Fw: increasing the reach of fedora-marketing
ditto
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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:30:35 -0400
From: Leigh Cantrell Day <lday(a)redhat.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com>
Cc: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base
<fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>, sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: increasing the reach of fedora-marketing
Rik van Riel wrote:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:24:01 +0530
Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
>> While we have Leigh's attention, maybe we can start with the
>> excellent interview of Dimitris Glezos on Transifex? It would be a
>> good example of great content which deserves to be promoted heavily.
> Sure. We have a lot of content Red Hat Marketing can use to promote
> the work being done here. The Fedora 8 series of interviews are a
> good start.
I suspect that simply pointing Red Hat's marketing people at
a mountain of content and going "here, you write something
cool" is going to work.
If we want to improve Fedora's outreach, we first need to
figure out what we want and how to do it.
> We should have started earlier on this but better late than never.
> One thing to note is that none of us here are experts in marketing.
> What I would really want is folks from Red Hat Marketing to guide us
> and participate in our efforts so that we have more professional
> eyes looking into this.
That I suspect could be a good use of time by people in
Red Hat's marketing department: teach the fedora-marketing
crowd "how to fish", so future collaboration goes smoother.
"how to fish" for PR/press blogs/industry analyst briefings is
communications(a)redhat.com. Just send us stuff that's coming up, news
to get out, perspectives, etc. & we'll make it happen on a global basis.
leigh
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