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Agenda: Global Marketing Team, 20 January 2021

What are we working on?

The team is continuing to support on a number of initiatives and tasks. The key focus is around:

We have lots of ways for contributors to get involved. Come to the weekly global meetings at 15:00 UTC on Slack (more details below) or contribute async in the 48 hours after the meeting if this time doesn’t work for your timezone and other commitments.

Contributor support sessions for early 2021 – open to those returning to the team and wanting a refresher and to those who have pledged to contribute under Five for the Future.

Follow and share our weekly highlight of WordPress Meetup events and news on Marketing team LinkedIn Page. Keep up with the #WPDiversity and #LearnWP announcements on the WordCamp Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Agenda

Thanks to everyone who gave input into this week’s agenda. Let us know if you have an item for next week.

Global Marketing Meeting on Wednesday 20 January 2021 at 15:00 UTC in the #Marketing channel on Slack.

1. Welcome
2a. Attendance Thread
2b. New contributors
3. Review last week’s meeting notes and actions/task updates
4. Celebrations of Marketing Team achievements
5. Update on tasks
6. Collaboration sessions – including contributing for social media posts to promote the Induction sessions, monthly promotions, and more.
7. Tasks for the week
8. Diary dates
9. Any other business
10. End of weekly meeting and update on collaboration sessions for rest of the week

Where I can find other information?

Updates on other tasks and previous meeting notes are in our team Google drive. The link is shared in the meeting and is pinned in our Slack channel. Summaries are posted on this blog.

Marketing Team homepage

WordPress Quarter 3 2020 Update (Quarter 4 update coming soon)

Induction sessions for new and returning contributors

Four induction sessions are planned for both newer contributors and those who have been in the team for some team but need more assistance to help them contribute.

Session 1 took place on Tuesday 19 January 2021. To participate in the rest of the induction sessions, please sign-up for the events to be held on:

  • Session 2: Tuesday 2 February 2021, at 11:00 UTC
  • Session 3: Tuesday 16 February 2021, at 11:00 UTC
  • Session 4: Tuesday 2 March 2021, at 11:00 UTC

Forthcoming diary dates

Upcoming Diary Dates at this dedicated post.

Notes: Global Marketing meeting 13 January 2021

Introduction

These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and to assist with an asynchronous contribution to the Global Marketing Team. For those unable to attend a meeting due to timezone issues, please do join the discussion threads after the meeting and send your updates. 

Attendees Slack Thread

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Meeting Notes

A big thanks to @lmurillom, @meher and, @webcommsat for contributing to drafting last week’s meeting notes. Note: Please review and add comments in suggestion mode – link in the Slack. These notes will be updated as appropriate.

A reminder to check the draft notes is circulated at the meeting every week. Please review and check your WordPress.org ID is listed on collaborations that you have actively contributed too. We rely on this to update the final notes and to put into our charts to show where we need extra contributors, and how we are having an input and impact onto the work assigned / requested from other teams. 

Rota for drafting notes:

➤ How can I help?

You can volunteer to contribute to notes for future meetings. Please note that the initial draft is needed by Friday 17.00 UTC each week to help with actions and follow-ups that might be needed. We are super excited that we continue to expand our contributors who are helping draft the notes!

Welcoming new contributors

New Attendees Welcome Thread

Marketing Contributor introductory sessions in 2021 – booking details

Get involved – starter tasks for new and returning contributors, and those who have pledged to support the team and need assistance to get started

Tasks, Working Groups, and Team Celebration

Celebrations Thread

The team is continuing to support a number of initiatives and tasks. Lots to celebrate including work on:   

  • Learn WordPress meetup promotion planning
  • Follow-ups on Polyglots one plan for 2021
  • Progress on the Questions and Answers for releases
  • Meetup promotions
  • Promoting the latest WordPress release
  • Ongoing planning for Newsletters
  • People of WordPress series
  • Annual review and contributing to Quarterly Reporting
  • Supporting Contributor events
  • Assisting new Contributors
  • Support and partnerships with the Training team 
  • Ongoing support to the contributor working group in Community  

Follow and share our weekly highlight of WordPress Meetup events and news on the Marketing team LinkedIn Page. Keep up with the #WPDiversity and #LearnWP announcements on the WordCamp and WordPress Events Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Task Updates 

Contributor Support Sessions

Update from the task group by: @maedahbatool

We have 4 biweekly sessions planned starting January 19th.

Contributor support dates announced for 2021

  1. Session 1 – Tuesday 19 January 2021 at 11:00 am UTC (DONE)
  2. Session 2 – Tuesday 2 February 2021 at 11:00 am UTC
  3. Session 3 – Tuesday 16 February 2021 at 11:00 am UTC
  4. Session 4 – Tuesday 2 March 2021 at 11:00 am UTC

You’ll find more info in this post, and the sign up form.

Online WordPress Meetups

Update from the task groups by: @webcommsat, @meher

  • We are working on wider circulation of these on official channels and to tie in with the work we are doing on Learn WordPress.
  • You can share our weekly highlight of WordPress Meetup events and news on the Marketing team LinkedIn Page 
  • Keep up with the #WPDiversity and #LearnWP announcements on the WordCamp Twitter and Facebook accounts.
  • Please share our weekly #OnlineWPMeetup roundup on LinkedIn.

Onboarding Videos

Update via co-ordinating team member: @oglekler 

  • We have new onboarding videos in the playlist on the WordPress Marketing Team channel on YouTube. Thanks to all who have helped create on-boarding videos in different languages.  
  • If you don’t see your language in this playlist, contact @oglekler to find out how to get started contributing in your own language.
  • Hindi, Japanese, Arabic and Persian are in progress.

Workshop Preparation for Developers and Internationalization

Update forwarded for the co-ordinating task member: @nalininonstopnewsuk

  • This is a priority item. @MegPhillips91 will arrange a Doodle poll to get a meeting date in the next week or so for all the developers who have agreed to support this task. Thanks Meg.

Monthly WordPress Contribution Resolutions  

Update on behalf of co-ordinating task member: @mikerbg and @oglekler

  • Due to the global situation, we are updating the new year’s resolutions campaign into a focus on areas you can contribute to or learn about each month in 2021. Thanks to @mikerbg and @oglekler for facilitating this task.
  • We will be coming back to this at next week’s meeting, so please do add any more content to this document in the meantime (link in Slack). 
  • What we are seeking for is content to promote ways people can get involved with the various Make teams.

