Marketing Team Update – May 16, 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.

If you have any questions or feel lost (all of us do at some point), please feel free to 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.” any of us in 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/.. We’re here to help guide and mentor you. We meet in Slack every Wednesday morning at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time.

We use our weekly slack meeting to focus on updates to the tasks that currently exist in Trello. We’ve been concentrating on tasks originating from the Growth Council of late including surveys, and new page and menu ideas.

The Marketing Team is continuing to receive and write case studies as well.

Three you may have missed are:

This Case Study is published by the Make WordPress Marketing Team. Provided by DigiSavvy, a full-service digital agency in Los Angeles.

Urban Southern Case Study

This Case Study is published by the Make WordPress Marketing Team. Provided by Manifesto, a multi-award winning agency of creatives and technologists in London, UK.

Unicef Case Study

This Case Study is published by the Make WordPress Marketing Team, provided by 24HR, a Digital Agency located in Stockholm, Sweden.

24 HR – React and REST API Case Study for Expohouse

We are excited about the upcoming Contributor Day at WordCamp Europe.

Last Week’s Stats

The top two posts from last week were the jargon glossary and the onboarding guide for Contributor Day. This reinforces our mission to be helpful to the community at large get involved.

7 Day Stats Ending 16 May 18

7 Day Stats Ending 16 May 18

We’re Here for You

As always, if you have a task request please ping either me (@gidgey on Slack) or @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. card and get to work.

Our meeting notes are here.

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