[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Blogging of items on the Marketing List

Le 2013-01-14 11:33, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit :
> Le lundi 14 janvier 2013 à 11:14 -0500, Marc Paré a écrit :
> > Le 2013-01-14 10:26, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit :
> > > Hello Marc,
> > >
> > > Le lundi 14 janvier 2013 à 10:09 -0500, Marc Paré a écrit :
> > > > http://libomarketing.wordpress.com/
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks... BTW this blog is a mess. No post is chronologically ordered.
> > > Immanuel may have a point with his suggestion. Mind if I ask what's
> > > possible to do on our website directly ?
> > >
> > > Best,
> >
> > Some of our blogs are on Wordpress. I believe that the infrastructure
> > move will also bring a consolidation of blogsites into one server and
> > under the TDF control. But for now, even some of the nl blogs are set up
> > on Wordpress.
> >
> > We follow all the same format:
> >
> > http://blog.documentfoundation.org/
> > http://libomarketing.wordpress.com/
> > http://libodocs.wordpress.com/
> >
> > We wanted to make the blog sites accessible to the people blogging on
> > them. Yes, Silverstripe, our CMS, is also able to do blogging, but for
> > now this is what we have. I also think that Italo is comfortable using
> > the Wordpress system.
> >
> > If you have any suggestions, feel free to comment. BTW ... the top
> > comment box on our blog is a general statement of our group; all other
> > articles under this are in date format order.
> >
> > Does this explain the "mess"?
>
> Yes, probably :-)
> My observation so far (sorry if sounds like critics, it's not meant to
> be):
> - the "editorial line" is unclear
> - inasmuch as I DON'T like the blog.documentfoundation.org design, we
> should try to come up with something more visually pleasing here.
> - last but not least, libomarketing.wordpress.com has two issues, of
> which you obviously no control over: it shouts "but  they couldn't even
> afford a domain name, like marketing-blog.libreoffice.org and two, it
> insets the infamous "LibO" again, but leaves LibreOffice behind.
>
> So... where do we go from there?
> First of all I'd like to thank you Marc and the authors of this blog for
> keeping it going.
> Given the amount of content there is on the blog I'd like to suggest a
> redesign and a proper URL, or a cloning and reopening under a hosted
> install.
>
> What do you think?
>
> best,
>
> Charles.

No problem, AFAIK, Florian is temporarily funding costs associated to 
domain name, so, I don't think there will be a problem with this. As the 
marketing arm of LibreOffice, we should also ask for the same for the 
docs team, so that we are consistent.

Visually, sure, feel free to suggest a design or ask the design team for 
input, then we can surely make it work. BTW, if the design can be a 
universal one for not only our blog but also of our wiki section, that 
would be great ... it's another item on my to-do wishlist.

Editorial line, sure, if you can work out one that satisfies both Italo 
and yourself for our section.

Quite frankly, I was hoping that we would have made more of the blog, 
but up until recently there was no push to use it effectively, I am all 
for making it more of a marketing tool, the reason for which this 
thread. We can raise awareness of our marketing team and hopefully 
attract marketing contributors.

Sorry, after re-reading my last reply, it sounded a little critical of 
your critique as well -- which it was not meant to be. Such is the 
nature of emailing [*sigh*].

Cheers,

Marc

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