Starter Tasks

Update on behalf of the projects and actions group

  • We have had some volunteers already, but there are many more opportunities to contribute.
  • The priority tasks from this post linked above, are to continue: 
    • collating / updating the list of WordCamps running contributor events
    • creating a resources file to showcase WordCamp promotions and help smaller camps and teams are the most urgent items. 
    • Can you help with these?
  • Please let us know if you can give some time to one or more of these tasks.

Subtitling Tasks

Update on behalf of the subtitling task teams: @webcommsat

  • Learn WordPress: we need more volunteers to help with subtitling the promotional videos.
  • Subtitling videos which market WordPress: we have a priority list of materials that will also help promote the Learn WordPress and contributor day content. Volunteers needed.
  • There will be a training meeting with Pascal for those who have been involved with subtitling for some time. @oglekler will co-ordinate a date for this.  

Social Media Graphics Tasks

This is an urgent task. Do you have photo-editing experience? Let us know. It does not necessarily require previous experience of WordPress, just access and skills for using photo-editing tools, resizing images and compression knowledge. 

Action: Add your name to the slack discussion or add a note in the marketing channel itself and include @meher in the message

Personas Work

Update via: @webcommsat

  • Thanks to everyone who has volunteered who has experience of marketing personas. If you have not had a chance to add your name, please reply to this thread.
  • @herculespekkas will arrange a task group meeting on this starting in early February 2021 [date updated].

Tasks for the Week and Actions

Update from the projects group

  • Upcoming Meetup newsletter: We will be working on items for this. If you have any suggestions for it or want to join the task group working on this, please reply to this thread
  • People of WordPress series: thanks to members of the task group working on finalizing the content for January 2021. Can you help with graphics editing and resizing for ongoing promotion? Please reply in this thread or in the main marketing slack and include @yvettesonneveld 
  • Release and core associated marcomms: if you are a developer who has not already expressed interest in giving time and sharing your skills with these tasks, please let us know as we will be setting forthcoming meeting dates in the coming weeks. @technocrews will co-ordinate a meeting on the work we are doing to help marketers better understand trac, core etc. 
  • Plugins-related marcomms: @ugyensupport has offered to help facilitate, building on the work he has been doing on this for the team. If you have a background in this area particularly as a technical writer or developer, please reply in the thread or in the marketing slack channel and include Ugyen’s ID in the message so he can add your details to a list.
  • Learn WordPress: lesson plan promotion ideas and mapping meetings are being planned for early February 2021. If you have a background in lesson plans, training or communicating and marketing this type of content, we would value you joining us. You don’t need to have a detailed knowledge of the WordPress space. We will be doing this jointly with the Training, Community and Marketing task group on marcomms. If you are interested in giving time to this on a weekly basis, please reply to this thread.
  • There are more tasks coming up in the week, so do check the Marketing Slack for updates.

If you find threads difficult to use, then we have training available on using Slack or you can use the main channel on Slack and just include the Slack ID of the relevant person involved. We use threads to help with asynchronous contribution across time zones and to help those who find it difficult to follow a discussion on a particular task in a busy meeting. But we know threads don’t work for everyone and we are keen to help all get involved. 

Collaborations and Planning

Encouraging Pledgers to become Active Contributors

Task:  We have more than 700 pledges to the Marketing team, but have a much lower number of active contributors. We want to reach pledgers and encourage them to become more involved.  

This is being facilitated by: @harryjackson1221, @meher, @nalininonstopnewsuk and a task group

Collaboration Slack Thread 

  • We have been expanding some thinking around this since December 2020 with the wider team. 
  • We have received input on this from other teams/ parts of the project and are continuing research. Please start to jot down ideas in the shared document (link in Slack). 
  • We will be having separate collaboration sessions for this starting at the end January 2021
  • If you are interested in working on this and taking responsibility for particular areas, please reply in the thread so we can include you in the Doodle Poll to find a time across the time zones.
  • This means that we can include dates and times in the relevant time zones of those who are able to contribute to this during the next six months. This task group will meet twice weekly, and sometimes more often, with async contribution in between.

Planning and diary 

Actions relating to dates

(More details in the main meeting notes)

  1. Awaiting draft dates and times from the Learn WordPress working group’s meetings. @webcommsat to liaise with @evarlese
  2. @megphillips91 to liaise with developer task group volunteers to set a date for the planning meeting for the developer resources and workshop on internationalizing strings / preparing your code for translation. Date TBA.
  3. @technocrews will help co-ordinate a meeting on the work we are doing to help marketers better understand trac, core etc. Date to be set
  4. @herculespekkas to arrange a task group meeting on personas work in early February 2021
  5. @ugyensupport to help facilitate plugin marcomms, to help how we break up the Plugin questions. Date TBA
  6. @meher to send out a Doodle Poll after the Wednesday 20 Jan 2021 meeting for the first two meetings of the task group collaborating on encouraging pledgers to get involved. 
  7. Meher to liaise with @harishanker on publishing dates, from which we can set marketing deadlines for WordPress Meetup newsletter and Month in WordPress deadline dates, into Marketing Team public calendar 
    1. January 2021 – The Month in WordPress: Publishing date: February 3, 2021
    2. February 2021 – Meetup organizer newsletter: Publishing date: February 12, 2021
  8. Learn WordPress interview dates – TBA 

Forthcoming Diary Dates

Check this separate post which has information related to the forthcoming diary dates.

Change in global meeting times

Following feedback and surveys, we are changing the Global Marketing meeting time to accommodate as many people as possible.

  • 6 January 2021 to 24 March 2021 inclusive, 15:00 UTC
  • 31 March 2021 until 31st October 2021 inclusive, 14:00 UTC
  • 3 November 2021 until Daylight Saving Time change in Europe, 15:00 UTC

Next Marketing meeting

Wednesday 20 January 2021, 15:00 UTC – Global Marketing Team meeting in the #marketing channel on Slack

➤ How to get started?

If you were in the Marketing Team meeting and would like some extra help to get started to contribute to the project, contact @maedahbatool for information on future Contributors Onboarding events.

#contributor-onboarding, #new-contributors, #onlinewpmeetup

Notes: Global Marketing meeting 6 January 2021

Introduction

These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and to assist with an asynchronous contribution to the Global Marketing Team. For those unable to attend a meeting due to timezone issues, please do join the discussion threads and tasks on Trello after the meeting and send your updates. 

