Hey all, So, following on from the previous thread, I think it would be useful to try and figure out what the marketing team is currently doing well, what we're doing less well, and what we can do in the immediate future (i.e. the next month) to improve. I realised this was long and rambly, here's a brief conclusion: So, in summary: digg more, try and focus our efforts together a bit more if possible (i.e. FWN CMS or something similar), and pick up the work of picking out features and builiding press for them earlier in the release cycles. What do peole think? What ever you think, I think we should "just do it" and become pragmatists! Here are some of my immediate thoughts in longer form: What we're doing well: - keeping a tab on all of Fedora's coverage in places - FWN I would count as marketing and I think do a great job - the interviews for F8 I think were good - the release summaries are also super What we're doing less well: - Getting stories about Fedora out to the press as a whole (I know there's been some threads about this, particularly with regard to working with Red Hat to get more press releases done) - "viral" marketing: would be cool to see Fedora turning up in more people's blogs and more on places like Digg and Slashdot - Not enough talk to with developers How we can improve immediately over the coming months: - There's talk of setting up some kind of CMS for FWN that will allow comments, regular blog posts etc? I think this would be awesome, as although the weekly summaries as they are rock, one place where we can post interviews, news as it emerges, weekly summaries would generate a lot more buzz than it being spread out all over - I think. - The above is useless if we don't do more to talk with developers and find out what we should be talking about! Maybe if we accept that they might not want to blog etc and just monitor feature pages, chat/e-mail developers regularly when the feature pages show something worthwhile talking about! - Places like Digg and Slashdot are community based, they have the idea that you'll want to digg stories similar to your friends - i.e. other Fedora users. We should try and make better use of this and put out more shouts and submit more Fedora related stories :D All the stuff that we get sent to the marketing-list about Fedora in the news, we should be digging these stories as well (heh, at least the positive ones!) -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
