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 Slack Thread (please add your name in the thread and in the Google doc in suggestion mode if you participated asynchronously and missed your name off the thread)
A big thanks to @maedahbatool and @lmurillom 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:
16 Dec: @oglekler
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.
New Attendees Welcome Thread
Marketing Contributor introductory sessions in 2021 – booking details
Here’s everything that is worth celebrating and task updates during the last week:
Task Updates from contributing group member: @webcommsat
To promote the release, please share social media posts with the hashtag #WPRelease across LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
Update from coordinating team member: @webcommsat
Update from co-ordinating team members: @lmurillom
The marketing team had a busy week of work and planning. Lots of happenings are announcements. Please do follow, share, and like our updates on LinkedIn. It’s quick and really helps expand our reach.
PRIORITY: Contribute by sharing the social media posts with the hashtag #WPRelease.
Please share announcements like the ones above, which you can find on the Make WordPress Marketing Team LinkedIn page.
There is work being done for the upcoming Learn WordPress platform launch, and we need assistance with graphics work, formatting the social pack, and more.
If you have networks which you think would be useful to promote Learn WordPress for launch and during the three to six month campaign we are working on, or if you can help with video and social graphics work, please let @meher and @webcommsat know.
Please complete this scheduling form to help us work out if we need to change the Global #marketing meeting time from January.
We are aware many of our members are unable to join us until 15:00 UTC and we have been holding off on some of our collaborations in recent weeks with the change in daylight saving time to accommodate this.
Task: Creating New Year’s online Resolutions for WordPress. This is something fun we can distribute through social media to bring attention to our goals and priorities for next year.
Led by: @mikerbg
Task: Working on WordPress 5.6 social media and marcomms additional support materials and Learn WordPress launch marketing planning
Led by: @webcommsat
Thank you everyone who has joined, attended, updated the meeting, or contributed asynchronously in the last few days.
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.
Wednesday 16 December 2020, 14:00 UTC – Global Marketing Team meeting in the #Marketing Slack channel – Latest Promotions Only.
NOTE: Wednesday 16 December 2020, 15:00 UTC – CANCELLED: Staying Connected Poetry Event and Results from our Fun Challenge. This has had to be postponed to support members of our team who are unwell currently.
Wednesday 16 December 2020, 17:00 UTC & 20:00 UTC – Dev Chat meetings in the #Core Slack channel.
Thursday 17 December 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break, Marketing. If you need live captioning to participate, please let @meher know and we will use a live captioning tool.
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.