Attendees Slack Thread

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Meeting Notes

A big thanks to @lmurillom and @meher and @webcommsat for contributing to drafting last week’s meeting notes.
Note: Please review and add comments in suggestion mode – link in the Slack. These notes will be updated as appropriate.

A reminder to check the draft notes is circulated at the meeting every week. Please review and check your WordPress.org ID is listed on collaborations that you have actively contributed too. We rely on this to update the final notes and to put into our charts to show where we need extra contributors, and how we are having an input and impact onto the work assigned / requested from other teams. 

Rota for drafting notes:

➤ How can I help?

You can volunteer to contribute to notes for future meetings. Please note that the initial draft is needed by Friday 17.00 UTC each week to help with actions and follow-ups that might be needed.

Welcoming new contributors

New Attendees Welcome Thread

Marketing Contributor introductory sessions in 2021 – booking details

Get involved – starter tasks for new and returning contributors, and those who have pledged to support the team and need assistance to get started

Tasks, Working Groups, and Team Celebration

Celebrations Thread

Here’s everything that is worth celebrating and task updates during the last week:

  • Marketing and communications campaign for Launch WordPress
  • Newsletter Tasks
  • On-boarding Videos
  • LinkedIn Updates
  • Personas work
  • WordCamp Sevilla
  • Contributor Introductory Sessions

Task Updates 

Marketing and Communications Campaign for Learn WordPress

Update from the task groups by: @webcommsat and @nalininonstopnewsuk

  • As there are a lot of countries with Covid announcements this week, we have delayed some of our planned Learn WordPress promotions to be sensitive to this and to respond to contributors involved. If you can help with this while some of our contributors are dealing with Covid situations, please let @meher know.
  • Video subtitling of polyglots and Learn WordPress promotions continues and is taking a little longer to do due to YouTube’s updates to its studio editing environment. If you can help with this, please let us know. It is really important items are subtitled and synchronized correctly by time.
  • Thanks to @geheren who will be helping us with editing some of the video materials we have for Learn WordPress promotions.
  • Graphic editing – we have a backlog of items for Learn and other teams. If you have skills in this area and can edit for social media sizes, please let us know.
  • Please read this post to see some of the different ways you can help promote Learn WordPress. 

➤ How can I help? 

Newsletter Tasks

Update from coordinating team member: @webcommsat

  • For the December 2020 Month in WordPress, we pulled together items for the preceding few weeks with other teams and took part in writing and copy-editing. There are updates on Learn WordPress, online WordPress Meetups and the 5.6 Release. You can read all the details in the post.
  • @webcommsat has been working with @annezazu on promoting the FSE-experiment outreach.  
  • As the publishing cycle continues, we will start work on: 
    • Newsletter for WordPress Meetups
    • Month in WordPress January 2021
    • Q4 Updates
    • Updates in general
    • Learn WordPress highlights for promotion

Onboarding Videos

Update via co-ordinating team member: @webcommsat for @oglekler 

  • Thanks to all who have helped create on-boarding videos in different languages. Take a look at the Marketing YouTube channel for all the videos in different languages.
  • For the Hindi version, thanks to @yashwardhanrana who has been working to sync the audio and video together, and thanks to @rahuldsarker who helped with this task earlier.
  • If there is a language which is still not done and would you like to help, do reach out to @oglekler and she will assist you with it.

LinkedIn Updates

Update from co-ordinating team member: @lmurillom

The Marketing Team had a busy week of work and planning. Please do follow, share, and like our updates on LinkedIn. It’s quick and helps extend our reach.

Some of the examples from the Make WordPress Marketing Team channel on LinkedIn:

➤ How can I help? 

Contribute by sharing the social media posts with the hashtag #LearnWP.  

Please share announcements like the ones above, which you can find on the Make WordPress Marketing Team LinkedIn.

Personas work

Update via co-ordinating team member: @webcommsat

  • We will be setting task group dates for the Personas work starting next week. If you have experience in this area and would like to work on some of the advanced tasks that we will be focusing on in January and February, let @meher and @nalininonstopnewsuk know. Thanks to @herculespekkas and @sthakor who have been doing some work on this already, building on previous work in the team. 

WordCamp Sevilla 2020

Update from co-ordinating team member: @lmurillom

  • @vimes1984 and @lmurillom attended WordCamp Sevilla, at the Marketing and Training tables respectively, from December 26-29 2020. It was an event focused entirely on contributing, and there was very high attendance and engagement during the four day event.
  • There was a call for the Spanish marketing team to attend any of the global marketing meetings or coffee breaks. Larissa Murillo, Chris Churchill, Nilo Velez and others from the global marketing team will be monitoring and participating in the WP Spain Slack to see where there are further opportunities for cross team collaboration and information sharing.  
  • The Training table was on the last day of the event, and Larissa attended for both Marketing and Training Teams. She was able to support the cross-team effort on Learn WordPress as a fluent Spanish speaker. 
    • Most of the questions and content revolved around the Learn WordPress launch. There was a lot of interests regarding:
      • when it will be available in Spanish, submission of workshops
      • the Translation table was eager to know when and how they can help with adding captions in Spanish to the currently available workshops
      • the Accessibility table also made themselves available to explain what needs to be taken into account
    • During the event, there was also work done adding to the Questions and Answers on Learn WordPress and the collaboration produced by @webcommsat and @sthakor into Spanish, considered tasks outlined by @courane01 and talked about what’s in store for Learn WordPress
  • Many people were interested in the Learn WordPress initiative, in what the Training team does, and also willing to participate. Thanks to @courane01 and @azhiyadev for their support and preparation work beforehand. Many thanks and congratulations to @nilovelez and the organising team for such a successful event.

Contributor Introductory Sessions

Update from co-ordinating team member: @yvettesonneveld

  • If you are a new contributor and would like to learn more about the WordPress project, the tasks the Marketing Team works on, the tools we use and get some tips on how to make contributing fun and easy, join us for our contributor introduction sessions.
  • These sessions are for new contributors, returners to the team, and those who have pledged to support the marketing team but need some guidance on where to start.
  • Every week we also publish tasks linked to the agenda and on the Marketing Slack to help people get started or find a next task.
  • We have four biweekly sessions planned starting 19 January 2021. You will find more information about these sessions and dates in this post
  • Please complete the form to sign-up.

Collaborations and Planning

Social Media Post Drafts for contributor introduction sessions

Task:  We have planned new contributor introductory sessions, and we need help to get the word out about them. We would like to reach more people who are considering contributing to WordPress in general and to our team in particular.

