Notes: Global Marketing Team meeting, 16 May 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 #224 
  • Leading the meeting:@sereedmedia
  • Taking notes: @sereedmedia 
  • Link to meeting start in Slack 
• Attendance:
  • 14 contributors
  • Link to attendance thread in Slack

Team News

• The #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks campaign continues! Please join in! We are on Day 8.
• Team Rep @Santana.Inniss is still out on leave.  
• @Reyes Martínez  will be leading the Marketing Team Contributor Day table at WCEU
• There will be a Marketing table at WordCamp Sylhet, Bangladesh on 20th May lead by sunitarai and Mumtahina Faguni
• We are discussing the name and revising the plan for the coffee breaks. We are considering calling them collaboration sessions and having them be a place to collaborate on existing marketing team tickets or topics. (Share your thoughts on #137)

WordPress Publications

• Marketing team blog: Day 8: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks
• Developer Blog: What’s new for developers? (May 2023)
• Polyglots Monthly Newsletter: May 2023

WordPress.org social media updates

• Social Media stats
  • Per Brett McSherry: Going to be a bit delayed in getting these performance numbers up this week. I am having issues with Sprout populating Twitter performance numbers which is a large part of our overall community base in social. I will try to get these numbers async as soon as I can get the Twitter issue resolved.

GitHub Issues

New Issues

• Prepare and post Marketing Team update for Updates channel #228
  • Team reps need to begin doing this. Has not been done since 2020.

Open Issues

• Marketing Team management
  • Adds marketing-specific issue templates #213 AND Amplification request form #140
    • @jpantani has requested we create some materials around using Pull Requests for marketing text, and we thought it would be a good idea to have that be the next collaboration session topic. 
• WordPress Project marketing
  • Get involved or Contribute tab for the About page — structure and the content #217
    • look at the current text and how it looks in the current PR. Feedback is welcome in the Google Doc draft.
    • no deadline yet, but we need to move to get ready for 6.3. 

Closing Soon

• None

Open Floor

• None

Next Steps

Our next meeting is 23 May, 2023 at 15:00 UTC.

• GitHub card for the next meeting: https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/issues/230

Note: This post is backdated to the correct Notes posting date of May 22, 2023. Was actually posted on July 2, 2023. – Sé

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