Hey- There are several WP plugins that are made exactly for this, scheduling posts on your site so as to keep it active. I think some send email notifications, and include calendars of your posting schedules.
Should I look into it? Christy On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Karen Sandler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, July 18, 2012 7:47 am, Allan Day wrote: > > Emily Gonyer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think we should aim for a minimum of 2 posts a week, and if/when > >> there is more to post, not hesitate to do so. Whenever big events (ie > >> GUADEC, GNOME.Asia, etc) occur, its quite likely that we'll have much > >> more content to publish, and limiting ourselves to 3 or so posts a > >> week just seems silly. It also sets ourselves up for irrelevance as we > >> are likely to have time-relative material that only makes sense to > >> publish around the event. Waiting untill afterwards simply because of > >> a pre-determined schedule is likely to make it fall into irrelevance > >> and not get published at all. During GUADEC large portions of our > >> audience are likely to want releveant and up-to-date posts more so > >> than at other times. > > > > To clarify - the suggestion for 3 posts a week was a minimum, not a > > maximum, and the number was just intended to get the discussion going. > > We can totally change that. :) > > > > I would hope that we will include event reports within the schedule, > > and we will obviously need to be flexible in order to cover events as > > the happen. That'll take a little bit of running coordination. > > > > The main goal of the schedule (and the editorial team) is to ensure > > that posts are fairly evenly spaced. We don't want too many posts at > > the same time, and we need to avoid having lengthy dry periods. > > This sounds great! We could perhaps evaluate some of the GUADEC materials > for articles that are not time sensitive (interviews and the like) so we > have a backlog of materials to fall back on during drier times - that's > how I got my oggcast going with Bradley the first year. Jos and I wrote > some materials at DS last year, but they didn't go that far. > > >> Using a Google Doc for a rough schedule so as to ensure that we do > >> have content during the 'dead' periods between releases, conferences, > >> etc does make sense. I'd be happy to be an editor/reviewer on the site > >> as I have been doing for the past week or so now. So far its been > >> great, and everyone I've heard from seems to enjoy them. > > > > Great - it would be fantastic to have you working on this. > > So great, thank you Emily!!! Are there downsides to using piratepad or > something like that? > > >> I haven't yet committed to any BOF, so the 1st sounds fine to me. What > >> time? > > > > It'll be the final day; we ought to make sure that people will be > > around before making definite arrangements. But maybe 11am would be > > good? > > I think I'll have to leave before then, but if this time works for > everyone else I'll try to meet up with folks before then during the > conference to chip in. > > I'd love for us to find a time for a marketing hackfest too during the > months after GUADEC. Maybe co-located with the Boston Summit? > > karen > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > -- Christy Eller KVNF Public Radio 970-314-1840
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