Marketing Team Notes – September 19, 2018

Marketing Team Vision

Our vision for the Marketing Team is to be the go-to resource on strategy and content for other WordPress teams. We reiterate our mission each week so that everyone who is new to the team understands what our goals are. This helps with onboarding.

We’d love you to join the Marketing Team. If you have any questions or feel lost (all of us do at some point), please feel free to pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” any of us in SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. We’re here to help guide and mentor you. xoxo ~ Bridget (@gidgey on Slack)

Getting Involved

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in, comment on posts, and participate in meetings and on projects. And, yes, you can add yourself to any Trello Card you’d like to work on.

Today’s Meeting

Slack Timestamp:  https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1537368940000100

Today’s notes taken by:  

Meeting attended by:  gidgey, mcdwayne   harryjackson1221, miker, Siobhanseija, Yashwardhan Rana, @webcommsat , Josh B, Yvettesonneveld, Meher, westcounty.media

Published

https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2018/09/20/slide-deck-for-meetups-contribute-to-wordpress/

In Progress

Polyglots Infographic Copy (3 infographics) (9/19/18)

TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing.: https://trello.com/c/cTnKhdtE/196-polyglots-infographic-copy-3-infographics

Task-lead: @gidgey

  • What is going well?  
  • What is at risk?  
  • What can someone new in Marketing help with?

Write a “How to create a WordPress business website” tutorial on WP Marketing (9/19/18)

Trello: https://trello.com/c/ZvNV8hpj/194-write-a-how-to-create-a-wordpress-business-website-tutorial

Task-lead: @joelobo

  • What is going well?  Please see update from last week. Work will resume on this card at the end of next week.
  • What is at risk?
  • What can someone new in Marketing help with?  

Video interviews with WordPressers (9/19/18)

Trello Link: https://trello.com/c/ke8Uq4jV/166-video-interviews

Task-Lead: @webcommsat

  • What is going well?  
  1. i) Interviews at WCLDN
    We now have the interview files from WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. London. Is there a Marketing Team logo we can use in addition to the WCLDN, WPLDN logos that will appear on these videos?

They are on  secure folder and the only copy. Please DM me if you are able to work on editing, subtitling these files.

  1. ii) Interviews done at WCBELFAST
    Mark S is continuing to work on these and is carrying out the basic edit due to recording issues from the kit used. When this has been completed, we will be able to work on the final editing, subtitling of these files etc.
    A Marketing logo, if available, would also be helpful for this.
  • What is at risk? N/A
  • What can someone new in Marketing help with?  As above, anyone able to assist existing volunteers. We need experienced video editors and those able to subtitle.

Creating a social media plan for WordCamps (9/19/18)

Trello Link: https://trello.com/c/Z9uQJlQk/21-creating-a-social-media-plan-for-wordcamps

Task-Lead: @webcommsat Formerly: @DustinNay

  • What is going well?  We have received another batch of items and queries from different WordCamps.
  • What is at risk?
  • What can someone new in Marketing help with? Help work on the assets and examples we have received.

End-User Persona Doc on WP Marketing  (9/19/18)

Trello Link: https://trello.com/c/xOu9de8h/75-end-user-persona-doc

Task Lead: @RachelPage / @gidgey

Dwayne: MOVED THIS CARD TO BACKLOG

  • What is going well?  As I last updated, there have been some edits made to the document and some conversation regarding the blog. However, due to a product launch at work I have been unable to dedicate any time to this right now.
  • What is at risk?  Nothing is at risk, but because of my busy schedule I am not sure how much time I can dedicate to this right now.
  • What can someone new in Marketing help with? Completing document edits and writing the first draft of the blog post.
    [SEE UPDATE]

Curated list of marketing videos on WordPress.TV  (9/19/18)

Trello: https://trello.com/c/N7me1xaT/145-marketing-videos-resource-on-wordpresstv

Task-lead: @webcommsat

  • What is going well? We continue to have lot more people adding to this list either as reviewers or subtitlers.
  • What is at risk? Need more people to help edit the commentaries coming in.
  • What can someone new in Marketing help with?  Add your suggestions to the spreadsheet, choose a video to subtitle or help review comments if you have an expertise in the topic.

Links to Meetups, WordCamps & Contributor Day Resources on https://make.wordpress.org page  (9/19/18)

https://trello.com/c/IRCgZU8N/189-links-to-meetups-wordcamps-contributor-day-resources-on-https-makewordpressorg-page

Task Lead: @westcounty.media

  • What is going well?  
  • What is at risk?  
  • What can someone new in Marketing help with?

