Ok thanks Christian for your suggestions. Both helpful for now and for establishing an ongoing effort to build an online community. All, I've made a list of things to do - WPD list<http://www.rememberthemilk.com/home/gerrykirk/5488416/>
Amazing what you can get done with an extra hour time change (not like I can sleep more with little kids in the house). Nate, there is a task there for you. Question - what content do we have for posting? Is the idea to use the media release? What do people think about live streaming some of the events? Do we have a list of local WPD organizer contacts? I like Christian's idea to use a url like worldploneday.org. I could buy it, donate it to the PF and have it autoforward to the WPD page on plone.org. Sound good? What about collecting tagged Flickr photos? Do we have a place where we can aggregate activity happening on the web? I could create a PageFlakes page which would accomplish this. Other ideas? - Gerry On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Christian Scholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I wanted to be somewhat more active with this here but workload is a bit > high at the moment. But here are my remarks. > > So the thing with all this if IMHO that you need to build a web2.0 > community before such events, not with such events. Basically it means > things like putting a "Follow Plone on twitter" button and a link to a > Facebook group on the plone.org homepage. Moreover it might be helpful > to also offer a link to subscribe to news via email (also news should be > more visible). Can be done with Feedburner or other tools (but should > produce statistics so we know what is working and what is not). > > And to those who say that putting this web2.0 crap on the homepage makes > no sense because tomorrow xyz instead of abc is the cool thing, just > tell that then we switch to xyz ;-) You simply have to monitor this > space to see where you reach people best. > > Of course also the logo on the homepage should IMHO be updated ASAP. > > As for WPD you said most things already, I would add: > > - create a new twitter account for WPD, put in the URL and some description > - post some updates on WPD and start following people. You might not > want to add too many people at once though as this looks like spamming. > Start with the Plone community and their followers to follow, then reach > out (e.g. use Scoble's followers or something like that ;-) ) > - put a link to the FB event and the twitter button on the homepage > (create some nice buttons maybe) > - on FB invite as many people as possible to the event (spamming seems > to be quite normal there ;-) ). > - tell your twitter followers about the FB event and all the other stuff > once it's there. It's probably good to make a checklist of what to > announce where when you have some news to spread. > - tell the community to reach out to bloggers individually, prepare some > blogger compatible "press release". Everybody who blogs might know that > the normal press release blurb is not really stuff easily to copy and > paste you might want to have some sort of pre-defined blog post you > spread around. In general it should be as easy as possible for anybody > to spread the news: > - make a list what people can do in a subsection of WPD like > - all the sites we are active in and where people can invite their > own contacts to. > - prepared blog posts/news items for people to reblog/retweet > - call for spreading tweets from the WPD account. > - contacts of people whom they can ask for help > > > Here's something more: > > Ask participants in the event to setup some ustream-based streaming of > the event. It would be great to somehow show off those streams which are > active at some point in time. > Maybe also a plain listing of all the events would be nice to show how > many there are. > > Registering worldploneday.org might also make sense and can stay there > for the years to come (we repeat this, right? ;-) ). > > In general it would be nice to have more numbers, esp. such which do not > compare it directly with other CMSes because that's not always fair and > might not say anything. Rather it would be nice to know more about > website statistics, downloads, contributor growth over the years, > commits over the years, distribution of the community around the world, > posting frequencies on the main mailing list over time etc. > > This always makes nice slides depending on how you present it (I once > saw a presentation about drupal which was kinda like that and was quite > well done). > > It might also make sense to try to get evangelism a bit more active > maybe by making a weekly skype call or something like that. Might help > to keep people motivated. I guess some chair of that group would be > needed (Nate, are you something like that? :-) ). > > And again, statistics is important. We should know afterwards which > channel worked best etc. This includes growth of twitter users, FB > group, email subscriptions and so on. > > Ok, that are my quick thoughts on that. Hope they help! :-) > > -- Christian > > PS: Send greetings to Chris Brogan from me, Nate! :-) (not sure he still > remembers me though) In any case Chris should know more about this than > I do, the PF should hire him ;-) > > > > Nate Aune wrote: > >> I can help with this. > > > > great! if you hadn't volunteered, i was going to volunteer you > anyways. ;) > > > >> write a blog post which will appear on Planet Plone outlining a list > of ways > >> people can help spread the word. > >> > >> post to FB profile > > > > don't forget to post to the Plone group on LinkedIn > > http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2300 > > > > Also, event listing sites such as Eventful.com, Upcoming.org and > > Zvents.com. You can use http://gigblastr.com to bulk post events to > > the first two, Twitter, and we're working on Facebook posting. > > > >> follow my own advice in 1) > >> I can post to Digg, have never posted to Slashdot > >> > >> Does Plone have a fan page in Facebook? I can't seem to figure out how > to > >> search for one. > > > > It wasn't easy to find. The only way I could locate it was by browsing. > > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2247154032 > > > >> Nate, don't you have a list of media contacts? Does anyone have > connections > >> with prominent bloggers? Maybe we can try blogs like TechCrunch. > > > > I met Michael Arrington once but I don't think he remembers me. I know > > Chris Brogan and could see if he wouldn't mind plugging it on his blog > > and/or twitter network. > > > >> Does anyone have a detailed listing of all the things we should do? > > > > No, but this is a great opportunity to make one up. :) I'm cc'ing > > MrTopf as he has blogged about how to promote Plone the "Web 2.0" way > > and even given a talk about it. > > > > http://dev.comlounge.net/conference/my-presentation-at-the-plone-conference-2007/ > > > > Nate > > > >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Roberto Allende <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >>> Hello > >>> > >>> If you are not organizing any wpd event or just have some minutes > and want > >>> to contribute with WPD, here is your chance: > >>> > >>> We need *urgently* a WPD Web 2.0 spreader. The task consist on > spreading > >>> wpd as much as possible in the www, that includes adding news in > sites like > >>> digg, delicious, twitter, slashdot and many others. Once the news is > added > >>> you have write here asking the community join and support it. > >>> > >>> The material is ready: > >>> We have a press release: http://plone.org/news/wpd-press-release > >>> And the official WPD site is: http://plone.org/wpd > >>> > >>> If you cannot do all the job, but you want to take care doing it in one > >>> site, just do it! > >>> > >>> I strongly believe we've a very successful event already, we just > need to > >>> let the world know! > >>> > >>> Kind Regards > >>> r. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> http://robertoallende.com > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Evangelism mailing list > >>> Evangelism@lists.plone.org > >>> http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism > >> > >> > >> -- > >> blog: http://gerrykirk.net > >> daily musings at http://twitter.com/gerrykirk > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Evangelism mailing list > >> Evangelism@lists.plone.org > >> http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > Christian Scholz Homepage: http://comlounge.net > COM.lounge blog: http://mrtopf.de/blog > Luetticher Strasse 10 Skype: HerrTopf > 52064 Aachen Video Blog: http://comlounge.tv > Tel: +49 241 400 730 0 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Fax: +49 241 979 00 850 IRC: MrTopf, Tao_T > > neue Show: TOPFtäglich (http://mrtopf.de/blog/category/topf-taglich/) > -- blog: http://gerrykirk.net daily musings at http://twitter.com/gerrykirk
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