Friends, please post and circulate widely. Thanks, Matt Noyes
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The 2005 AUD Best Rank-and-File Website Contest

AUD is running the Second Annual Best Rank-and-File Website contest
and we want your favorite websites in it!

Like the last contest, this one has three goals:

1) to spotlight the great work that rank-and-file activists are doing
and make your work known to a broader audience,

2) to promote the use of the internet as an organizing tool for union
reformers, and,

3) to encourage discussion among rank-and-file webstewards about what
works and what doesn't -- both technically and in terms of
organizing -- so we can all be more effective.

This year's contest has three new elements:

Blogs welcome! We have expanded the contest to include blogs and
websites based on content management systems.

The inside dope. This year's contestants have an edge: AUD has
published "50 Guidelines to Building an Effective Rank-and-File
Website" available online along with sample website homepage. The
Guidelines grew out of the criteria we used to assess websites in the
first contest. Forewarned is fore-armed. Feel free to use the guide to
tweak your website and improve your odds.

People's choice. Our panel of judges will decide the results of
the contest. But, we will also set up an online vote for the contest, open to
anyone and not restricted to our criteria. We will announce the results of both
the judged contest and the online vote.

For more contest details and the online entry form see the AUD website
(www.uniondemocracy.org).

Thanks and good luck, Matt Noyes AUD internet coordinator

"The GREAT contests for web sites run by LabourStart and by the AUD
are the "Oscar ceremonies" of the Labor Cyber World." - Art Shostak,
author of CyberUnion and the CyberUnion Handbook.

Note: you do not have to be an AUD member to enter; there is no entry
fee.