Contributor interviews WCEU18 (9/19/18)

Trello: https://trello.com/c/f0oPWl4K/190-contributor-interviews-wceu18

Task-lead: @Dushanthipiek1
Siobhanseija: spoke to Dushanthi about this today as she probably won’t be in for another couple of weeks

webcommsat: I was trying to get hold of a logo for her too. I will cover this on one of the other cards.

siobhanseija : The video is finished, thanks to some hard work by @Yashwardhan Rana (thank you!). All that’s left is subtitling. We’ve submitted the video to WordPress.tv and are waiting for it to be accepted. Once that happens, I’ll add the subtitles

Siobhanseija: it needs to be online to add subtitles through Amara so we thought we could go ahead and submit it. If I need to send WP.tv a message that it still needs a logo, let me know. I didn’t know about that, was just trying to move this forward :slightly_smiling_face:

webcommsat: We had hoped to add a WordPress marketing logo to this video. Is there one we can use? [Update – there is not a logo, but there is a ‘brand name’ and a web link we could use.]
@siobhanseija once it is subtitled, we can add some tags based on some work that has been done on this. It is going to be really great. Well done @dushanthi and @Yashwardhan Rana

Siobhanseija: Amara.org makes it super easy to add subtitles, but it needs an online link of the video for that. When submitting it there’s no place to add tags so I guess that’s something we can do afterwards anyway?

  • What is going well?  
  • What is at risk?  
  • What can someone new in Marketing help with?

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Privacy Copy for Privacy by Design  (9/19/18)

Trello: https://trello.com/c/Vbj3Xi2d/180-core-privacy-copy-for-privacy-by-design

Task lead: @mikerbg

WordPressers & their pets campaign  (9/19/18)

Trello: https://trello.com/c/JOcwFWxP/200-wordpressers-their-pets-campaign

Task-lead: @webcommsat and @harryjackson

  • What is going well?  @harryjackson1221: wppets.org and woofpress.org have been set up, and work has began on this project. We also have wpcats.org and wpdogs.org – looking forward to seeing everyone’s pets!
  • What is at risk?
  • What can someone new in Marketing help with?

First Time at WordCamp? Here’s What You Need to Know.  (9/19/18)

Trello: https://trello.com/c/CPcpxveZ/201-first-time-at-wordcamp-heres-what-you-need-to-know

Task-lead: @nalininonstopnewsuk, @webcommsat and @siobhanseija to help take this forward. Please do join us. Update from Abha:

  • What is going well?  From an initial review of materials out there to use at the end of this article and to pick out highlights within it, I have found that some of the bigger WordCamps are doing considerable work on supporting/ welcoming first time WordCampers and first time Contributors. To help capture some of the amazing initiatives and marketing  to this audience segment, I have drafted messages to go out on Slack and Twitter to encourage organisers and those new to add to a shared sheet with their examples, upload images of their campaigns (some of which may be added to the social media appendix document). This will also have a practical aspect of helping any organisers currently looking at this area and promoting how the Make WordPress marketing team is supporting and how they can help.
  • What is at risk/ to be aware of? Nothing at risk. Need to make sure we do not use any campaigns a WordCamp tells us about which it has not launched yet to avoid affecting the impact of their planned communications.
  • What can someone new in Marketing help with?  Assistance with the Google sheet and collection of images, which could also be used for the social media appendix document.

Review Edits for Jargon Glossary (9/19/18)

Trello: https://trello.com/c/pFqO81YW/192-review-edits-for-jargon-glossary

Task-lead: @mcdwayne

Read and Format Case Studies (from Survey Responses) (9/19/18)

Trello Link: https://trello.com/c/ZnT2LCjn/58-read-and-format-case-studies-from-survey-answers

Task-Lead: task-lead: @harryjackson1221 @siobhanseija @brenner22

Savii Case Study – Radish Concepts  (9/19/18)

Trello: https://trello.com/c/EAejEGtB/204-savii-case-study-radish-concepts

Task-lead: This is a perfect spot for a newcomer that wants to contribute

  • What is going well? @harryjackson1221: Ran through and made some content suggetions; @brenneradams: wrapped it up last week and @harryjackson1221 will look in the coming week, moving to needs approval for final editorial next week.