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 the Slack thread. This will help you join in the discussions and to get more involved. The team may not be aware of comments you add on other sites which replicate the notes.
Link to the start of the meeting on Marketing Slack to help with async contributions.
These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and assist with an asynchronous contribution to the Global Marketing Team. For those unable to attend a meeting for whatever reason please join the discussion threads after the meeting and send your updates there.
View the thread via this Slack link.
You can find a link to the notes from the last meeting at this link. Thank you @santanainniss.
Reyes Martínez volunteered to take notes for the 23 March 2022 Marketing meeting.
Notetakers for coming weeks – please volunteer to contribute to creating these notes where there is a call for note-takers during our meetings!
There was a call for volunteers for Coffee Break facilitators to help with the coffee breaks for the Team:
Updates via @eidolonnight
View the thread on Slack
The March Meetup Organizer Newsletter was emailed yesterday. That email had an open rate of 41.4% and a click rate of 5%, which is normal. We do see a regular outlier in these emails, that being any email mentioning new in-person meetup guidelines. These tend to have an open rate of 60-70%.
Updates via @eidolonnight
View the thread on Slack
We continue to ask that new contributors help with WordPress.org Social Media Amplification. Given the newness of our social efforts on WordPress.org, liking, commenting, sharing, or otherwise engaging with content is the best way to help.
We continue to scale up our social media efforts, and to iterate on processes in order to sustainably grow our audience. The following is our current list of campaigns, their hashtags, and their primary points of contact if you have questions or want to be involved.
Update from @nalininonstopnewsuk
View the thread via this Slack link.
We are moving the discussion area to the main Marketing area on GitHub. We really need contributors help to test they can add comments to items there. We can then migrate current discussions and archive the old area.
This is where we will also be posting the meeting planning for the week ahead, so please do add a comment even if it is hello on this week’s meeting ticket so we know this works.
https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/discussions
A systems and GitHub meeting is being set up on documentation aimed at end users, and pulling together the various skills/ contributors on this from documentation, training, marketing.
More details will be shared soon following an update with training/ WP Learn on potential changes that could be made on existing GitHub use.
The aim is to use GitHub to share and track the areas relating to end users more easily between the teams, now that marketing, documentation and Learn WP are moving / have moved to GitHub. Testing is being developed on how this could be done using some of the new GitHub tools.
Thank you to @bph, @milana_cap and @webcommsat who are leading the Documentation aspects for 6.0. They will share an update on this at a future meeting, and be chatting more with @dansoschin, @marybaum, @annezazu, and others too.
Update via: @nalininonstopnewsuk
View the thread via this Slack link.
https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/discussions/18
There is currently an issue as the Make WordPress screens have changed slightly from the original videos. This is being looked into. Due to the world situation, we will need some additional volunteers to help with updating / synchronizing the new versions, and supporting the polyglots with this. The skills needed for this are mainly video editing.
If video and photo editing is something you enjoy, these are good and fun ways to get involved.
@femkreations has offered to help with images in the future.
View the thread via this Slack link.
We are still looking for team members who will be attending WordCamp Europe, who may be interested in volunteering for a Marketing team contributor day table and/or the community booth.
@dansoschin updated the team is looking for a contributor for some time during the two-day conference part of event (not the contributor day part) to staff a booth to share how to get involved in marketing.
View the thread via this Slack link.
View the conversation via this Slack link.
Next Marketing Meeting: Wednesday 23 March 2022, 15:00 UTC #marketing-team #meeting-notes
If you are reading these notes on a website other than the Make WordPress Marketing blog, please contact us on the #marketing channel on 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 as we may not be aware of comments you add on other sites to be able to reply or help involve you.
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 after the meeting and send your updates.
You will find the latest notes draft in our Notes Document link in this Slack thread for review. Last week’s notes are not available as yet – can someone help cover these?
A reminder to those who have notes pending to please finish them up as soon as possible and let @lmurillom or @meher know in the main #marketing channel when they’re done.
Rota for drafting notes:
After every meeting, we add a link to the Slack meeting at the top of the weekly agenda on the P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. (Make Marketing Team blog).
Update sent from: @annezazu, @hellofromtonya
Update via: @evarlese, @webcommsat, @EidolonNight
Update sent from: @courane01
The Training team are highlighting requests for feedback, wordsmithing, and elevating/amplifying content:
Facilitators/ support to new contributors: @marybaum, @webcommsat, @yvettesonneveld, @nalininonstopnewsuk, @meher
Tasks:
Update from: @lmurillom
Actions:
Action/ volunteer opportunity:
Update from: @webcommsat, @meher, @nalininonstopnewsuk
Action/ Volunteer opportunity:
Update from: @courane01, @yvettesonneveld, @webcommsat
Thanks to @femkreations for stepping in to do these notes.
