTRODUCTION TO SECOND LIFEi

1.- English translation

2.- Traduction française

1.- English

I have realized that in several ocasions, when you atttach images to your articles, you usually upload a very very big image (I'm talking about 2500 pixels wide and 1.8 MBytes), and you just "resize" with your mouse in the HTMLi Editor of your administration. That means that your page had to "load" about 2 Megabytes in order to be displayed. That means several minutes with a slow connection.

Clever idea from Eric Lee. LabourStart's custom system is written in phpi, Perl, javascript and MySQL, and there are a lot of people out there with skills in those areas. Eric needs help occasionally with little technical problems, where his own knowledge of coding isn't enough to work out what's wrong. So he's started posting the problems up on a blogi for LabourStart supporters to advise him on what might be the best solution - Kind of like an IT help desk in reverse.

see pictures here:

http://www.uniglobalunion.org/uniafrican.nsf/0/300708_EN_3B

versión en español: http://www.comfia.net/html/11290.html

Trade union Comfia CCOO in Spain launched their http://www.comfia.tv website last week, proudly portraying their first show July 22nd “without a General Secretary’s opening speech”.

At the moment, comfia.tv is a weekly show, but Miquel Loriz, Head of Communications foresees this to become a live alternative to traditional media in the near future.

Free PDF to Word Doc Converter is such a desktop document conversion tool to convert Adobe PDF file to Mcirosoft Word Doc file - and it's totally for FREE! (free registration code)

The program can extract text, images, shapes from PDF file to Word Doc file and preserve the layout. It can convert all the pages, or any pages range of the PDF file.