Re: [opensuse-marketing] Introduction

2018-08-02 Thread ddemaio
We good collaborate here about the posts - 
https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/socialmediaspost


v/r

Doug


On 07/26/2018 09:52 AM, Vinzenz Vietzke wrote:

Hi Beau,

this all sounds interesting to me as well. Maybe you could go ahead and put up 
your ideas at some collaboration doc?
This way we could get this whole thing pushed forward.

Best regards,
vinz.

Am 26. Juli 2018 05:12:08 MESZ schrieb Beau Mathieson :

Greetings Doug,

Indeed, perhaps we could consider an alternative approach or work
around
to providing quality content without to much attention to stock
graphics.

Great, I would love being added as an editor to the social media
pages. Also agreed, that we should start a collaboratory document in
which we could brainstorm ideas that translate into a more unified
social media approach.

I look forward to hearing back from you.

Beau Mathieson

On 25/7/18 12:34 am, ddemaio wrote:

Hi Beau,
I have a few points below.

On 2018-07-17 06:30, Beau Mathieson wrote:

Hi Doug,

Thanks for the welcoming response, to begin with I would like to
apologise for taking my time to get back to you.

I could completely understand for the reasoning to ditch meetings
and I like the fact that the team is eager to increase

adoption. I also

absolutely agree we should have a better arsenical of stock graphics

for

our communications, and if we take a look at research conducted by
Twitter, posts containing videos or images had three times more
engagement then those that did not. Perhaps this is an area in which
would could collaborate with the Artwork team?

The branding guidelines were established a few years back -
https://opensuse.github.io/branding-guidelines/ People have
contributed in various ways and have done a good job using the
guidelines. It would be great to have some stock images made like you
suggest. The artwork team is aware of this, but it really comes down
to time and there ability to make a unified theme of stock images.
  

What I would like to see is a unified approach to publishing content

to

our major social media pages (Twitter and Facebook). For example,
the last post on the Facebook page was the 6th of July and if I be

blunt

here the quality of the content on these pages is in my opinion
sub-standard. This is shown though the low engagement levels on
those pages, which the average engagement per post around about
10 retweets/likes, which is pretty poor
considering we have 61,000 followers on Twitter and

11,000 followers on

Facebook. What I believe we should do, is, create a strategy for

perhaps

as an example, monthly marketing campaigns in which we base our

content

on targeted demographics and their related use cases, while still
incorporating announcements/blogs in to the mix. I believe this

approach

would help drive adoption. I would love to know whether or

not we have

any social media analytics? I understand Twitter allows profiles to
view audience insights into both organic audiences and followers.I

would

love to view the data from that.

Yes, this is a good idea and sometimes we are able to do this. I am
able to add you as an editor to some of the social media pages if you
would like to help with posts. We have different people with access
and they post on occasion, especially when I am on leave like I had
been the past two weeks. We could come up with some monthly themes

and

do some brainstorming if you are interested. We can create a page on
https://etherpad.opensuse.org and put together some ideas. How does
that sound?


v/r
Doug


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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Introduction

2018-07-26 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi Beau,

this all sounds interesting to me as well. Maybe you could go ahead and put up 
your ideas at some collaboration doc?
This way we could get this whole thing pushed forward.

Best regards,
vinz.