If you are reading these notes on a website other than the Make WordPress Marketing blog, please contact us on the #marketing channel on 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 as we may not be aware of comments you add on other sites to be able to reply or help involve you.
These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and 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 after the meeting and send your updates.
You will find the latest notes in our Notes Document for review. Thank you @yashwardhanrana for working on last week’s notes, and a reminder to those who have notes pending to please finish them up as soon as possible and let @lmurillom or @meher know when they’re done.
Rota for drafting notes:
After every meeting, we now add a link to the Slack meeting at the top of the weekly agenda on the P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. (make Marketing Team blog).
Thanks to everyone who came to the introduction to GitHub repositories and updates from the testing and pilots, the background to how we arrived at using GitHub, and our tools for our new contributors. Further sessions will be announced for October and November. [Post meeting: 27 October 2021 will be a training session for users completely new to WordPress, please set up a GitHub username to use on the platform in advance]
The form continues to be available for expressions of interest for future sessions and to help identify attendees’ familiarity with GitHub.
Thanks to @tantienhime, @femkreations, and everyone who volunteered for your ongoing interest. We are flat out with the migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies., diversity, and WPTD too at the moment, but your efforts are all appreciated
Update from: @majaloncar
We have had lots of ideas on the document about cross-promoting the social media amplification pack for 5.8 and for future promotions. Thank you to everyone who submitted the items. Currently, the main places the social media amplification pack are promoted are:
It has been suggested we also promote it on:
If you have any ideas, please share them in Slack.
We will be exploring this request next. The post does take a little time to read, so please do feel free to come back and add your thoughts to this later on.
We will share the GitHub card for this task in the thread too so you can contribute ideas for how we can help share this information with those who will be affected by the change.
Update from: @majaloncar and @webcommsat
Internal user information: proposed changes to the P2 Make Team blogs (16 September 2021)
New workflow for reporting issues, using a new GitHub Repository
Update from: @webcommsat @majaloncar @eidolonnight
Update via: @courane01
Update from: @webcommsat and @courane01
A follow-up workshop is being finalized for October, and after that further details will be shared about the next steps. If you have been contributing to the team in many areas over time, and feel you can give several hours during the next few weeks to attend and help complete the follow-up work, please do let us know.
If you would like to chat about the contributing ladder and marketing in more detail, add a comment in the Slack thread, and @vimes1984, @yvettesonneveld, @meher, or @webcommsat will get back to you.
You can read about the details and background of the workshop on GitHub.
We are reviewing and recruiting a sub-group who can give dedicated time to the Showcase updates from Marketing. @harryjackson1221, who is leading on this, is keen to build a group who can give several hours weekly to this task during the next six months and attend regular update meetings.
Details relating to Showcase can be found on the GitHub card
Update from: @oglekler
@oglekler will be adding an update to this task area and a link to the social media draft posts.
Update from: @webcommsat and @meher
Update from: @lmurillom
Thanks to everyone who shared social posts this and last week, including Meetups and #WPDiversity! You can find updates on GitHub in the Rolling Tasks repository and on the Meetups and Polyglots repositories. Thanks to @yvettesonneveld who has been working on Twitter copy for Meetup promotions, and to @vimes1984 for promoting our LinkedIn page!
Actions:
Task volunteers call:
You can join the task groups working on these. Mention @lmurillom in the channel if you would like to volunteer and have experience of writing social media for an organization or campaigns on different channels. Photo editing skills are also needed.
Upcoming Diary Dates are in this dedicated post.
Link to the start of the meeting on the Make WordPress Marketing Slack.
If you are reading these notes on a website other than the Make WordPress Marketing blog, please contact us on the #marketing channel on 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 as we may not be aware of comments you add on other sites to be able to reply or help involve you.
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 after the meeting and send your updates.
Thank you @femKreations for working on last week’s notes, and a reminder to those who have notes pending to please finish them up as soon as possible and let @lmurillom or @meher know when they’re done.
Rota for drafting notes:
After every meeting, we now add a link to the Slack meeting at the top of the weekly agenda on the P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. (the Make Marketing Team blog).
We are moving tasks to this tool, and you can start following them on GitHub.
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 will try and find ways to help. We are keen to continue to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.