Led by: @yvettesonneveld

Collaboration Slack Thread 

Collaborations during the meeting and async included discussions and comments about what moves us to contribute, as well as drafting social media posts into a Google document.

@maedahbatool, @webcommsat and @yvettesonneveld will start final editing on the document on Monday 10 January 2021. There will be further opportunities to collaborate on content and promotion of these events in the future. Contact Maedah and Yvette if you would like to assist this.

Forthcoming Diary Dates

If you need accessibility or language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel on Slack. We are keen to continue to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 15:00 UTC – Global Marketing Team meeting in the #marketing channel on Slack

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 05:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC – DevChat in #core channel on Slack. Notes from last week’s DevChat

Thursday 14 January 2021, 19:30 UTC – Virtual coffee break in the #marketing channel on Slack

Thank you everyone who has joined, attended, and updated the meeting, or contributed asynchronously in the last few days. 

Next Marketing meeting

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 15:00 UTC – Global Marketing Team meeting in the #marketing channel on Slack

➤ How to get started?

If you were in the Marketing Team meeting and would like some extra help to get started to contribute to the project, contact @maedahbatool for information on future Contributors Onboarding events.

Forthcoming diary dates

Updates are also published in our weekly agendas and meeting notes.

If you need accessibility or language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel on Slack. We are keen to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.

Tuesday 19 January 2021, 11:00 am UTC – First induction session. You will find more info in this post, and the sign up form.

Wednesday 20 January 2021, 15:00 UTC – Global Marketing Team meeting in the #marketing channel on Slack

Wednesday 20 January 2021, 05:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC – DevChat in #core channel on Slack. Notes from last week’s DevChat.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 20:00 UTC (new time to allow slot for preparation of topic-based events) – Virtual coffee break in the #marketing channel on Slack.

Tuesday 2 February 2021, 11:00 am UTC – Second induction session. More info in this post and the sign up form.

Thursday 4 February 2021, 20:00 UTC – Virtual coffee break focusing on a marketing topic

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 11:00 am UTC – Third induction session. More info in this post and the sign up form.

Tuesday 2 March 2021, 11:00 am UTC – Fourth induction session. More info in this post and the sign up form.

Thursday 4 February 2021, 20:00 UTC – Virtual coffee break focusing on a marketing topic

Change in global meeting times

Following feedback and surveys, we are changing the Global Marketing meeting time to accommodate as many people as possible. 

  • 6 January 2021 to 24 March 2021 inclusive, 15:00 UTC
  • 31 March 2021 until 31st October 2021 inclusive, 14:00 UTC 
  • 3 November 2021 until Daylight Saving Time change in Europe, 15:00 UTC

#marketing, #marketing-agenda, #marketing-team, #marketing-team-diary

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Agenda: Global Marketing Team, 13 January 2021

What are we working on?

The team is continuing to support on a number of initiatives and tasks. The key focus is around:

  • Learn WordPress
  • follow-ups on Polyglots items
  • Meetup promotions
  • promoting the latest WordPress release
  • newsletters
  • People of WordPress series
  • annual review and contributing to quarterly reporting
  • supporting contributor events
  • assisting new contributors

We have lots of ways for contributors to get involved. Come to the weekly global meetings at 15:00 UTC on Slack (more details below) or contribute async in the 48 hours after the meeting if this time doesn’t work for your timezone and other commitments.

Contributor support sessions for early 2021 – open to those returning to the team and wanting a refresher and to those who have pledged to contribute under Five for the Future.

Follow and share our weekly highlight of WordPress Meetup events and news on Marketing team LinkedIn Page. Keep up with the #WPDiversity and #LearnWP announcements on the WordCamp Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Agenda

Thanks to everyone who gave input into this week’s agenda. Let us know if you have an item for next week.

Global Marketing Meeting on Wednesday 13 January 2020 at 15:00 UTC in the #Marketing channel on Slack.

1. Welcome
2a. Attendance Thread
2b. New contributors
3. Review last week’s meeting notes and actions/task updates
4. Celebrations of Marketing Team achievements
5. Update on tasks
6. Collaboration sessions – including contributing for social media posts to promote the Induction sessions, monthly promotions, and more.
7. Tasks for the week
8. Diary dates
9. Any other business
10. End of weekly meeting and update on collaboration sessions for rest of the week

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Where I can find other information?

Updates on other tasks and previous meeting notes are in our team Google drive. The link is shared in the meeting and is pinned in our Slack channel. Summaries are posted on this blog. We have a short gap of posts from earlier in the year due to access and resource issues, thanks to @lmurillom who is working through these.

Marketing Team homepage

WordPress Quarter 3 2020 Update (Quarter 4 update coming soon)

Induction session for new and returning contributors

Four induction sessions are planned for both newer contributors and those who have been in the team for some team but need more assistance to help them contribute.

In order to be a part of all the induction sessions, please sign-up for the events to be held on:

  • Session 1: Tuesday 19 January 2021, at 11:00 am UTC
  • Session 2: Tuesday 2 February 2021, at 11:00 am UTC
  • Session 3: Tuesday 16 February 2021, at 11:00 am UTC
  • Session 4: Tuesday 2 March 2021, at 11:00 am UTC

Forthcoming diary dates

If you need accessibility or language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel. We are keen to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.

Monday 11 & Tuesday 12 January 2021, collaborations on People of WordPress and Quarter 4 reporting.

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 14:00 UTC, in the Marketing Channel on Make WordPress Slack.

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 05:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC – DevChat in #Core Slack channel

Thursday 14 January 2021, 19:30 UTC – Virtual coffee break, Marketing Slack channel.

Induction session dates are above.

Change in global meeting times

Following feedback and surveys, we are changing the Global Marketing meeting time to accommodate as many people as possible.

  • 6 January 2021 to 24 March 2021 inclusive, 15:00 UTC
  • 31 March 2021 until 31st October 2021 inclusive, 14:00 UTC
  • 3 November 2021 until Daylight Saving Time change in Europe, 15:00 UTC

#marketing#onlinewpmeetup

Agenda: Global Marketing Team 6 January 2021

Change in meeting time

Following feedback and surveys, we are changing the Global Marketing meeting time to 15:00 UTC until 31 March 2021.

From 31 March 2021 until 31st October 2021 we will shift back to 14:00 UTC to accommodate as many people as possible.

From 3 November 2021 onwards we will go back to 15:00 UTC.

What are we working on?

The team is continuing to support Learn WordPress, follow-ups on Polyglots items, Meetup promotions, promoting the latest WordPress release, and more.

