I have added my name also to the Marketing page as I am interested in helping with this. But I would like to leave the big bits to Ashley :)
I am +1 for a new list here again a link to my thread with ideas: http://markmail.org/search/list:org.apache.couchdb-*?q=How+to+spread+the+word+about+CouchDB+-+some+marketing+stuff Thanks for the action Noah Cheers Andy On 1 February 2014 15:20, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > Moving this to dev. > > Ashley, can you subscribe to dev? Marketing discussion should happen > on the dev list. (Though, I am open to the idea of creating a new list > for marketing discussion.) > Jens, most of the posts there seem very relevant to me. I don't see > the spam you see. > > My membership has been pending for months. LinkedIn tells me that > Marouan OMEZZINE is the current manage. Anyone know who this is? I > just sent them a message and got: "You are no longer authorized to > message this member." > > I have submitted a support request to LinkedIn now to become admin of that > page. > > Ashley, I'd love to have your help with this stuff! > > Please feel free to go ahead and create the Facebook page. Once you > have done so, please add me as a manager as well. I will email you my > Facebook account privately. > > Once you've done that, add yourself to the Marketing team here: > > https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Marketing > > (You might need to sign up for the wiki and have your username added > to the contributor group. Let me know if you get stuck or need > assistance with that.) > On 24 January 2014 05:31, Ashley Parkes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry if I'm an accidental top poster- I researched the mailing list > concept last night, but I still don't know if I'm doing it right! > > > > Anyway, LinkedIn - you can create company pages as well as groups. > Spotty updates definitely look bad, but it's also better (IMO) to have a > well-fleshed-out description page pointing to the website than nothing at > all. Same for Facebook. So if we do those for CouchDB, we can then develop > update strategies to be implemented when we know exactly what kind of > content we want to post and on what schedule. > > > > Also, LinkedIn now has a section for volunteer work! If y'all who have > been contributing for a long time wanted to list your CouchDB work there, > this theoretical company page would be linked to you, and anyone who's > interested in what you do on the side is going to look at that. Not exactly > an aggressive marketing tactic, but it gets the name out there. > > > > > > Ashley > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > -- > Noah Slater > https://twitter.com/nslater > -- Andy Wenk Hamburg - Germany RockIt! http://www.couchdb-buch.de http://www.pg-praxisbuch.de GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc
