Thank Erick for raising the discussion. My apologies for not responding before. The original thread raised several questions for me and I needed time to think about them. One question is the Linkedin Company vs Group one. I must admit that it makes sense but the whole story made me realize my lack of understanding of how Linkedin works and wanted to explore that more deeply than I did before creating the group. Another thing that the thread made me realize is that there are several people interested in being involved in C* marketing/Public Relations and that we probably need to do the things in a more mature and open way. Partick and I would like to organize a contributor meeting focused on Apache Cassandra marketing to give a chance to everybody to join and discuss how we could do things better if people are interested. I feel that it would help us to evolve in this area
Le mer. 30 mars 2022 à 03:01, Paulo Motta <pauloricard...@gmail.com> a écrit : > I was unpleasantly surprised to find out that Linkedin group posts are not > visible outside of the group, which greatly reduces post visibility. I > originally supported the group creation because I thought the posts would > be visible outside the group but this doesn't seem to be the case. > > The only thing that bothers me about having a company page is that the > project is not technically a company, but if this is not breaking any > Linkedin ToS and there is precedence in other Apache projects I think it > makes sense to create the company page to give more visibility to community > posts. > > I just don't see much value in keeping the group if we decide to create > the company page, since we may risk duplicating effort and attention. I > don't think Linkedin is the place for technical discussions since we have > other forums for that, I see it more as a marketing channel. > > Em ter., 29 de mar. de 2022 às 21:41, Erick Ramirez < > erickramire...@apache.org> escreveu: > >> I wanted to bring this up again from Benjamin's original thread >> <https://lists.apache.org/thread/p1ql8bs51bjvj50c3535rxkp2bn051fk>. I >> agree with Melissa and I really think there's a lot of value in creating a >> company page on LinkedIn in addition to the "C* Community" group. There is >> a bigger potential for us from a marketing perspective to promote Cassandra >> to a wider audience with a company page. For what it's worth, Apache >> Pulsar <https://www.linkedin.com/company/apachepulsar/> already does >> this. Off the top of my head, here are some notable points: >> >> LinkedIn company page: >> >> - ✅ users can "follow" the page and see posts in their feed >> - ✅ users can @-tag Cassandra in their own posts >> - ✅ reach a wider network on LinkedIn >> - ✅ promote new contributors publicly >> >> LinkedIn group: >> >> - ✅ great for building a community >> - ✅ deeper discussion on topics >> - 👎 users need to join the group >> - 👎 posts are only visible to members >> >> Is there an appetite from the project to pursue this? Cheers! >> >> On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 at 06:06, Melissa Logan <meli...@constantia.io> >> wrote: >> >>> I agree there should be an official LinkedIn page for the project hosted >>> by the community. It's an easy way for people to stay current. >>> >>> If the goal of the new LinkedIn page is to publicly and broadly share >>> what the Cassandra community is doing, one solution would be to change the >>> new Cassandra page from a "group" page to a "company" page. >>> >>> Company pages show all posts publicly by default, and admins don't have >>> to manage requests to join. Anyone can "follow" the page and see/share the >>> posts -- while only allowing community admins to publish. This would also >>> require less care and feeding from community admins. (What I don't know if >>> it's easy to "convert" a group page to company or if it requires starting >>> from scratch.) >>> >>> Then, admins of the existing "group" page could repost any/all items >>> from the community page to keep people informed. >>> >>> This solution could help both pages achieve their goals of spreading the >>> word about Cassandra. >>> >>> -- >>> Melissa Logan (she/her) >>> Principal, Constantia.io >>> LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mklogan/> | Twitter >>> <https://twitter.com/Melissa_B2B> >>> >>
