Notes: Global Marketing Team meeting, 11 July 2023

Please add any comments on the related Marketing Tasks GitHub issue or in the #marketing channel on the Make WordPress Slack. 

• This meeting was organized on GitHub card #252 
  • Leading the meeting: @robinwpdeveloper
  • Taking notes: @ngreenn
  • Link to meeting start in Slack 
• Attendance:
  • 7 contributors
  • Link to attendance thread in Slack

Team News

• No major updates
• The next coffee break will be on Thursday, 13 July, 2023 at 18:30 UTC.

WordPress Publications

• News: WPBriefing: Episode 59: A Polyglot’s WordPress
• Project: 6.3 Live Product Demo
• People of WordPress: Allison Dye

WordPress.org social media updates

• Social Media stats
  • Per Brett McSherry:
    • Brett is out this week so there are no stats.

GitHub Issues

New Issues

• Develop communications materials for Contributor Mentorship Pilot Program #253

Open Issues

This section highlights issues from the Marketing Team GitHub that had discussion in Slack during the week. This is not all of the open Marketing team issues.

• Marketing Team management
  • Update Marketing Handbooks “Get Involved” pages to improve contribution process for Marketing contributors #169
    • This needs to happen before WCUS
  • Amplification request form #140
    • @sereedmedia will push and pull the request change made that week.
• Cross-team collaboration
  • Promote the #feature-notifications team’s Notification survey #248
    • Needs attention
  • Help Training Team develop a strategic marketing plan for promoting Learn WordPress learning pathways amplify Community cross-team promotion Training #249
    • In progress but work not due until 2024
  • Celebrating Pride Month and WordPress Diversity #240
    • Should be wrapped up since june is over
  • Promote Helping to Documentation team with Mobile Apps docs #219
    • No progress on this yet.
• WordPress Project marketing
  • Revising the Enterprise page on WordPress.org#244 (Discussion)
    • Please see https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/40/views/4?pane=issue&itemId=25781101
  • The Month in WordPress: June 2023 Edition #243
    • Draft will be shared soon
  • WP20 Book: Building Blocks: The Evolution of WordPress 2013-2023 #223
    • Will be closed soon
  • Showcase Guidelines and Content Moderation #221
    • weekly updates are happening in #website-redesign design about … the website redesign. The showcase is top of the list.
  • Get involved or Contribute tab for the About page — structure and the content #217
    • The content for it is almost complete and the contributor tool has been turned into a block.

Closing Soon

• Add ideas to the WP Campaigns Social Content Brainstorm doc #191
• #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks campaign #220 
• People of WordPress: Allison D #234

Recently Closed

• None

Open Floor

• None

Next Steps

• Our next meeting is 18 July, 2023 at 15:00 UTC.
• GitHub card for the next meeting: https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/issues/254

Note: This post is backdated to the correct Notes posting date of July 17, 2023. Was published on September 29, 2023.

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