Marketing & Communication Department Meeting 30 January 2018
By Sandra Decoux on 2018-01-31 15:03 in Marketing & Communication
Attendees
- Sandra Decoux - Department Coordinator
- Alison Meeks - Social Media Team Lead
- Mike Brandner - Community Translation Team Lead
- Parth Lawate - User & Research Strategy Team Lead
- Ufuk Avcu - Marketing Team Lead
- Noreen Cesareo (Market Accents) - Guest
Department Coordinator
- The Departement shared the 2018 marketing goals for review/approval by the teams.
- The Department Coordinator asked each Team Lead to review/comment the Calendar of Events prepared by Market Accents.
- Season greeting cards seem to have been received by most team members. Positive Feedback.
- The next department meeting will occur at the end of February with one topic: the presentation of the Marketing plan by Market Accents.
Marketing
The Team Lead will:
- Recontact the copywriters and other contributors to assign them tasks
- Re-activate the Marketing Facebook Group
- Translate the 10 German articles into English, with the help of the Community Translation Team Lead
- Establish the requirements for the design of wallpapers and plan for a “Wallpaper Contest” on Social Media in collaboration with the Social Media Team.
- Establish a team to work on the general Joomla video.
- The Marketing Team Lead asked that the User & Research Strategy issues on GitHub are moved to a separate and dedicated repository.
Social Media
- The team will start promoting the Joomla Extensions Directory parent categories soon. Shirat will create the imagery. It’s 30+ posts to mix in with other posts promoting our properties, events, news.
- David Messia joined the team. He contributed to Social Media during JWC and has been a great asset. He is in charge of the Joomla Pinterest account and will work on improving it.
- The Team Lead proposed to do a new Thank You campaign in the middle of the year, as the feedback was really positive.
- Further to the Marketing Team Lead and Market Accents’ idea, the team will launch a Valentine Day promotion asking Joomlers to share, via determined hashtags, sites they have done for charities (free) using Joomla.
- The Team will plan a strategy for online polls/surveys on Facebook and Twitter, in collaboration with the Marketing and the User & Research Strategy Teams.
Community Translation
The Landing Page project has been fully translated into Marathi. Translations have been merged to the live site.
2 new public projects have been set up and are available for translations:
- Forum Post Assistant (translations started into 8 languages) https://crowdin.com/project/joomla-patchtester
- Install from Web UI (already translated into 10 languages within 2 days) https://crowdin.com/project/miscelleanous
Translators are active on Crowdin. The Team Lead will recontact some translators to get some languages 100% translated.
The Team Lead is making regular posts on the dedicated Twitter account. https://twitter.com/JoomlaL10nC
User & Research Strategy
- The User & Research Strategy Team is looking for volunteers and will organise election for an Assistant Team Lead.
- The Team is at the disposal of all teams to see what surveys are needed and what should be the next ones, according to the needs of the Project.
- The Team Lead is working on action analysis and communication about the currently ongoing surveys about J4 awareness.
Meeting adjourned after 1 hour.