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
These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and to assist with an asynchronous contribution to the Global Marketing Team. For those unable to attend a meeting due to timezone issues, please do join the discussion threads and tasks on Trello after the meeting and send your updates.
Attendees 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/. Thread: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1606313106112800
A big thanks to @meher for contributing to drafting last week’s meeting notes. Note: Please review and add comments in suggestion mode – link in the Slack. These notes will be updated as appropriate.
Rota:
– 25 Nov: @YashwardhanRana
– 3 Dec: @maedahbatool
– 9 Dec: @lmurillom
You can volunteer to contribute to notes for future meetings. Please note that the initial draft is needed by Friday 17.00 UTC each week to help with actions and follow-ups that might be needed.
It’s time to celebrate and thank everyone for all their efforts during the last week. We will be highlighting the work done with:
Update from coordinating team members: @webcommsat
Huge props to @marybaum, @yvettesonneveld, @webcommsat, @nalininonstopnewsuk, @meher for their contribution towards RC1. Thanks to them and @OGlekler, @lmurillom, @vimes1984, @marks99, @sabrinazeidan, @MegPhillips91, @jellypixel, @MajaLoncar, @herculespekkas, @michelleames, @afshanadiya, @bmcdede for contributing to marketing-related post release materials.
Update from coordinating team members: @webcommsat
Abha attended the WordPress.tv meeting to discuss updates and next steps for joint tasks. If anyone who is also a member of both teams would like to support this co-ordination, please make contact in the Marketing channel on Slack.
Lighting and video set up tips guidance document
Synchronizing audio and video when recording from home tips
Testing of the subtitling auto approach from Pascal
Progress on the priority marketing videos on WPTV for subtitling
Additional materials for subtitling for the WordPress.tv handbook
Update from coordinating team members: @oglekler
A new onboarding video has been published in Bulgarian
Link to full playlist of onboarding videos in different languages: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCVEqsAbLffcS1Rx-COZ5CZBOmXZJEe6k
Videos in Progress: Japanese, Arabic and Persian
Update from co-ordinating team members: @webcommsat and @nalininonstopnewsuk
You can get involved in the following tasks:
Update from coordinating team members: @webcommsat and @meher
The group has been working with @hlashbrooke, @courane01 and @azhiyadev.
A tremendous amount of work from all those contributors who have been involved with supporting both the Learn WordPress working group in Community, the Training Team and the Marketing Team. From working on launch preparation and recruiting help to complete tasks, to drafting and reviewing social media, to writing blog posts.
Update from co-ordinating team members: @maedahbatool and @yvettesonneveld.
A dedicated post with the registration form is now available.
We are starting a series of onboarding sessions for new contributors called ‘Contributing Made Fun & Easy’. Join us and discover how to best contribute your talents, get to know the tools we use, and adopt good practices for working remotely and asynchronously.
At present, this is going to be a four-part series that will take place on a biweekly schedule.
The first session will take place on Tuesday 19 January 2021, at 11:00 UTC.
These training sessions are aimed to help both newcomers and those who would like to get a refresher to get on board with the team and the tasks that are underway.
The initial session starts off with basics covering details about:
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out to the following team members through the WordPress Slack Marketing channel: @maedahbatool and @yvettesonneveld
Task: Work on social media posts encouraging people to submit pre-recorded, video workshops.
Led by: @webcommsat
Attendees: @lmurillom, @courane01, @chaion07, @swetabhsuman8
Slack discussion
Task: Work on completing the social media amplification pack for WordPress 5.6
Led by: @webcommsat
Attendees: @yvettesonneveld, @MegPhillips91, @meher, @webcommsat @maedahbatool, @muzhdekad, @afshanadiya
Slack discussion
If you need accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 on Slack. We are keen to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.
Wednesday 25 November 2020, 5:00 UTC & 20:00 UTC – Dev Chat Meeting in Global WordPress #Core Slack channel.
Thursday 26 November 2020 – Collaborations and support to community and other teams for the next Month in WordPress, 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. Newsletters and more.
Thursday 26 November 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break, Marketing. If you need live captioning to participate, please let @OGlekler or @lmurillom know and we will use a live captioning tool.
Wednesday 2 December, 14:00 UTC – Global Marketing Team Meeting in #marketing Slack channel. Followed by a collaboration session starting at 16:00 led by @webcommsat and @meher.
Wednesday 2 December 2020, 5:00 UTC & 20:00 UTC – Dev Chat in #Core Slack channel
Thursday 3 December 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break, Marketing. This will be led by @miker and @harryjackson1221. If you need live captioning to participate, please let @lmurillom or @meher know and we will use a live captioning tool.
Wednesday 16 December 2020, 15:00 UTC – Staying Connected Poetry Event and Results from our Fun Challenge. This will take place after the main global marketing meeting that day.
Wednesday 2 December 2020, 14:00 UTC in the Marketing Channel on Make WordPress Slack.
Thank you everyone who has joined, attended, and updated the meeting, or contributed asynchronously in the last few days.
If you were in the Marketing Team meeting and would like some extra help to get started to contribute to the project, contact @maedahbatool to get information about the next New Contributors Onboarding meeting.