We have lots of ways for contributors to get involved. Come to the weekly global meetings at 15:00 UTC on Slack (more details below) or contribute async in the 48 hours after the meeting if this time does not work for your timezone and other commitments.

Contributor support sessions for early 2021 – open to those returning to the team and wanting a refresher and to those who have pledged to contribute under Five for the Future.

Follow and share our weekly highlight of WordPress Meetup events and news on Marketing team LinkedIn Page. Keep up with the #WPDiversity and #LearnWP announcements on the WordCamp Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Agenda

Thanks to @yvettesonneveld, @webcommsat, @meher and @lmurillom for working on the agenda for this week with input from the wider team. Let us know if you have an item for next week.

Global Marketing Meeting on Wednesday 6 January 2020 at 15:00 UTC in the #Marketing channel on Slack.

1. Welcome
2a. Attendance Thread
2b. New contributors
3. Review last week’s meeting notes and actions/task updates
4. Update on tasks
5. Contribute for social media posts to promote the Induction sessions
6. Tasks for the week and AOB
7. End of weekly meeting

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Where I can find other information?

Updates on other tasks and previous meeting notes are in our Google doc. The link is shared in the meeting and is pinned in our Slack channel. Summaries are being posted on the blog, access has recently been re-established to enable this.

Marketing Team homepage

WordPress Quarter 3 2020 Update

Induction Session for new and returning Contributors

We have planned four induction sessions planned for both newer contributors and those who have been in the team for some team but need more assistance to help them contribute.

In order to be a part of all the induction sessions, please keep note of the following dates:

  • Session 1: Tuesday 19 January 2021, at 11:00 am UTC
  • Session 2: Tuesday 2 February 2021, at 11:00 am UTC
  • Session 3: Tuesday 16 February 2021, at 11:00 am UTC
  • Session 4: Tuesday 2 March 2021, at 11:00 am UTC

We would truly appreciate all the participants to sign-up for the session.

Thank you to @maedahbatool, @yvettesonneveld, @webcommsat and @OGlekler for working on the induction and introduction support.

Forthcoming diary dates

If you need accessibility or language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel. We are keen to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.

Wednesday 6 January 2021, 14:00 UTC, in the Marketing Channel on Make WordPress Slack.

Wednesday, 6 January 2021, 05:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC – Dev Chat in #Core Slack channel

There will be no virtual coffee break this Thursday as there are two WordPress.org meetings which involve the marketing team members on that day. Thank you for your understanding.

Induction session dates are above.

#marketing, #onlinewpmeetup

Notes: Global Marketing meeting 23 December 2020

Introduction

These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and to assist with an asynchronous contribution to the Global Marketing Team. For those unable to attend a meeting due to timezone issues, please do join the discussion threads and tasks on Trello after the meeting and send your updates. 

Attendees Slack Thread

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Meeting Notes

A big thanks to @oglekler and @lmurillom for contributing to drafting last week’s meeting notes. Note: Please review and add comments in suggestion mode – link in the Slack. These notes will be updated as appropriate.

A reminder to check the draft notes is circulated at the meeting every week. Please review and check your WordPress.org ID is listed on collaborations that you have actively contributed too. We rely on this to update the final notes and to put into our charts to show where we need extra contributors and how we are having an input and impact onto the work assigned / requested from other teams. 

Rota for drafting notes:

➤ How can I help?

You can volunteer to contribute to notes for future meetings. Please note that the initial draft is needed by Friday 17.00 UTC each week to help with actions and follow-ups that might be needed.

Welcoming new contributors

New Attendees Welcome Thread

Marketing Contributor introductory sessions in 2021 – booking details

Get involved – starter tasks for new and returning contributors, and those who have pledged to support the team and need assistance to get started

Tasks, Working Groups, and Team Celebration

Celebrations Thread

Here’s everything that is worth celebrating and task updates during the last week:

  • Marketing and communications campaign for Launch WordPress
  • 5.6 Release and Core-Related Updates
  • Project management and async contribution
  • LinkedIn Updates
  • New time for Global Marketing meetings
  • Diverse speaker training promotions
  • Any other updates/ items

Task Updates 

Marketing and Communications Campaign for Learn WordPress

Update from the task groups by: @webcommsat and @nalininonstopnewsuk

  • We are keeping many of the Learn promo videos as small, direct recording clips to enable more of those who have contributed over many years to have a chance to be involved in our promotions for the resource.
  • We will have a few branded versions of the videos to use for wider circulation, but as content is still developing for Learn WordPress and it has taken hundreds of people to get to this point, we want to try and get a balance between the presentation of the short clips.
  • We are aware that at this time many contributors are having difficulty with zoom and other video recording due to pressure on broadband services and limited access in some countries. We wanted to acknowledge that as Learn WordPress is a community resource produced by the community itself. Thanks to those who have contributed to how we present this to promote that inclusiveness and awareness, as well as acknowledging the access issues to video and broadband services varies considerably around the world.
  • We are working on a six month campaign for Learn WordPress so there will be lots of opportunities for you to get involved and to share it too!
  • Please read this post to see all the ways you can help promote Learn WordPress. 

➤ How can I help? 

5.6 Release and Core-Related Updates

Task Updates from contributing group member: @meher

➤ How can I help?

  • We need further input from those familiar with the release and what landed on working on the suggested social media posts and creating content around the Q&As. Could you help with this? Please mention @lmurillom in the marketing channel on Slack if you can have been following the release and can assist.
  • To promote the release, please share social media posts with the hashtag #WPRelease across LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. 

Project management and async contribution

Update: on behalf of the team reps and projects group given by @webcommsat

Thank you to everyone who has inputted into the work we have been doing on project management and tools, and the testing. Many of our cross team tasks once they come out of the initial planning stage will be updated and tracked on GitHub. Thanks to @vimes1984 and @marks99 in particular for the work they have done on testing and setting up items, and for helping us with further work on this.

We have done a lot of work on sorting and updating tasks on the Trello board. We have also themed the ones in the ‘in progress’ channel to help new contributors / pledgers, returning contributors who have had a break and those looking for a related task. The testing has been invaluable and a big thank you to Nalini and the accessibility task group for their testing and list of issues that have difficulties for access.

We have tested various ways to help people contribute to async. We do have some final testing on this. Please can you let @meher know if you would be available to test and give feedback.

