Unions are rarely, if ever, on the bleeding edge of technology. If you’re ever nostalgic to see what computers looked like several years ago, just wander into a trade union office. For many reasons (and…
The Wobblies taught the labour movement to sing. I was reminded of this a couple of years ago in the city of Inchon, South Korea. I was part of an international delegation of people from…
The annual labor website of the year competition — which the IWW won four years ago — has led me to discover many strange and wonderful websites. Some of these are more strange than wonderful….
I have been thinking about the changes that have taken place in the world in the last decade or so, and in particular the effect of the Internet. And I’ve been thinking about Iraq. Let…
I was recently invited to attend the general conference of the International Federation of Workers Education Associations (IFWEA), which was held in Albufeira, Portugal in early October. I knew what the highlight of my two…
Back during the dot.com boom, people were thinking that the Internet would be good for everything. You could sell books on it, that was obvious. But you could also sell pet food, and groceries, and…
In the mid-1990s, all journalists writing about the net were focussing on the
In a previous column, I made the case that the Internet has made campaigning much easier, cheaper, faster and more effective than ever before. All of us who are connected to the net are by…
Given a choice between having a website or an electronic mailing list, I always tell people to choose the mailing list. The web is a fanastic tool — don’t get me wrong. But there’s nothing…
If we want our unions to grow, we have to recruit thousands of new members. Many of those new members will not speak English as their native language. If we want to use the web…