The Marketing team promotes WordPress to current and future users and contributors. We create and amplify campaigns to support the growth of the WordPress project.
Our work is tracked on the Marketing Tasks Board on the WordPress organization’s GitHub. If you are planning a Marketing Table at a Contributor Event, please let us know in the Slack channel.
You can be part of the #marketing channel on Slack. Join our next Weekly Marketing Chat at: Tuesday 15:00 UTC.
Diary dates
Diary dates and forward planning as at w/c 21 September 2020. This will be updated after the meeting on 23 September.
The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 23 September 2020 at 14:00 UTC in the Global WordPress 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/. #marketing channel.
If you are reading this agenda on another website and not the make.wordpress.org, please note that we may not be aware of any responses or offers to contribute you make on other sites.
If you are reading this from promotion in other Make Teams or are not yet active in the Marketing Team, there are details below of how you can get involved.
In response to feedback, testing and in trying to continue to make contributing more inclusive, we now include:
This is where we also include highlights from what team members have been doing related to marketing in the WordPress community.
Update from team member: @nalininonstopnewsuk
Get involved: Can you help amplify the social media promotions? Search #WPDiversity on the WordCamp on Twitter, WordCamp Facebook and Make WordPress Marketing Team on LinkedIn, and share the messages.
Update from team member: @lmurillom
Get involved: You can help amplify the social media promotions by retweeting/ sharing our posts which can be found on the WordPress Marketing Team’s LinkedIn page, and in other channels – search #OnlineWPMeetup . In the future, we will also be using the #OnlineWPMeetupNews to help MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. organizers who have replied to our survey. We will be continuing to work with @HariShankar on this in the community team.
Can you help with this curation and writing task, contact @lmurillom on the main Marketing Slack channel.
Brief update on the 0embed and Facebook changes – via @yvettesonneveld
NOTE: more updates on release-related marketing will continue after the meeting at 15:30 UTC, 23 September 2020.
Get involved: do you understand the release process, can easily explain tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. tickets or are a developer with a strong interest in marketing and communications? Contact @webcommsat and @oglekler
Plans can be found at: https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2020/09/09/lets-celebrate-international-translation-day-together/
Get involved: additional marketing and communications support is urgently needed to assist polyglots, reply in the Slack thread, below or initially contact @meher In the main marketing or polyglot-events channels.
Reminder of shared calendar and how to use it: from @oglekler
Updates on socials from: @meher
You can also suggest to one of the team reps by the Monday before the meeting if you have an idea for inclusion at a future meeting.
The meeting will be formally closed at the end of all the collaborations sessions on Wednesday.
If you need accessibility or language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel. We are keen to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.
Monday 21 September 2020, 12pm UTC – Planning and actions meeting, with 10 minute coffee break drop-in for team members who are available.
Tuesday 22 September 2020, 19:00 UTC – WordPress Release 5.6 Marcomms planning meeting – let us (Mary, Yvette and Abha) know if you would like to suggest anything for this meeting of those co-ordinating the marketing.
Thursday 24 September 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break on video conferencing. If you need live captioning to participate, please let @oglekler or @marks99 know and we will use an appropriate tool.
Friday 25 September 2020, 12:00 UTC – Learn WordPress marcomms meeting
Friday 25 September 2020, times tbc Translation week update
Monday 28 September 2020, 19:15 UTC: Marketing releases and social media updates and drop-ins translation week marketing
Tuesday 29 September 2020, 19:00 UTC – WordPress Release 5.6 Marcomms planning co-ordinations meeting – let us (Mary, Yvette and Abha) know if you would like to suggest anything for this meeting of those co-ordinating the marketing.
Wednesday 30 September 2020, 14:00 UTC Global Marketing Team Meeting will be devoted to supporting the WordPress Translation week celebrations. Help is needed all day on Wednesday please and for part of the day on Sunday 4 October 2020.
Thursday 1 October 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break, on video conferencing and Slack for those unable to join on video. We also hold short coffee breaks on Monday and Tuesday to be inclusive of other timezones when we have enough demand and a team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. is available. These are posted on the marketing channel on Slack. Please feel free to come along. They normally are at the beginning of collaboration sessions.
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