Communications Team

The Communications Team is responsible primarily for our external message (press releases, newsletters, social media, etc.)


Objectives

Release responsibilities

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  1. Publish news on tiki.org, SourceForge, Freshmeat, etc.
  2. Send tiki.org newsletters to subscribers:
    1. Tiki Releases
    2. Tiki News
  3. Update info on all Listings
  4. Inform Try Tiki sites. (OpenSourceCMS.com, etc)
  5. Promote on all relevant Social networking sites. (Facebook, etc.)
  6. Promote on all Wiki and CMS-related resources (ex.: CMScritic.com)

Members

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Inactive members Cyril Gallant, flor, GuyVigneault, janbambach, Régis Barondeau, WizarDave are invited to reactivate membership at any time.


To join the team or simply to volunteer to help, please contact one of the existing members. Remember though - you can help out in communications even if not officially part of the team - thanks in advance!

Tasks (do and cross out)

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  1. http://info.tiki.org/tiki-list_banners.phpQuestion are out of date and need a clean-up
  2. 2010-09 Marc Laporte Interview CMS Critic
  3. Fix thisQuestion by opening and using a different Kaltura account
  4. Get approval on this oneQuestion or delete it by december 2010 if not getting an OK to either edit more or leave as is and send it to Youtube. Here is the countdown: december 31st, 2010. After which this video clip will be deletedQuestion
  5. Major overhaul to Wikipedia entryQuestion
    See Tiki Wikipedia Entry for work in progress (and to help!).
  6. get listed on http://www.aiimcommunities.org/e20/buyers-guide/product-indexQuestion (the page does not seem to exist anymore on that site)
  7. investigate http://www.cmsmyth.com/Question
  8. Get listed on hotscripts.com
    http://www.hotscripts.com/guidelines/Question

Ongoing responsibilities

Maintain sites

Newsletter/tiki.org blog/social media

Monitoring

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Issue news releases

CMS resources


See Upcoming News for pending news releases.

A little aside: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/06/meetyourfriends/Question - entertaining post about what should be avoided in press releases.

Automatic

These resources are notified of Tiki news via the Press Releases newsletter:

Manual

These resources require manual notification of Tiki news (they use a unique web form instead of email):

Other Communication Tasks

For each release, be sure to update the following items:

Awards

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Outreach

Promote Tiki events

Update info

With packaging team

Big picture ideas


More ideas (from Rick)

Main sites to manage


Related:

Investigate


See also: Static Code Analysis

Related links

Alias

Media Team | Press Team | CommunicationsTeam | CommunicationTeam | Communication Team | video clips

History