Hello Marc, Charles and everyone, I do believe that Wordpress can be installed on a sub-domain, so the option should be explored if this platform is the one the main bloggers are comfortable with. Wordpress is opensource :)
Immanuel On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 2013-01-14 11:33, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : > > Le lundi 14 janvier 2013 à 11:14 -0500, Marc Paré a écrit : >> >>> Le 2013-01-14 10:26, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : >>> >>>> Hello Marc, >>>> >>>> Le lundi 14 janvier 2013 à 10:09 -0500, Marc Paré a écrit : >>>> >>>>> http://libomarketing.**wordpress.com/<http://libomarketing.wordpress.com/> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks... BTW this blog is a mess. No post is chronologically ordered. >>>> Immanuel may have a point with his suggestion. Mind if I ask what's >>>> possible to do on our website directly ? >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> >>> >>> Some of our blogs are on Wordpress. I believe that the infrastructure >>> move will also bring a consolidation of blogsites into one server and >>> under the TDF control. But for now, even some of the nl blogs are set up >>> on Wordpress. >>> >>> We follow all the same format: >>> >>> http://blog.**documentfoundation.org/<http://blog.documentfoundation.org/> >>> http://libomarketing.**wordpress.com/<http://libomarketing.wordpress.com/> >>> http://libodocs.wordpress.com/ >>> >>> We wanted to make the blog sites accessible to the people blogging on >>> them. Yes, Silverstripe, our CMS, is also able to do blogging, but for >>> now this is what we have. I also think that Italo is comfortable using >>> the Wordpress system. >>> >>> If you have any suggestions, feel free to comment. BTW ... the top >>> comment box on our blog is a general statement of our group; all other >>> articles under this are in date format order. >>> >>> Does this explain the "mess"? >>> >> >> Yes, probably :-) >> My observation so far (sorry if sounds like critics, it's not meant to >> be): >> - the "editorial line" is unclear >> - inasmuch as I DON'T like the blog.documentfoundation.org design, we >> should try to come up with something more visually pleasing here. >> - last but not least, libomarketing.wordpress.com has two issues, of >> which you obviously no control over: it shouts "but they couldn't even >> afford a domain name, like marketing-blog.libreoffice.org and two, it >> insets the infamous "LibO" again, but leaves LibreOffice behind. >> >> So... where do we go from there? >> First of all I'd like to thank you Marc and the authors of this blog for >> keeping it going. >> Given the amount of content there is on the blog I'd like to suggest a >> redesign and a proper URL, or a cloning and reopening under a hosted >> install. >> >> What do you think? >> >> best, >> >> Charles. >> >> >> >> > No problem, AFAIK, Florian is temporarily funding costs associated to > domain name, so, I don't think there will be a problem with this. As the > marketing arm of LibreOffice, we should also ask for the same for the docs > team, so that we are consistent. > > Visually, sure, feel free to suggest a design or ask the design team for > input, then we can surely make it work. BTW, if the design can be a > universal one for not only our blog but also of our wiki section, that > would be great ... it's another item on my to-do wishlist. > > Editorial line, sure, if you can work out one that satisfies both Italo > and yourself for our section. > > Quite frankly, I was hoping that we would have made more of the blog, but > up until recently there was no push to use it effectively, I am all for > making it more of a marketing tool, the reason for which this thread. We > can raise awareness of our marketing team and hopefully attract marketing > contributors. > > Sorry, after re-reading my last reply, it sounded a little critical of > your critique as well -- which it was not meant to be. Such is the nature > of emailing [*sigh*]. > > > Cheers, > > Marc > > -- > Marc Paré > [email protected] > http://www.parEntreprise.com > parEntreprise.com Supports OpenDocument Formats (ODF) > parEntreprise.com Supports http://www.LibreOffice.org > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+help@global.** > libreoffice.org <marketing%[email protected]> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** > unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > List archive: > http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/**marketing/<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