Am 26. Juli 2018 05:12:08 MESZ schrieb Beau Mathieson :
>Greetings Doug,
>
>Indeed, perhaps we could consider an alternative approach or work
>around
>to providing quality content without to much attention to stock
>graphics.
>
>Great, I would love being added as an editor to the social media
>pages. Also agreed, that we should start a collaboratory document in
>which we could brainstorm ideas that translate into a more unified
>social media approach.
>
>I look forward to hearing back from you.
>
>Beau Mathieson
>
>On 25/7/18 12:34 am, ddemaio wrote:
>> Hi Beau,
>> I have a few points below.
>>
>> On 2018-07-17 06:30, Beau Mathieson wrote:
>>> Hi Doug,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the welcoming response, to begin with I would like to
>>> apologise for taking my time to get back to you. 
>>>
>>> I could completely understand for the reasoning to ditch meetings
>>> and I like the fact that the team is eager to increase
>adoption. I also
>>> absolutely agree we should have a better arsenical of stock graphics
>for
>>> our communications, and if we take a look at research conducted by
>>> Twitter, posts containing videos or images had three times more
>>> engagement then those that did not. Perhaps this is an area in which
>>> would could collaborate with the Artwork team?
>>
>> The branding guidelines were established a few years back -
>> https://opensuse.github.io/branding-guidelines/ People have
>> contributed in various ways and have done a good job using the
>> guidelines. It would be great to have some stock images made like you
>> suggest. The artwork team is aware of this, but it really comes down
>> to time and there ability to make a unified theme of stock images.
>>  
>>>
>>> What I would like to see is a unified approach to publishing content
>to
>>> our major social media pages (Twitter and Facebook). For example,
>>> the last post on the Facebook page was the 6th of July and if I be
>blunt
>>> here the quality of the content on these pages is in my opinion
>>> sub-standard. This is shown though the low engagement levels on
>>> those pages, which the average engagement per post around about
>>> 10 retweets/likes, which is pretty poor
>>> considering we have 61,000 followers on Twitter and
>11,000 followers on
>>> Facebook. What I believe we should do, is, create a strategy for
>perhaps
>>> as an example, monthly marketing campaigns in which we base our
>content
>>> on targeted demographics and their related use cases, while still
>>> incorporating announcements/blogs in to the mix. I believe this
>approach
>>> would help drive adoption. I would love to know whether or
>not we have
>>> any social media analytics? I understand Twitter allows profiles to
>>> view audience insights into both organic audiences and followers.I
>would
>>> love to view the data from that.
>>
>> Yes, this is a good idea and sometimes we are able to do this. I am
>> able to add you as an editor to some of the social media pages if you
>> would like to help with posts. We have different people with access
>> and they post on occasion, especially when I am on leave like I had
>> been the past two weeks. We could come up with some monthly themes
>and
>> do some brainstorming if you are interested. We can create a page on
>> https://etherpad.opensuse.org and put together some ideas. How does
>> that sound?
>>
>>
>> v/r
>> Doug
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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Introduction

2018-07-24 Thread ddemaio

Hi Beau,
I have a few points below.

On 2018-07-17 06:30, Beau Mathieson wrote:

Hi Doug,

Thanks for the welcoming response, to begin with I would like to
apologise for taking my time to get back to you. 

I could completely understand for the reasoning to ditch meetings
and I like the fact that the team is eager to increase adoption. I also
absolutely agree we should have a better arsenical of stock graphics 
for

our communications, and if we take a look at research conducted by
Twitter, posts containing videos or images had three times more
engagement then those that did not. Perhaps this is an area in which
would could collaborate with the Artwork team?


The branding guidelines were established a few years back - 
https://opensuse.github.io/branding-guidelines/ People have contributed 
in various ways and have done a good job using the guidelines. It would 
be great to have some stock images made like you suggest. The artwork 
team is aware of this, but it really comes down to time and there 
ability to make a unified theme of stock images.

 


What I would like to see is a unified approach to publishing content to
our major social media pages (Twitter and Facebook). For example,
the last post on the Facebook page was the 6th of July and if I be 
blunt

here the quality of the content on these pages is in my opinion
sub-standard. This is shown though the low engagement levels on
those pages, which the average engagement per post around about
10 retweets/likes, which is pretty poor
considering we have 61,000 followers on Twitter and 11,000 followers on
Facebook. What I believe we should do, is, create a strategy for 
perhaps

as an example, monthly marketing campaigns in which we base our content
on targeted demographics and their related use cases, while still
incorporating announcements/blogs in to the mix. I believe this 
approach

would help drive adoption. I would love to know whether or not we have
any social media analytics? I understand Twitter allows profiles to
view audience insights into both organic audiences and followers.I 
would

love to view the data from that.


