Creative Unions » twitter

More Twitter tips for trade unions

alex — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:00:15 +0000

Creative Unions follows a lot of union Twitter accounts, as well as other “benchmark” Twitter users. As more and more unions start to use Twitter, we think it’s especially important that trade unions use it effectively.

Over at AlexWhite.org, there’s three more Twitter tips that union communications officers may find useful. The three pieces of advice are summed up as:

Watch out for spammers
Beware of your Follow:Follower ratio
Don’t just have a feed from your website’s RSS

What do you think? Do you have any other advice for unions using Twitter?

Words rather than pictures

Atosha — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:16:40 +0000

For those who haven’t seen these we’ve been doing some writing about the use of twitter by unions and about multi skilling and graphic design in unions. We are planning to run a series of these going into different issues around campaigning and communications in unions. Feel free to add your comments and to disagree.

Unions on Twitter

alex — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:07:08 +0000

Is Twitter a useful tool for unions?

There are already a range of unions that “tweet”. Many union officials and union members are on Twitter. Labourstart uses Twitter extensively. There is even a union Twitter group.

US union communications site, “Communicate or Die”, gives some ideas for how unions can use Twitter:

1) Set up your website to receive incoming RSS feeds from the picket lines or other major events like conferences.
2) Labor leaders can twitter their daily activities to keep members apprised of what leadership is working on and fighting for.
3) If you don’t have time or staff to write quality blog posts, use twitter to keep the community up to date on the issues and concerns of your union.
4) Set up a bogus Twitter account using the name of a hated CEO or manager. Post entertaining items like “Don’t know why our workers are so upset at my salary. Don’t think they realize all the maintenance needed on 100 foot yachts.”
5) Post up the minute bargaining updates to the website right from the bargaining table.

What do you think? Waste of time or useful organising tool? Leave a comment below.