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

Hello Marc, Charles and everyone,

I do believe that Wordpress can be installed on a sub-domain, so the option
should be explored if this platform is the one the main bloggers are
comfortable with. Wordpress is opensource :)

Immanuel

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> wrote:

> 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/<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://blog.documentfoundation.org/>
> > > http://libomarketing.**wordpress.com/<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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