What to do when email campaigns no longer work
For more than a decade now, trade unions and others have used email as a powerful tool for online campaigning. Despite some notable successes, it is now becoming clearer by the day that this tool…
Defense in depth: A strategy to stop spam that actually works
Spam is killing off email and threatening the very future of the internet. Surveys are showing that current net users are switching off to get away from unsolicited commercial email. Millions more are reluctant to…
Iraqi unions: a new beginning
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…
The problem with Internet Explorer
A few years ago, when some of us noticed that Microsoft had essentially taken over the Internet, we were worried. Among other worries, we feared that a near-complete monopoly by Microsoft would mean that technological…
Throw-away websites
They are what the Dutch web activist Oskar van Rijswijk calls “throw-away websites”
Online campaigning and labour education
The following article was submitted to Workers Education, the quarterly bulletin of the International Federation of Workers Education Associations (IFWEA), at the request of the editor, at the end of June 2003. It did not…
Behind the times: IFWEA’s website, once a pioneer, now lags
I’ll be speaking on Friday at the congress of the International Federation of Workers Education Associations (IFWEA) — which was the first international labour institution to have a website, back in 1994. Unfortunately, the website…
Mozilla Thunderbird – free, open source email client
I’ve downloaded and begun using Mozilla Thunderbird today. Continue reading to find out what I think of it . . .
Four new ways to contact me
Using Trillian Pro 2.0, an instant messaging (IM) client that allows me to connect to all the major networks, I am now once again online and can be reached on any of the following networks:…
Looking for a union job – online
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…