INTERNATIONAL LABOUR:

ANNOUNCING 'UNIONBOOK':

New from the folks at Labour Start, the online labour solidarity site, comes the social networking site for unionists Union Book. Here's the announcement.

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UnionBook - the social networking website for trade unionists‏:
Labour Start is pleased to announce the launch today of UnionBook - the social networking website for trade unionists.

Unlike other social networking sites, UnionBook (http://www.unionbook.org) is advertising-free, respects your privacy, and is specifically designed to serve trade unionists.

UnionBook offers many features that you and your union will find useful. Among these are:

* Blogs - build your own blog today. Free, with no ads.
* Groups - create a group to support your union and your campaigns.Groups
can have discussion forums and shared documents. They can be public or closed.
They're a very powerful tool.
* Post your profile and sign up your friends.

And we're adding more features all the time.

We know that UnionBook will never be as big as the giant commercial networks like Facebook, but once we have several thousand trade unionists using it, I'm confident that it will become a powerful tool for our movement worldwide.

We're not telling anyone to stop using other social networks. If you are active in Facebook or any of the others, that's fine. But use UnionBook for your trade union activities and see how easy it is to build and form groups, and to publish content online.

Once you've signed up, you will receive an email from us - you must respond to this in order to confirm your email address and activate your account. Our email message may wind up in your junk mail folder - please keep an eye out for it.

Please spend some time on UnionBook.org and explore the possibilities.

And then spread the word -- because together, we can create something amazing here. Thanks. Eric Lee