Title: Marketing Team Update – April 18, 2018 Author: Bridget Willard Published: April 21, 2018 --- [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bridgetwillard/) [Bridget Willard](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bridgetwillard/) 8:17 pm _on_ April 21, 2018   # Marketing Team Update – April 18, 2018 Our vision for the Marketing Team is to be the go-to resource on strategy and content for other WordPress teams  — that means you. We reiterate our mission each week so that everyone who is new to the team understands what our goals are. [This helps with onboarding.](https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/handbook/getting-involved/) We use our weekly slackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/). The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/) meeting to focus on updates to the tasks that currently exist in [Trello](https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing). There wasn’t anything published save our 1 Day 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/](https://make.wordpress.org/) There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. [https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/](https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/) PDF. We’re continuing to prioritize Growth Council Ops requests. [ContributorDay-OnboardingPDF-041118 (1)](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/files/2018/04/ContributorDay-OnboardingPDF-041118-1.pdf) ## We’re Here for You As always, if you have a task request please pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” either me (@gidgey on Slack) or [@mcdwayne](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mcdwayne/). We’ll set up a TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: [https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing.](https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing) card and get to work. Our [meeting notes are here](https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2018/04/21/marketing-team-notes-april-18-2018/). ### Share this: * [ Threads ](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2018/04/21/marketing-team-update-april-18-2018/?share=threads) * [ Mastodon ](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2018/04/21/marketing-team-update-april-18-2018/?share=mastodon) * [ Bluesky ](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2018/04/21/marketing-team-update-april-18-2018/?share=bluesky) * [ X ](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2018/04/21/marketing-team-update-april-18-2018/?share=x) * [ Facebook ](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2018/04/21/marketing-team-update-april-18-2018/?share=facebook) * [ LinkedIn ](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2018/04/21/marketing-team-update-april-18-2018/?share=linkedin) * [Login to Reply](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmake.wordpress.org%2Fupdates%2F2018%2F04%2F21%2Fmarketing-team-update-april-18-2018%2F%23respond&locale=en_US) ### Leave a Reply 󠀁[Cancel reply](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2018/04/21/marketing-team-update-april-18-2018/?output_format=md#respond)󠁿 You must be [logged in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmake.wordpress.org%2Fupdates%2F2018%2F04%2F21%2Fmarketing-team-update-april-18-2018%2F&locale=en_US) to post a comment. # Post navigation [← Community Team Chats – March 1st 2018](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2018/04/20/community-team-chats-march-1st-2018/) [Plugin Team Update – 23 April 2018 →](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2018/04/23/plugin-team-update-23-april-2018/)