[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Monthly Marketing Team Reminders

Hi Jean,

All fine with these suggestions. The marketing team could commit to the 
upkeep of the pages/links and all else entailed. We could also put this 
up as an item for our "Marketing Easy Hacks page" for newcomers to our 
team.

And yes, all of the videos should be vetted by the team, and, I also 
believe that the videos that we are to accept should also come from 
contributing members who are part of the project.

There are no problems accepting a one-off video to blog/tweet about, but 
its another thing to start cataloguing a series of videos. These are 
definitely not the same. A series of videos is definitely of a more 
serious engagement from the video producer and the quality must match 
our expectations of level of quality -- the videos would also need to be 
uploaded to our TD/LibreOffice YouTube channel.

We could also work out a framework for video tutorials that are based on 
our models. BTW, the "Spoken Tutorials" project from India has a good 
model that we could look at. It is built for community participation 
with a good sense of quality expectations, but Prof Kannan from the 
project would be the best to discuss about this.

Anyway, if we are sending monthly reminders without the ability to back 
it up, then the item should not be on it. If you think it is too 
ambitious we could leave it off OR we could give it another try in order 
to get a good idea of what is out there and if we could get some 
contributors as video producers on board through our collection of links.

Cheers,

Marc

Le 2013-02-09 19:30, Jean Weber a écrit :
> Some people do a lot of videos and how-tos, so I think that a pointer
> to their pages (or to a YouTube search) is better than listing
> individual videos on our wiki, at least in the Docs section. Of
> course, if some volunteer wants to do the upkeep, that's fine, but I
> recall that years ago at OOo we had some good pages of pointers to
> third-party info that were not kept up to date and then gave the wrong
> impression that no new info was out there.
>
> Also, I'm reluctant to link to individual items unless someone on the
> team has personally checked them for accuracy and quality. Of course,
> if the items are produced by active members of the community, that's
> different. I would encourage that, and encourage other creators to
> become members of the community.
>
> --Jean
>
> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Marc Paré<marc@marcpare.com>  wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > This would at least remind people that there is a place where there is help
> > to catalogue these items or a place where once the marketing team gets them
> > they can re-direct the items to the right people.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Marc
> >
> > Le 2013-02-09 13:57, Tom Davies a écrit :
> >
> > > Hi :)
> > > We don't list ALL videos and How-Tos.  We don't even find out about the
> > > vast majority of them.  Even the ones we do find out about are sometimes
> > > lost as we struggle to find a place that would be relevant to put a link to
> > > them.  We do at last have a reasonably good place to put How-Tos and such
> > > but there are other types of non-documentation types of videos, for example
> > > where the Vietnamese Team managed to appear on mainstream tele.
> > >
> > > I think it would be good to build-up a library of good quality How-Tos and
> > > such, as listed in the docs team's wish-list.  Although what part of the
> > > challenge would be listing exactly what needs to be covered.
> > > Regards from
> > > Tom :)
> > >
> > >
> > > > ________________________________
> > > > From: Marc Paré<marc@marcpare.com>
> > > > To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
> > > > Sent: Saturday, 9 February 2013, 17:17
> > > > Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Monthly Marketing Team Reminders
> > > >
> > > > Just a ping on this. Good idea? Bad idea? Comments? Additions? :-)
> > > >
> > > > Marc
> > > >
> > > > Le 2013-02-08 07:17, Marc Paré a écrit :
> > > > > I would like to start posting a "Marketing Team Reminder" on our
> > > > > contributor/user lists. This reminder list would remind our contributors
> > > > > of recurring items that the marketing team is collecting and of any
> > > > > other recurring items. The reminders would be sent at the very beginning
> > > > > of each month.
> > > > >
> > > > > Suggested monthly reminder items:
> > > > >
> > > > > * remind everyone that we collect *current/future events* where the
> > > > > TDF/LibreOffice IS or SHOULD be represented (events such as conferences,
> > > > > dev conferences, educational conferences, bug wrangling events, ...).
> > > > > Please forward events to the marketing list where the event calendar
> > > > > admins will post them to our events calendar -- the events calendar
> > > > > admins are: Florian Effenberger, Immanuel Giulea, Marc Paré. We will
> > > > > also try to take care of LibreOffice representation at these events.
> > > > >
> > > > > NOTE: We collect *events of all languages*. ((We have an Events page on
> > > > > our wiki/website sites:
> > > > > [https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/EventsCalendar] or
> > > > >
> > > > > [http://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/libreoffice-international-events-calendar/].)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > * remind everyone that we collect *awards* given to the TDF or/and
> > > > > LibreOffice. Please forward any news of awards to TDF or/and LibreOffice
> > > > > to the Marketing mailing list where the awards admins will post them to
> > > > > our Awards web page -- the website awards admins are: Marc Paré. We will
> > > > > also take care of posting the news on our official blogs and social
> > > > > media sites
> > > > >
> > > > > NOTE: We collect *awards of all languages*. (We have an Awards webpage
> > > > > in the "About Us" section of our website.)
> > > > >
> > > > > * remind everyone that we collect any *videos* of LibreOffice Tutorials
> > > > > and also videos where mentions of TDF or LibreOffice is mentioned. (We
> > > > > will direct the LibreOffice Tutorials video links to whoever does the
> > > > > cataloguing on the docs team wiki page.
> > > > >
> > > > > NOTE: We collect *videos of all languages* (We have a video LibreOffice
> > > > > Tutorials section on our Documentation wiki site:
> > > > >
> > > > > [https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Other_Documentation_and_Resources#Video_Tutorials]).
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > * remind everyone that there are *official branding guidelines* when
> > > > > marketing LibreOffice and these are found on our wiki page
> > > > > [https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding]. NOTE that on
> > > > > the branding page, there is an explanation as to when/where you may use
> > > > > our "official" or "community" logo.
> > > > >
> > > > > * remind everyone that *joining our contributing teams is a very fun and
> > > > > enriching experience*. That contributing means a "hands on and active"
> > > > > participation. We even have a "discussion" contributor mailing list
> > > > > where serious LibreOffice items are discussed by "discussion"
> > > > > contributors who have views/comments that are taken seriously -- the
> > > > > discussions are focused and kept on-topic and results of these
> > > > > discussions are expected to be productive -- the "Discussion" list is
> > > > > NOT the same as the "Users" list!
> > > > >
> > > > > How do these sound? Do you have any other items that you would think are
> > > > > essential for a monthly reminder?
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > >
> > > > > Marc


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