Hi Gerry, On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 07:15 -0500, Gerry Kirk wrote: > 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 > > > 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?
I sent an email to the list a little while back with a link[1] to a Yahoo Pipes feed for WPD 2008. It was my first attempt at setting 1 up so I'm unsure if it's working correctly so feel free to modify it to suck in some more content (currently referencing flickr, bloglines, youtube, delicious). Thanks, Tim [1] http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=7uO8l_Oc3RGCrANR1L3fcQ > > > - 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Evangelism mailing list > Evangelism@lists.plone.org > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism _______________________________________________ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
