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Link to the start of the meeting on Marketing Slack to help with async contributions.
1. Welcome, Introduction
These summary notes focus on key items and actions from the meeting and 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.
- The meeting discussions on the Marketing team on Slack can be found at this Slack thread
- Meeting Agenda
- Meeting facilitated by Team Reps: @lmurillom @EidolonNight @nalininonstopnewsuk
- Meeting notes: @ugyensupport
- Reviewed: @lmurillom, @nalininonstopnewsuk
- For those new to the team, the New Contributor Orientation section of the Handbook can be a good place to start.
2. Getting to know the team and help to take part
- Meeting attendees: participants (Slack Thread for those who signed-in)
- Social question of the week from @nalininonstopnewsuk: “What is your favorite board-based game and what was the most useful thing you have learnt from playing it?” See participant responses via this Slack thread (link).
3. Notes and volunteer opportunities
- Thank you to @bjmcsherry for drafting 13 April 2022 notes and @lmurillom and @nalininonstopnewsuk for reviewing it.
Notetakers for coming weeks – you can join our group of contributors taking part in producing notes by volunteering when you see a call for note-takers during our meetings or adding your name to the weekly GitHub card.
- 20 April 2022 – @ugyensupport
- 27 March 2022 – @ugyensupport
- 4 May 2022 – @bjmcsherry
We are always looking for contributors to open the virtual coffee shop for the bi-weekly coffee break. Check out the GitHub card and add your name to the list!
4. Project Updates
4a) Newsletters, Campaigns and Events
Updates via @lmurillom
- The Polyglots Newsletter for March 2022 – thanks to all who contributed. Please read, share and sign up for their updates.
- @nao has shared a draft of the April Polyglots Newsletter and a separate P2 post to go along with it, for review and feedback. [Post meeting: this has now been published]
- #GrowYourStory campaign: @jpantani has added in a status update in the GitHub card for Grow Your Story. Read about the campaign and share your WordPress experience in this blog post.
- Reminder that there is an ongoing call for topic ideas for WP Briefing podcast. Add your ideas to the discussion on GitHub or contact @santanainniss on Slack
- @EidolonNight will be doing a documentation sprint this Friday. If you would like to contribute, additional details are in this GitHub issue.
4b) Social media status
Updates via @eidolonnight and @bjmcsherry
- We continue to ask that new contributors help with: WordPress.org Social Media Amplification.
- Thanks to @bjmcsherry for updating Stats – Performance: Our audience across all networks grew by 693 followers last week. That brings our total audience to 2,037,458 followers.
We saw excellent engagement overall with many of our campaigns including the ‘WordPress 6.0 Beta 1′ announcement, and ‘Openverse’ posts in some of our best examples throughout the week.- Impressions: 1,565,550
- Engagements: 7,145
- Link clicks: 2,206
- Messages received: 27
4c) GitHub Updates and Links
Updates via @nalininonstopnewsuk
- The central GitHub repository and task board is at this link: Marketing Tasks GitHub board
- If any of our new or existing contributors have specific help requests which are not currently logged on the spreadsheet, please do add them and your GitHub ID so someone can try and help you.
- Please note, if a Newsletter, Notes etc are published, please add the link to the GitHub card as a status update, and who has been involved. Then the card can be closed by the Team Reps.
- You can add suggestions/ input into next week’s meeting and activity on its GitHub card
4d) Contributor events updates
Updates via @nalininonstopnewsuk: nothing new received in.
- Request to @jpantani for any update on WordCamp Europe contributor day and the marketing table
5) Diary dates
Updates via @lmurillom
- Coffee break on Thursday 7 April 2022 at 18:30/ 6.30pm UTC will be facilitated by @santanainniss. This bi-weekly social hour is held by the Make Marketing team for all WordPress Marketing contributors, and occasional guests. Stop by and meet some of the friendly faces marketing WordPress.
- Check out the Google Calendar with meetings, collaborations, and social activities and the Forthcoming Diary Dates post for reminders.
6) Open Floor
- @ugyensupport started working on Make WordPress Slack onboarding video – Bhutanese
Next Marketing Meeting: Wednesday 27 April 2022, 15:00 UTC – Global Marketing Team meeting in the #marketing channel on Slack. Add items or async updates to the GitHub card for next week.