Yes, this is a good idea and sometimes we are able to do this. I am able 
to add you as an editor to some of the social media pages if you would 
like to help with posts. We have different people with access and they 
post on occasion, especially when I am on leave like I had been the past 
two weeks. We could come up with some monthly themes and do some 
brainstorming if you are interested. We can create a page on 
https://etherpad.opensuse.org and put together some ideas. How does that 
sound?



v/r
Doug
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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Introduction

2018-06-25 Thread ddemaio

Hi Beau,

Thank you for emailing the marketing mailing list. Thank you for your 
willingness to help out. You are correct, the marketing meetings stopped 
a long time ago - https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_meeting


Overall, most of the marketing is done by people in the community who 
take it upon themselves to support and help the project at events 
globally. I'm the point of contact for ordering and sending out the 
marketing material. Of course the marketing topics can be discussed in 
greater detail on the mailing lists and I try my best to get the 
community what they need for events. Sometimes this can be rather 
challenging with sending items across boarders given all the difference 
regulations and policies of governments.


We lean toward not having committees, meeting, etc. like other projects 
and focus more on expanding the awareness of openSUSE and all the things 
you can do with the distributions and tools. Progress is happening, but 
since openSUSE is really a project full of projects, it can be quite 
challenging to get the correct message. Sometimes what might appear like 
an ununified marketing approach is actually intentional because we have 
projects that we believe should not have a strong openSUSE branding like 
http://port.us.org, http://machinery-project.org or 
https://www.uyuni-project.org. You might have noticed subtle changes 
taking place like software.o.o., opensuse.org, and the wiki all moving 
toward a branded look. Of course there are many other things to 
marketing and I think that we could improve on having some stock 
graphics for new releases and other topics like we did with 
https://news.opensuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/clear-748x1024.png.


Something for beginners like what GNOME has with 
https://www.gnome.org/get-involved/ and 
https://wiki.gnome.org/Newcomers/ could be useful for the project. Of 
course, anyone is free to start this on their own initiative.


I noticed your mention of metrics just this past weekend there was a 
post on the openSUSE factory mailing list regarding the metrics - 
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2018-06/msg00271.html. You 
can find the metrics at http://metrics.opensuse.org.


Thank you for your thoughts and I would certainly like to read more 
about any ideas you might have for expanding openSUSE's marketing efforts.


v/r

Doug



On 06/25/2018 06:28 AM, Beau Mathieson wrote:

Greetings,


I would like to introduce myself. I am an open-source enthusiast located
in Australia and who in the past contributed to the Fedora marketing
team, asides from that, I am a student currently studying a Bachelor of
Commerce at the University of Wollongong. I tend to change my
distributions every year or so from Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE, however
I decided to stick with OpenSUSE and thought I would contribute back to
the community. From the communications I have observed though mailing
archives, I have noted a noticeable lack of direction in marketing
strategies, a lack of team communication thought meetings (as observed
by the Meeting page) and a majority of the resources and priorities are
dated. These issues, in which I have identified will and presumably have
had an impact on the projects growth (measured by new adopters) and
overall consumer engagement. While there is some engagement between
contributors, event attendees, etc. If we consider the metrics, that
would account from a modest portion of our user base. I personally want
to see OpenSUSE grow as I am sure many of you do. I would love to hear
what some of you think about these issues or perhaps others in which I
have not identified, so please comment. I look forward to working with
you all.

Kind regards,

Beau Mathieson.



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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Introduction.

2011-05-16 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Tuesday 10 May 2011 13:44:47 Richard Clinker wrote:
 Hi there.  Nelson (ketheriel) suggested I join this mailing list after I
 responded to a forum thread about contributing to openSUSE.
 (http://forums.opensuse.org/english/other-forums/community-fun/surveys-poll
 s/459331-re-you-contributor.html)
 
 
 Well, I've put together the start of what could be an article something
 along the lines of what ketheriel had in mind.  You can find it at
 http://bumblebee.homelinux.net/openSUSE-article.odt.  I'd be grateful if
 those with the appropriate contacts could forward it on to maybe get
 some responses that'd go toward the finished piece so it can then be
 published wherever you see fit.  I hope it's a useful contribution.
 
 Best Regards,
 
 Rich
 (skaterich on the openSUSE forums.)
 http://uk.linkedin.com/in/richardclinker
Nice read. I think it would fit in a blog as it's a very personal experience. 
But there are also sites which might want to publish it, like muktware.com - 
they would, I think, like it quite a bit. Just add pictures and they'll get it 
out :D

If you'd like to, I can give you the mail of the editor.


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