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
If you are reading these notes on a website other than the Make WordPress Marketing blog, you can add comments directly to the #marketing channel on the Make 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/. or via the team’s blog.
After each item in the meeting notes, there is a link directly to its related Slack thread. This will help you join the discussions and get more involved. The team may not be aware of comments you add on other sites which replicate the notes.
These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and assist with asynchronous contribution to the Global Marketing Team. For those unable to attend a meeting due to timezone issues, please do join the discussion threads after the meeting and send your updates.
Thank you to our notetaking volunteers for the next few weeks. How to information for the team’s notes are available in the Marketing Team Handbook. We will be adding screenshots to help contributors less familiar with updating the blog site.
The GitHub card for all aspects of each week’s meeting and any collaboration are linked in the list below by date. If you have suggestions for the agendas for these meetings or have an update you can give asynchronously, you can also add them to the card for the relevant week. There are contributors available to help anyone get started with the team GitHub, message in the main Marketing slack channel and include @nalininonstopnewsuk in your message.
Take a look at the team notes from September 7, 2022 — props to @webcommsat for drafting and @nalininonstopnewsuk and @lmurillom for reviewing.
Notetakers for coming weeks – join our group of contributors who help with notes by volunteering when you see a call for notetakers during our meetings, or by adding your name to the weekly GitHub card.
14 September 2022 – @yashwardhanrana
21 September 2022 – @santanainniss
28 September 2022 – @slspeller911
Help to facilitate a coffee break?
We are looking for contributors to open the virtual coffee shop for the bi-weekly coffee break.
Check out the GitHub card #23 and add your name to the list! Read the updated guide on facilitating a coffee break and volunteer.
Update from @nalininonstopnewsuk
The main Marketing Team task board is available in GitHub. If you would like help using GitHub, please reply in this thread. There is help available.
With the preparation for WCUS, we will leave check-ins until next week. Please do update any cards on GitHub this week or let @nalininonstopnewsuk (‘nalini’ on Slack) know if you would like one of our GitHub support contributors to help you.
Update from @eidolonnight.
i) @eidolonnight has a Zapier automation running to help solve Auto post published videos to YouTube channel. Conversation is ongoing in this #WPTV thread. Expect WordPress.TV videos to be published to the WordPress YouTube channel in the coming weeks.
ii) Thanks to the Training team, this will include tutorials from Learn.WordPress.org. @eidolonnight spoke to @courane01 at 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. US (WCUS) about encouraging the use of tags on these videos since these do get imported to YouTube along with the videos. So if you see opportunities there, be sure to point them out.
iii) Our WordPress Social Media Amplification (GitHub ticket #7) details how you can help share and amplify WordPress news on social media. You will also find a list of the primary WordPress.org social accounts and campaign contacts there.
This is a good first task for new contributors. You can get started participating in our online conversations and/or contributing content to one of our active campaigns. Just post here and tag any of the people listed in the “Process” section of that GitHub issue.
We had several great ideas for content come in on Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. at WCUS. Read the workshop document for details.
Update from @eidolonnight and @dansoschin
@dansoschin subbed in for WordPress 6.1 Marketing & Communications Lead, @jpantani.
Update from @nalininonstopnewsuk
Updates from @lmurillom, @rmartinezduque, @webcommsat, @santanainniss
i) Month in WordPress: If you have any news or Make team updates that would be valuable and relevant for the September 2022 edition, please feel free to add them as a comment to this GitHub card 109 by Friday, September 30, 2022.
ii) People in WordPress series:
iii) WP Briefing: in episode 38 of the podcast, @chanthaboune speaks with @azhiyadev about the WordPress Training team and the Learn WordPress.org initiative. Please listen, share, and think about contributing time to the Training team.
Additionally, @santanainniss has shared a call for brainstorming for the Halloween Episode of the WP Briefing Podcast. Please leave your ideas in the GitHub card. Deadline: September 26, 2022
iv) WordPress Translation Day plans
There will be some events and local translation encouragement on September 28, 2022, before International Translation Day on September 30. More information to come.
Update received from @rmartinezduque.
Photos directory initiative (GitHub card #80) for World Photography Day.
The challenge collection now has 90, and about 30 social posts about the challenge have already been published across the WordPress.org platforms. Photos from the challenge will continue to be featured on WordPress.org’s social platforms.
If any of the people who participated would like to share a story behind the photo they sent and the place it represents, please reach out to Reyes (ReyesMartinez on Slack).
Update from @lmurillom
Our next Coffee break will be Thursday, 22 September 2022, at 18:30/ 6.30pm UTC. This bi-weekly social coffee break is held by the Make Marketing team for all WordPress Marketing contributors, and occasional guests. Stop by and meet some of the friendly faces marketing WordPress.
– Volunteer needed to help facilitate this.
Follow this Google Calendar with meetings, collaborations, and social activities. We also list important dates in this Forthcoming Diary Dates post.
a) Update from the Training team – Slack thread
The individual learning survey is still open for completion. Training has been talking with @jpantani about elevating stories of direct learners on social. @eidolonnight encouraged setting an end date for the survey. @dansoschin has set a social tweet to go out on September 24, 2022.
b) Marketing Team Handbook – Slack thread
Update from @santanainniss who is part of the group working on some of the proposed improvements for 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) and screenshots for the marketing handbook note taking page. She has run into some errors in the Make blog and has some questions on how to solve. Discussion on this took place in the meeting as other contributors have been having similar issues and started documenting the same. @meher is co-ordinating these efforts and will do the metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. ticket.
The next global Marketing team meeting will take place on Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 08:30 PM GMT+5:30. All welcome.
You can contribute and add asynchronous updates on the GitHub card #110 for planning for September 21, 2022.