Thanks to @vimes1984 who has been giving input into details that organizations need to help their staff/ teams contribute. This has been very helpful and we are grateful for your time on this, and to @marks99 and the meetups that are giving input into how meetups can help their members get started. A big thank you to @andrewleonard who has joined the slack and has been giving us some assistance on a number of areas including, working with @bobbingwide and @OGlekler on tickets.

Google sheet / project management experience

We have also been working on a project management system which logs all enquiries, potential collaborations and the links to the information and messages.

➤ How can I help?

If you have a project management background and can help with this, please let me know. It has been a significant asset to us as a team and enabled us to better support other teams, share updates and build a GutHub process.

LinkedIn Updates

Update from co-ordinating team member: @lmurillom

The marketing team had a busy week of work and planning. Lots of happenings and announcements. Please do follow, share, and like our updates on LinkedIn. It’s quick and helps extend our reach.

Some of the examples from the Make WordPress Marketing Team channel on LinkedIn:

➤ How can I help? 

Contribute by sharing the social media posts with the hashtag #LearnWP.  

Please share announcements like the ones above, which you can find on the Make WordPress Marketing Team LinkedIn.

New time for Global Marketing meetings

We are aware many of our members are unable to join us until 15:00 UTC and we have been holding off on some of our collaborations in recent weeks with the change in daylight saving time to accommodate this.

So far, around 62% of the people have voted for 15:00 UTC.

Please complete this scheduling form to help us work out if we need to change the Global #marketing meeting time from January. We will announce the new timing in January 2021. 

Diverse speaker training promotions

Update from task group member: @nalininonstopnewsuk 

WordCamp Sevilla

WordCamp Sevilla takes place on the 26, 27, 28 and 29 of December 2020. Each day is going to be an online contributor day in which multiple teams will be together in the same room:

  • 26 Dec 2020: Design and Marketing
  • 27 Dec 2020: Core, Themes, Plugins and Hosting
  • 28 Dec 2020: WordPressTV, Community and Support
  • 29 Dec 2020: Accessibility, Polyglots, Docs, Training

Members from the global marketing team will be attending the Marketing table and will be helping with the Training table. Thanks to @nilovelez for involving the teams.

➤ How can I help? 

If you are a Spanish speaker and can help with the marketing for the global team at this event, please mention @lmurillom on the Marketing Slack. She will be facilitating our global input together with @vimes1984.  

Any other updates/ items

Calls were made for any further updates on tasks during the meeting and in the agenda planning earlier in the week.

We are aware a number of contributors have had to step away during the meeting due to announcements on COVID restrictions that are taking place. Thinking of you and thanks for letting us know.

Collaborations and planning

Encouraging Pledgers

Task: Early in 2021 we will be spending some time on this area, starting on 6 January. We are sharing this today to help contributors start thinking about how we can encourage those who have pledged to take an active part in the marketing team. Additionally, we will be working on clarifying the difference between adding your name to a pledge to give back via Marketing Team and actively taking part in the team, and helping people become more active on tasks. 

This collaboration will be led by:  @harryjackson1221

Slack thread: http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20210129175921/https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0GKJ7TFA/p1608735983052700 

Update from 18 December 2020 collaboration meetings

Hello everyone. Well done to everyone involved with the Learn WordPress and State of the Word. A big shout out to the project team and the marcomms training task group who have worked very long hours this week for the launch of Learn WordPress, and to those supporting the release communications.

We have a few collaborations today, let us know if you are around to help. We try at our task group collaboration sessions spread across the week to dedicate a slot for a short coffee break.

If you have not collaborated before but have skills in social media graphics work, photo editing, are an experienced developer familiar with the latest WordPress release, we can help you get started. We also have induction sessions for new contributors in January.

More information on this introduction sessions, tasks to get started and more, can be found on the Marketing Team homepage.

You can also contribute asynchronously to the collaborations and task updates from our weekly global meeting until 3pm UTC today (just scroll up for this week’s meeting).

This is our most urgent task today. Followed by Learn WordPress ongoing items.

Thanks to @webcommsat, @meher, @vimes1984, @lmurillom, @OGlekler, @marks99 and @MegPhillips91 who will continue to work on this during the next few days. Thanks to @angelasjin @DaisyO and @annezazu who have also contributed to this too in the last few weeks.

Do let us know if you are an experienced developer, familiar with the current release, and can assist too.

Forthcoming Diary Dates

If you need accessibility or language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel. We are keen to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.

Wednesday 23 December, 14:00 UTC – Global Marketing Team meeting in #Marketing Slack channel led by @meher and @nalininonstopnewsuk

Thursday 24 December 2020 As it is Christmas eve and holiday in some countries, we will not be holding a Virtual Coffee Break. Back in January 2021 with our new programme of themed events.

Wednesday 30 December, 14:00 UTC – there will be no Global Marketing Team meeting

Wednesday, 30 December 2020, 5:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC – Dev Chat in #Core Slack channel

Thursday 31 December 2020 – As it is New Year eve, we are not having a Virtual Coffee Break, Marketing. We are planning themed Coffee Break sessions for 2021! Add your ideas to the spreadsheet.

Wednesday, 6 January 2021, 5:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC – Dev Chat in #Core Slack channel

Thank you everyone who has joined, attended, and updated the meeting, or contributed asynchronously in the last few days. 

Next Marketing meeting

We will be back on 6 January 2021.

➤ How to get started?

If you were in the Marketing Team meeting and would like some extra help to get started to contribute to the project, contact @maedahbatool to get information about the next New Contributors Onboarding meeting.

#5-6-release, #learn-wordpress, #onlinewpmeetup, #wpdiversity

Notes: Global Marketing meeting 16 December 2020

Introduction

These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and to assist with an asynchronous contribution to the Global Marketing Team. For those unable to attend a meeting due to timezone issues, please do join the discussion threads and tasks on Trello after the meeting and send your updates. 

Attendees Slack Thread

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Meeting Notes

A big thanks to @lmurillom for contributing to drafting last week’s meeting notes. Note: Please review and add comments in suggestion mode – link in the Slack. These notes will be updated as appropriate.

Rota:

23 Dec: @meher

➤ How can I help?

You can volunteer to contribute to notes for future meetings. Please note that the initial draft is needed by Friday 17.00 UTC each week to help with actions and follow-ups that might be needed.

