Why a website is not an online magazine
Trade union websites, including those of teachers’ unions, are about to enter their third generation.
Beyond the website: The experience of LabourStart’s labour newswire
It’s one thing to have a website that a few hundred or thousand members of your union visit. It’s quite another to have a newswire service of your own, with your content appearing simultaneously on…
Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics, and Website Hit Counts
No one really knows how many people are connected to the Internet these days but one good estimate is about 300 million. How many of these are trade unionists? Here one would only be guessing,…
The Last of the Webmasters?
A very long time ago (in Internet time, that is), websites were designed and maintained by people known as “webmasters”. These were the people who had the skills that organizations needed if they wanted a…
About Eric Lee
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Labour’s Year in Review 2002
It’s that time of year again — time to receive my annual message from Peter, asking me to do a “global year in review”. This time, I thought it might be interesting to take a…
Beyond the website: unions need to start thinking about software
In the beginning, trade unions created websites.
The TUC’s new website
The TUC has launched a new website and, to come right to the point, it’s a huge improvement over the previous one. And it’s about time.
The software we use
Is there such a thing as politically-correct computer software?
How do you say ‘globalise resistance’ in Urdu?
One sees the slogan ‘globalise resistance’ more and more these days, and yet the reality is that the labour movement and left continues to use many of the old techniques and technologies which so colosally…