Hello Marc, Just in passing (running errands outside): I still think that we should focus on the main TDF blog. A separate marketing blog for the sake of a secondary blog does not seem exciting (or even useful), but I could be wrong. But that's my impression only.
Best, Charles. On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 12:15:46 -0500 Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Now that v.4.0 is out, and thinks are slowing down a bit, I was > wondering if we could finish the discussion on this, OR, just let me > know to drop it. IMO, we would be a lot better off if we organized a > process for the dissemination of materials. So if you could read the > lines below, and, if we could finish and formalize some kind of > process, I will take care of putting it up on a wiki as well as > putting it up in action on this list. > > I think we are lacking on the process and this would make us even > more of an effective marketing machine in the advocating the use of > LibreOffice on social media sites. It will also help us push our > brand on the internet. > > Cheers, > > Marc > > Le 2013-01-14 12:25, Marc Paré a écrit : > > Hi Charles > > > > Le 2013-01-14 11:46, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : > > > >>> Thanks! > >>> > >>> So just to keep the list complete and for clarity, it now looks > >>> like this: > >>> > >>> First: > >>> * blog about an interesting "LibreOffice" article/event/etc on the > >>> Marketing Blog (this will act as our "main teaser") linking to the > >>> original website > >>> > >>> Second: post a message on the following linking to our official > >>> Marketing Blog. But these posts would have to be considerably > >>> shorter in content to the blog teaser. > >>> > >>> ** Our official Facebook group > >>> ** Our official Google + community > >>> ** The official TDF Google + page > >>> ** The Libreoffice subreddit > >>> ** The Open Source subreddit > >>> ** Our official TDF Twitter: @tdforg > >>> ** Our official LibreOffice Twitter: @libreoffice > >>> > >>> Unless there are others we can work out the process or just > >>> test-try it to see if it suits our needs. > >> > >> > >> The more I think about it, the less I think the marketing blog is > >> the right place. Let me explain my perception. > >> blog.documentfoundation.org is very well followed and it's there > >> where people get their news. The second place they get the news is > >> through our twitter and identi.ca accounts, Facebook and Google +. > >> Then comes the Reddit galaxy. > >> > >> I'm afraid that our marketing blog is not known by many. > >> > >> May I thus suggest two approaches: > >> - we post more on the blog.documentfoundation.org > >> - we handle the marketing blog as a more "specific" and focused > >> blog, and handle our social networks in an autonomous way, that > >> is, without the marketing blog being some sort of central point. > >> > >> What do you think? > >> > >> Charles. > >> > > > > Our blog as well as the doc team's blog are tied to our planet[1]. > > This is where we are read. I don't believe we would be on anyone's > > reading list unless we were of particular marketing interest to > > them. I don't believe that we would ever be of any peculiar > > interest for long to the general public. > > > > It all depends on one's strategic perception of the marketing team > > blog. Is is a place where we use to disseminate materials of > > importance to the popularity/growth of the project (media articles, > > 3rd party materials such as Klaibson's tables announced on this > > list etc.) OR is the blog to be used of information dealing with > > primarily of LibreOffice marketing specifics. > > > > My initial question, was, as a marketing team, what to do with the > > information we receive periodically from the media and 3rd party > > news of LibreOffice compatible products? If as a team, we decide to > > post these on a marketing-team-run blog, would this be desirable? > > > > Quite honestly, any individual could put up their own blog, do the > > same and apply to join our planet. But, do we want to take this up > > as a marketing task ourselves? Is this something that we could use > > strategically? We used to keep track of it on our wiki, which was > > useful at the time it was being done. Do we want to resurrect it in > > another more strategic form? > > > > Should we then run two marketing blogs? One for marketing specifics > > and another for dissemination of materials for the public? Would > > this be strategically interesting for us to do? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Marc > > > > [1] http://planet.documentfoundation.org/ > > > > > > -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder & Director, The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint Mobile Number: +33 (0)6 98 65 54 24. -- 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