Welcoming new contributors

New Attendees Welcome Thread

The new Learn WordPress resource can help you get started

Marketing Contributor introductory sessions in 2021 – booking details

Get involved – starter tasks for new and returning contributors, and those who have pledged to support the team and need assistance to get started

Tasks, Working Groups, and Team Celebration

Celebrations Thread

Celebrating and task updates during the last week:

  • Marketing and communications campaign for Learn WordPress
  • 5.6 Release and Core – Related Updates
  • LinkedIn Updates
  • New time for Global Marketing meetings
  • New Years Web Resolutions

Task Updates 

Marketing and Communications Campaign for Learn WordPress

➤ How can I help? 

  • Help us promote Learn WordPress
  • More material is being created. If you would like to work on this and have video editing, photo editing, experience of social media management in a corporate or organizational environment, or can help with monitoring, then let us know in the marketing channel and please tag @lmurillom
  • If you have networks which you think would be useful to promote Learn WordPress for launch and during the three to six month campaign we are working on, or if you can help with video and social graphics work, please let @meher and @webcommsat know
  • If you can help with the ongoing editing work for the scheduled promotions, please let @webcommsat, @nalininonstopnewsuk and @lmurillom know
  • If you can help subtitling videos, please contact @meher and @lmurillom

Thank you to @webcommsat, @lmurillom, @courane01, @azhiyadev, @evarlese, @camikaos, @meher, @hlashbrooke, @harishanker, @marybaum, @melchoyce and @angelasjin for putting in considerable amount of time for the interviews, content, video, graphics and more for Learn WordPress.

Thank you to @onealtr and @geheren for following on tasks with the training team at each meeting, and to the training team members who have been contributing.

Thank you to @meher for organizing the quiz for the Learn WordPress Contributor party, everyone who attended and huge thanks to @nalininonstopnewsuk for organizing and helping with the accessibility support.

5.6 Release and Core-Related Updates

Task Updates from contributing group member: @meher

➤ How can I help?

To promote the release, please share social media posts with the hashtag #WPRelease across LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. 

LinkedIn Updates

Update from co-ordinating team members: @lmurillom

The marketing team had a busy week of work and planning. Lots of happenings are announcements. Please do follow, share, and like our updates on LinkedIn. It’s quick and helps expand our reach.

➤ How can I help? 

New time for Global Marketing meetings

We are aware many of our members are unable to join us until 15:00 UTC and we have been holding off on some of our collaborations in recent weeks with the change in daylight saving time to accommodate this.

Around 62% of the people have voted for 15:00 UTC, but the remainder prefer 14:00 UTC.

Please complete this scheduling form to help us work out if we need to change the Global #marketing meeting time from January.

We will announce the new timings in January 2020.

New Year’s Resolutions for 2021

Update from co-ordinating team members: @mikerbg

  • There were some initial comments, and now @mikerbg is working on a new draft broken out with a different resolution for each month
  • Next week there will be a chance to work reviewing and editing the document, in addition to the usual async contribution opportunities

➤ How can I help? 

  • During the marketing meetings and channel, check out for any updates or tasks about creating New Year’s Resolutions relating to WordPress, and collaborate on the shared document

Collaboration

Learn WordPress Social Media

Task: Working on Learn WordPress social media and marcomms and additional support materials for launch. 

Led by:  @webcommsat

Attendees and work during the week: @yvettesonneveld, @megphillips91, @meher, @nalininonstopnewsuk, @lmurillom, @oglekler, @azhiyadev, @harishanker

Collaboration Slack Thread

During the collaboration, there was done on subtitling, reviewing and fact checking draft posts and writing lesson plans and workshop posts linked to the current offer.

5.6 Post-release MarComms 

Task: Working on WordPress 5.6 social media and marcomms. 

Attendees and post meeting async: @webcommsat, @OGlekler, @meher, @maedahbatool, @megphillips91, @afshanadiya, @michelleames

Collaboration Slack Thread

  • During the collaboration, work continued processing the latest queries relating to Q&As and GitHub work
  • Social media post drafting work continued and formatting work on the eight Q&A sections already on GitHub. If you are a developer familiar with the items in the release and can help finalize items, please contact @meher

Thank you everyone who has joined, attended, updated the meeting, or contributed asynchronously in the last few days.

Forthcoming Diary Dates

If you need accessibility or language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel. We are keen to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.

Thursday 24 December 2020 – As it is Christmas eve and most people are out on Holiday, we are not having a Virtual Coffee Break, Marketing. See you in January 2021

We are planning themed Coffee Break sessions for 2021!

Next Marketing Meeting

Wednesday 23 December 2020, 14:00 UTC, in the Marketing Channel on Make WordPress Slack.

Wednesday 30 December 2020, there will be no Global Marketing meeting, see you in 2021.

Thank you everyone who has joined, attended, and updated the meeting, or contributed asynchronously in the last few days. 

➤ How to get started?

If you were in the Marketing Team meeting and would like some extra help to get started to contribute to the project, contact @maedahbatool to get information about the next New Contributors Onboarding meeting.

#learn-wordpress

Agenda: Global Marketing Team 23 December 2020

What are we working on?

The team is continuing to support Learn WordPress, Polyglots survey findings, and promoting the latest WordPress release.

We have lots of ways for contributors to get involved. Come to the weekly global meetings at 14:00 UTC on Slack (more details below) or contribute async in the 48 hours after the meeting if this time does not work for your timezone and other commitments.

Contributor support sessions for early 2021 – open to those returning to the team and wanting a refresher and to those who have pledged to contribute under Five for the Future.

Follow and share our weekly highlight of WordPress Meetup events and news on Marketing team LinkedIn Page. Keep up with the #WPDiversity and #LearnWP announcements on the WordCamp Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Agenda

Thanks to @meher and @lmurillom for working on the agenda for this week with input from the team. Let us know if you have an item for next week.

Global Marketing Meeting on Wednesday 23 December 2020 at 14:00 UTC in the #Marketing channel on Slack.

  1. Welcome
  2. Attendance Thread
  3. Review last week’s meeting notes and actions/task updates
  4. Updates and celebrating significant achievements and updates
  5. End of weekly meeting
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Where I can find other information?

Updates on other tasks and previous meeting notes are in our Google doc. The link is shared in the meeting and is pinned in our Slack channel. Summaries are being posted on the blog, access has recently been re-established to enable this.

Marketing Team homepage

WordPress Quarter 3 2020 Update

Forthcoming diary dates

If you need accessibility or language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel. We are keen to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.

Wednesday, 23 December 2020, 17:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC – Dev Chat in #Core Slack channel

Wednesday 23 December, 14:00 UTC – Global Marketing Team meeting in #Marketing Slack channel led by @meher and @nalininonstopnewsuk

Thursday 24 December 2020 As it is Christmas eve and most people are out on Holiday, we are not having a Virtual Coffee Break, Marketing. See you in January 2021.

