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

Objectives

• Increase Tiki visibility
• Increase number of Tiki installs
• Attract talent & energy to Tiki (Developers, designers, etc.)

Release responsibilities

Members

Tasks (do and cross out)

Ongoing responsibilities

Maintain sites

• https://tiki.org (the "info" perspective), in collaboration with Consulting Ecosystem Team and Branding Team
  • Approve submissions

Newsletter/tiki.org blog/social media

• monthly newsletter (Jan to draft for approval of rest of team - draft will be a wiki page, 2nd week of the month, will be sent out using Constant Contact newsletter software as (1) it has precautions to prevent our domain to be flagged as being a spammer, (2) it has tracking and stats features missing in Tiki Newsletter feature.)
• blogging (Jan to blog twice a month, how-tos/event reviews/new features and releases, will draft content or work with rest of team to generate content)
• social media (Jan to help admin Facebook/LinkedIn, and participate in Twitter)
  • refer to blog, live updates, call to action on a regular basis
  • approving new users (Facebook/LinkedIn) in the group member applications

Monitoring

• Add new things (and occasionally cleanup) to Listings, Reviews, Nice Sites and places to Vote for Tiki.
• Establish requirements for a Dashboard (Dogfood)
• Monitor other mailing lists for mentions about TikiWiki
• Monitor "Need advice" forum on Wikimatrix
• Monitor the brand (coordinating with the Branding Team
• http://info.tiki.org/tiki-list_banners.php
• Tiki.org site directory , along with Community Building Team
  • Approve site at tiki-directory_validate_sites.php Dogfood feature request: watch and search
  • Check links. Dogfood feature request: Link checker
• Check tiki-referer_stats.php for potential new community members, along with Community Building Team
• Monitor Tiki mailing lists for opportunities, clean up spam & bounces, welcome new subscribers, etc.

Tiki Tweets

N/A

• TikiWiki: Announcing the Tiki Web Host Affiliate Program http://t.co/ITndUY7xfo #tikiwiki
• TikiWiki: RT @wikisym: WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 Registration Open!: Registration for WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 is open now, please registe... http://t.co/…
• TikiWiki: Show your support - Nominate Tiki for Critics Choice CMS Awards http://t.co/1XvxhVx5oa #tikiwiki
• TikiWiki: RT @cmscritic: Nominations are now Open for the Critics Choice #CMS Awards - http://t.co/Rocpjflc2q
• TikiWiki: RT @cmscritic: Who do you think should win in this years upcoming #CMS awards? http://t.co/kisnZDeepq

Some RSS feeds to monitor:

N/A Sponsored: 64% off Code Black Drone with HD Camera Sponsored: The 3 Week Diet Sponsored: Furniture You Can Afford Sponsored: Meet TulaCo info.tiki.org info.tiki.org info.tiki.org info.tiki.org info.tiki.org info.tiki.org

N/A # MS office & office #365 888-352-9606## Support number ... 1*877@*778@*8969 Escan Tech Support Number Tiki 14.2 has been released Technical Helpline Number 1()877()778{}8969 Brother USa 1.8.7.7.7.7.8.8.9.6.9 ((( Buffalo Router Tech Support phone Number @ !!!)) 1.8.7.7*7.7.8*8.9.6.9 Buffalo Router Tech Support phone number Help & Support Microsoft office 888-352-9606, office 365 problems..... Linksys Router Support Number 18553068350 18553068350 Netgear Router Support Number Printer Customer Care Dell ((((((1-877-778-8969))))) Call Any Time

Issue news releases

CMS resources

• Add additional outlets to Press Releases newsletter.
• Edit, review, update the pending news releases.

See Upcoming News for pending news releases.

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

Automatic

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

• CMS Critic
  http://www.cmscritic.com/submit-news/
• http://cmswire.com/
  pr at cmswire.com
• http://cmswatch.com/Trends/248-Does-a-sticky-Wiki-make-a-CMS?
  info at cmswatch.com
• http://www.contentmanagementnews.com/
  articlesubmissions at ientry.com
• http://www.cmsmatrix.org
  info at cmsmatrix.org
• http://www.econtentmag.com/ (InformationToday.com)
  michelle.manafy at infotoday.com
• http://www.opensource-news.com/
  info at opensource-news.com
• http://gilbane.com/news/
  info at gilbane.com
• http://www.contentmanagementnews.com/
  articlesubmissions at ientry.com
• http://cms-software-review.toptenreviews.com/index.html (Top Ten Reviews)
  pr at toptenreviews.com
• http://www.hartmangids.nl/
  info at hartman-communicatie.nl
• http://www.h-online.com/ (The H)
  editors at h-online.com