Update via: @courane01
Update via: @webcommcast
Update on behalf of @meher
Update via: @yvettesonneveld
[Update: link to the start of the meeting on the Make WordPress Marketing 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/.]
Additional links and preparation for the agenda (Slack – Marketing)
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 will try and find ways to help. We are keen to continue to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.
Thanks to @webcommsat, @meher, and @lmurillo for contributing items for the agenda and liaising with other teams.
If you are reading these notes on a website other than the Make WordPress Marketing blog, please contact us on the #marketing channel on 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 as we may not be aware of comments you add on other sites to be able to reply or help involve you.
Help info for new contributors – For actions listed below, some of the items go direct to the discussion on Slack. If you are having problems with accessing Slack, you can add your interest in volunteering on this post. There are also videos to help you set up a Slack account to contribute to WordPress.
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 after the meeting and send your updates.
Notes are published on the Marketing Team blog. Team members can also check the draft each week in our Notes Document for review on our Google Drive. Thank you @majaloncar for working on last week’s notes.
A reminder to those who have notes pending to please finish them up as soon as possible and let @lmurillom or @meher know when they’re done.
Rota for drafting notes:
After every meeting, we now add a link to the Slack meeting at the top of the weekly agenda on the P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. ( Make Marketing Team blog).
We are moving tasks to this tool, and you can start following them there. @vimes1984 and @webcommsat will be doing a demo of the key areas, the results of the pilot, and background for new contributors on the tools and how we reached the new setup.
All are welcome to attend on 17 September 2021 at 4.00 pm / 16:00 UTC. Please let us know if you will be joining and your familiarity with GitHub to help prepare the live session, by filling out the signup form shared on Slack. [Update]: Session completed.
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 on Slack. We will try and find ways to help. We are keen to continue to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.
Update via: @milana_cap
Update via: @annezazu, @webcommsat, @cbringmann, @meher
Update via: @webcommsat, @webtechpooja @nalininonstopnewsuk
Update via: @courane01
The Training team continues to seeking additional help as the team grows:
Update via: @jillbinder, @nalininonstopnewsuk, @lmurillom
Update via: @lmurillom
Thank you to those who amplified the posts we’ve put up on social media in the past week!
Please note that we are changing the coffee break timing.
5 people respond to the change of time for the coffee break.
Taking that into consideration we are going to go ahead and have our coffee breaks on the second and last Thursday of the month each month at 18.30 UTC.
For the month of September, the next coffee break is scheduled for 30 Sep at 18.30 UTC and will be facilitated by @meher and @nicholas
If you are reading these notes on a website other than the Make WordPress Marketing blog, please contact us on the #marketing channel on 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 as we may not be aware of comments you add on other sites to be able to reply or help involve you.
Help info for new contributors – For actions listed below, some of the items go direct to the discussion on Slack. If you are having problems with accessing Slack, you can add your interest in volunteering on this post. There are also videos to help you set up a Slack account to contribute to WordPress.
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 after the meeting and send your updates.
Last week’s notes can be read on this P2 post. Thank you @OGlekler for working on last week’s notes, and a reminder to those who have notes pending to please finish them up as soon as possible and let @lmurillom or @meher know when they’re done.
Rota for drafting notes:
Update from: @meher
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 will try and find ways to help. We are keen to continue to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.
Update from: @milana_cap
Update from: @annezazu and @webcommsat
Update from: @webcommsat, @webtechpooja @nalininonstopnewsuk
Update from: @azhiyadev
Update from: @webcommsat @jillbinder @dansoschin
Update from: @oglekler
Update from: @lmurillom
Update from: @webcommsat
Please note this week there will be no coffee break as we are reviewing everyone’s preferred dates and times.
A reminder about our Google Calendar with meetings, collaborations, and social activities.
Thank you to @webcommsat for facilitating the meeting and everyone who attended.
Update: link to beginning of the meeting 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/. in the Marketing Channel
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 will try and find ways to help. We are keen to continue to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.
Thanks to @webcommsat and @lmurillo for working on items for the agenda and liaising with other teams. Thanks to @meher and @yvettesonneveld for following up on notes and actions.
Update: link to the start of the meeting which took place in the Make WordPress Marketing 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/.
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 will try and find ways to help. We are keen to continue to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.
Thanks to @webcommsat and @lmurillo for working on items for the agenda and liaising with other teams. Thanks to @meher for following up on notes and actions.
Update: Link to the start of the meeting 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/.. Links to posts highlighted during the meeting are below.
Thanks to @webcommsat, @lmurillom and @meher for preparation on the agenda.