Wednesday 30 December, 14:00 UTC – there will be no Global Marketing Team meeting

Wednesday, 30 December 2020, 17:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC – Dev Chat in #Core Slack channel

Thursday 31 December 2020 – As it is New Year eve, we are not having a Virtual Coffee Break, Marketing. See you in January 2021

Wednesday, 6 January 2021, 17:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC – Dev Chat in #Core Slack channel

#marketing, #marketing-agenda

Notes: Global Marketing meeting 9 December 2020

Introduction

These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and to assist with an asynchronous contribution to the Global Marketing Team. For those unable to attend a meeting due to timezone issues, please do join the discussion threads and tasks on Trello after the meeting and send your updates. 

Attendees Slack Thread (please add your name in the thread and in the Google doc in suggestion mode if you participated asynchronously and missed your name off the thread)

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Meeting Notes

A big thanks to @maedahbatool and @lmurillom for contributing to drafting last week’s meeting notes. Note: Please review and add comments in suggestion mode – link in the Slack. These notes will be updated as appropriate.

Rota:

16 Dec: @oglekler

➤ How can I help?

You can volunteer to contribute to notes for future meetings. Please note that the initial draft is needed by Friday 17.00 UTC each week to help with actions and follow-ups that might be needed.

Welcoming new contributors

New Attendees Welcome Thread

Marketing Contributor introductory sessions in 2021 – booking details

Get involved – starter tasks for new and returning contributors, and those who have pledged to support the team and need assistance to get started

Tasks, Working Groups, and Team Celebration

Celebrations Thread

Here’s everything that is worth celebrating and task updates during the last week:

  • WordPress 5.6 Release
  • December 2020 Meetup Newsletter
  • Community Announcements via LinkedIn
  • Learn WordPress platform launch
  • New time for Global Marketing Meeting

Task Updates 

5.6 Release and Core-Related Updates

Task Updates from contributing group member: @webcommsat

  • WordPress 5.6 was released on 8 December 2020. Thank you to the people who have been involved. 
  • There is strong input from the marketing team in the WordPress 5.6 About page, with a number of our team being chosen for notable contributions. Let’s celebrate their contributions as developers and ambassadors for the marketing team.
  • We are now working on all the follow up materials such as Questions and Answers, social media packs, slides, and images to help meetup groups with WordPress 5.6 outreach.
  • Thanks to @webcommsat and @meher for working on the release social media posts.
  • Please share the 5.6 Release post announcement on the Make WordPress marketing team LinkedIn page.  

➤ How can I help?

To promote the release, please share social media posts with the hashtag #WPRelease across LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. 

December 2020 Meetup Newsletter

Update from coordinating team member: @webcommsat

  • For December’s Month in WordPress, there are updates on Learn WordPress, online WordPress meetups and the 5.6 Release, all of which the marketing team has been contributing to via cross-team collaboration. You can read all the details in the post
  • From the meeting, thanks were expressed to @webcommsat, @andreamiddleton and @harishanker for working to meet the revised deadline for this newsletter after the release. Marketing team members were asked to highlight the opportunity to submit questions for the State of the Word, which is featured in the newsletter
  • As the cycle continues we will be starting work on the contributions to Month in WordPress for January 2021

LinkedIn Updates

Update from co-ordinating team members: @lmurillom

The marketing team had a busy week of work and planning. Lots of happenings are announcements. Please do follow, share, and like our updates on LinkedIn. It’s quick and really helps expand our reach. 

➤ How can I help? 

PRIORITY: Contribute by sharing the social media posts with the hashtag #WPRelease.  

Please share announcements like the ones above, which you can find on the Make WordPress Marketing Team LinkedIn page.

Learn WordPress Platform  

There is work being done for the upcoming Learn WordPress platform launch, and we need assistance with graphics work, formatting the social pack, and more.  

➤ How can I help? 

If you have networks which you think would be useful to promote Learn WordPress for launch and during the three to six month campaign we are working on, or if you can help with video and social graphics work, please let @meher and @webcommsat know.

Global Marketing Meeting Time

Please complete this scheduling form to help us work out if we need to change the Global #marketing meeting time from January.

We are aware many of our members are unable to join us until 15:00 UTC and we have been holding off on some of our collaborations in recent weeks with the change in daylight saving time to accommodate this. 

Collaboration

New Year’s Resolutions for 2021

Task: Creating New Year’s online Resolutions for WordPress. This is something fun we can distribute through social media to bring attention to our goals and priorities for next year. 

Led by: @mikerbg 

Collaboration Slack Thread

  • Collaborations during the meeting and async included Slack discussions, ideas into a Google document and a video conferencing call
  • @mikerbg will pull together the suggestions and brainstorming work into a first draft, which will be reviewed next week during a collaboration session

5.6 Post-release MarComms & Learn WordPress

Task: Working on WordPress 5.6 social media and marcomms additional support materials and Learn WordPress launch marketing planning

Led by: @webcommsat

Collaboration Slack Thread

  • During the collaboration, work was done on the Google docs and processing the latest queries relating to Q&As and GitHub work
  • Social media post drafting work continued, follow-ups for the Accessibility Q&A, and formatting work on the eight Q&A sections already on GitHub. If you are a developer familiar with the items in the release and can help finalize items, please contact @meher
  • Planning video and social materials, updating messages with latest changes, and discussing connection with the release cycle

Thank you everyone who has joined, attended, updated the meeting, or contributed asynchronously in the last few days. 

Forthcoming Diary Dates

If you need accessibility or language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel. We are keen to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.

Wednesday 16 December 2020, 14:00 UTC – Global Marketing Team meeting in the #Marketing Slack channel – Latest Promotions Only.

NOTE: Wednesday 16 December 2020, 15:00 UTC – CANCELLED: Staying Connected Poetry Event and Results from our Fun Challenge. This has had to be postponed to support members of our team who are unwell currently.

Wednesday 16 December 2020, 17:00 UTC & 20:00 UTC – Dev Chat meetings in the #Core Slack channel.

Thursday 17 December 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break, Marketing. If you need live captioning to participate, please let @meher know and we will use a live captioning tool.

➤ How to get started?

If you were in the Marketing Team meeting and would like some extra help to get started to contribute to the project, contact @maedahbatool to get information about the next New Contributors Onboarding meeting.