Manual

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

• CMS Match
• CMS Report
  http://cmsreport.com/node/add/pr
• CMS Design Resource
  http://www.cmsdesignresource.com/contact-us/
• http://ricshreves.net/articles/top-20-open-source-content-management-systems
• PacktPub
  http://www.packtpub.com/contact
• http://mytestbox.com/wiki-software-reviews/tikiwiki-wiki-cms-groupware-system/
• http://content-wire.com/aggregator
• http://gilbanesf.com/
• http://guidecms.com/
• http://php.resourceindex.com/
  http://php.resourceindex.com/contact/modify/
• http://www.phpground.com/content-management/span-class-highlight-tiki-span-cms-groupware-l156.html
• http://digg.com
• http://www.reddit.com/submit
• http://www.opensourcexperts.com/PressRelease/list.html
• CMS Magazine
  http://cms.phpmagazine.net/contact.html
• http://www.cms-informer.com
• CMS Matrix
  http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix/news]
• entirelyopensource.com
  http://www.entirelyopensource.com/submit
• CMS Info
  http://www.cmsinfo.org/contact.html
• PRLog
  http://www.prlog.org/pub/submit-new.html
• WebmasterFormat
  http://webmasterformat.com/contact

Other Communication Tasks

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

• http://opensourcecms.com
  http://php.opensourcecms.com/scripts/details.php?scriptid=63&name=TikiWiki%20CMS/Groupware
  Requires developer login. Contact Rick or Marc for details.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikiwiki
  ''also update any other pages mentioning TW and specific version number: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/TikiWiki
• http://freshmeat.net/projects/tiki
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki
• https://www.reddit.com/r/TikiWiki/

Awards

Outreach

• Collaborate/Participate/Communicate with the larger Open Source community
• Join various organizations
  • like The Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN), Wiki Ohana, etc
• Apply for grants like Google Summer of Code, Google Highly Open Participation Contest, etc
• Participate to Open Source events like FISL
• Apply for Tiki speakers in all major events such as Enterprise 2.0 2009 December 19th, 2008
• Have our community members be interviewed like at http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/
• Presence on general CMS groups like All the users of CMS and Open Source CMS
• Be present on the various Social Networks

Promote Tiki events

• http://www.cmswire.com/events/
• http://www.facebook.com/events.php?oid=6607687318
• http://www.wikimatrix.org/calendar.php
• Need Tiki calendar of events
  Tiki calendar live on info.tw.o

Update info

• Wikipedia pages related to CMS, Wiki .... and Tiki.
• CMSMatrix page for Tiki
• WikiMatrix page for Tiki
• ForumMatrix page for Tiki
• Youtube: Make a Tiki or TikiWiki profile or Channel on http://www.youtube.com/ and add all relevant videos to a playlist. Current search for TikiWiki gives all kinds of non-relevant content. (Régis 2012-10-10)

With packaging team

• Make sure hosts are listing Tiki in their supported apps: MediaTemple, Bluehost, Site5etc
• Make sure installers like Fantastico are using latest stable version. Please see: 1-click installers
• Periodically check all Demo sites to make sure they are working and up to the latest version.

Big picture ideas

• Develop a Viral Tiki strategy

More ideas (from Rick)

• We need more Twitter streams. I would like to re-suggest that we convert the RSS feeds from each forum into Tweets for its own account (tikiwiki_features, tikiwiki_i18n, tikiwiki_svn, etc.). The constant stream of tweets into the Twitterverse will help make Tiki appear more "alive."
  Current "official" TW Tweet streams include:
  • http://twitter.com/tikiwiki — Official news
  • http://twitter.com/tiki_code — SVN Commits (automated)
  • http://twitter.com/tiki_search — Retweets any item with tikiwiki keyword or tag (automated)
  • http://twitter.com/tiki_themes
  • http://twitter.com/tikifest
• Update the two.o registration tracker to include links to all the TW-related signups (Ohloh.net, FB, etc.).
• We should mirror the tw.o forms with the SourceForge mailing lists (this will help to raise the SF activity rating, too). We could mirror them one way (push all forum posts -> SF mailing list), which is very easy, and simply update the footer of each SF message to include a note that responses should be posted to tw.o forums.
• Mirror the dev mailing list (and the others, too, but they're very low traffic) to the tw.o forum. There's LOTS of good information there that end-users could benefit from. We could make the forum read-only, with no impact to the existing dev list.

Main sites to manage

• CleanupTwoRevamp
• http://profiles.tiki.org/tikiwiki_org_sites_profile
• Keep an eye on CatOrphans and Orphan pages

Related:

• http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-marketing and Drupal Marketing resources
• http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pr/

Investigate

• Krugle
• http://www.koders.com/?s=tikiwiki&la=*&li=*
• http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=TikiWiki
• http://books.google.com/books?q=TikiWiki

See also: Static Code Analysis

Related links

• http://producingoss.com/en/communications.html
• http://producingoss.com/en/marketing.html
• http://producingoss.com/en/publicity.html
• http://www.ageofpeers.com/

Alias

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