{"id":1000,"date":"2010-01-19T14:25:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T14:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morris.cymru\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2023-07-09T21:48:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T20:48:04","slug":"nobonus4rbs-will-fly-and-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morris.cymru\/en\/2010\/01\/nobonus4rbs-will-fly-and-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"NoBonus4RBS will fly and fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are currently 7771 members of the Facebook group &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?v=wall&amp;ref=mf&amp;gid=417490570190\">NoBonus4RBS<\/a>&#8220;, started by Billy Bragg.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s watch it fly and fly.<\/p>\n<p>RATM wasn&#8217;t the first successful Facebook group-based campaign (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/education\/2007\/aug\/30\/highereducation.studentfinance\">HSBC&#8217;s student overdraft charges<\/a>, for instance). But I think it is a good model to emulate.<\/p>\n<p>As I said here about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?v=wall&amp;ref=mf&amp;gid=417490570190\">song-based campaigns<\/a>, negative campaigns can work (by that I mean campaigns that unite against something). News is usually &#8220;negative&#8221;, it&#8217;s very often about conflict.<\/p>\n<p>For campaigners it&#8217;s also about establishing the cause in different places and among different influencers &#8211; not just a Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?v=wall&amp;ref=mf&amp;gid=417490570190\">group<\/a>, but a conversation point, a <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=NoBonus4RBS\">Twitter hashtag\/phrase<\/a>, news stories, blog posts&#8230; Online, everybody can be an influencer, to an extent.<\/p>\n<p>I think the group does act as a hub for the rest of the campaign, a backchannel of sorts. Why? Facebook is dominant, it relies on existing friend\/social connections, joining a group is relatively frictionless and each action in the group (joining, posting something) results in a news item for others to see.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve joined the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?v=wall&amp;ref=mf&amp;gid=417490570190\">group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/8467309.stm\">Billy Bragg is threatening to withhold his tax<\/a> on 31st January in protest. Something&#8217;s got to give&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Oh my, there is a lot of traditional <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/news\/search?aq=f&amp;pz=1&amp;cf=all&amp;ned=us&amp;hl=en&amp;q=billy+bragg\">media coverage<\/a> of Bragg. I wonder if he&#8217;s peaked early and in doing so bypassed the groundswell that could have happened on social media. 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