Plan for Marketing Tune-Up this Coming Friday May 15th

Hi All:

This coming Friday, May 15th, we will be working on two things:

1) Gathering information about events Plone should be represented at  
so that we have a plan in place, budget set aside for target events,  
and can help support Plonistas going to those events.

The preliminary event list we have is at:
http://etherpad.com/eMhbqewyQw

It is broken down by region. EUROPEANS: please add on to your list!

GOAL FOR MAY 15TH PLONE TUNE-UP:
For each event, gather:
  - name, location, dates
  - url
  - target audience
  - expected number of exhibitors and their names
  - expected number of attendees
  - admission ticket price
  - information on booth rental cost and other associated expenses for  
exhibitors
  - names of Plonistas planning on attending the event
  - reason why Plone should be represented

Again, the list is at:
http://etherpad.com/eMhbqewyQw

2) Review the latest update of the Plone logo usage guidelines (to be  

Plone logo on new Plone.org pages?!

Hi folks,

can someone tell me why there is no (plone) logo on the header of the  
new Plone.org pages? Is there a reason for this?
It's my main concern right now about new plone.org "usability" and  
"branding".

thanks,
Francesco.

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Want to improve Plone marketing?

Dear Plone enthusiasts,

The newly reformed Plone Marketing committee is seeking highly
motivated members of the community who want to serve on the committee.
If you are interested, please contact me with
a brief summary of why you would like to serve on the committee and
your ideas for improving the marketing and promotion of Plone.

In an effort to build some momentum around Plone marketing efforts,
the Plone foundation board has reinstated the Plone marketing
committee. I will be chairing the committee and Jon Stahl and Geir
Bœkholt will also be serving as members.

The first task of the newly formed committee is to prepare a roadmap
of marketing efforts to tackle in 2008, to be discussed and refined at
the upcoming Plone Strategic Planning Summit starting on friday at the
Googleplex. [1]

Also, while we're on the subject of marketing, please send your
marketing materials to marketing@... They will be used to
conduct a brand audit at the upcoming summit and eventually produce a
package of reusable marketing materials about Plone. [2]

There is also a marketing committee area on plone.org [3] with
information on mailing lists and a wiki on openplans.org [4] which we
can use for organizing these marketing efforts.

Looking forward to your responses and ideas for marketing Plone in 2008!

thanks,

[Community-marketing] consolidation of Plone marketing lists

In an effort to reduce confusion about the various Plone marketing
lists, we are consolidating them to just two:

marketing-committee@...  - the official list for the
marketing committee of the Plone foundation. Only members of the
marketing committee should subscribe.

evangelism@...  - the general list for all issues related
to marketing, promotion and evangelism of Plone. Anyone is welcome to
join this list.

These two lists will be terminated on February 29, 2008:
foundation-marketing@...
community-marketing@...

If you are on these lists, and would like to continue to participate
in the Plone marketing efforts, please subscribe (if you haven't
already) to the evangelism@... list. This is where all
discussion about Plone marketing will take place from now on.

Please note that we will not be automatically moving your email
address over to the evangelism list, so if you want to stay
up-to-date, you will have to take this action.

thanks,
Nate

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[Community-marketing] great outreach opportunity: toronto - october 25-26

[Community-marketing] portal competition at aiim

I'm not sure if Plone will be represented in the competition at AIIM:
http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/861-Attention-portal-suppliers:-Join-the-Enterprise-Portal-Smackdown

if not, might be worth looking into.   It's on April 17th in Boston.

Melody Winkle
University of Washington

[Community-marketing] FYI: Plone on Apple OS X Download site

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Today is the last day to vote for the Packt Publishing award for best 
CMS, so if you haven't voted for Plone yet, click on the following link 
and vote for Plone as the best CMS. You also have a chance to win a iPod 
Nano!

http://www.packtpub.com/article/final_five_plone

It takes 2 seconds and will help Plone get more recognition, not to 
mention $5,000.

thanks!
Nate

p.s. sorry for the cross-posting but i wanted to reach as many people as 
possible in the remaining hours of voting.

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[Community-marketing] RE: [ZPUGDC] Fwd: [cmpros] Boston Members - Report on plone user group and call for interest in Boston CM/ECM meetup

I would agree - we lately reached out to the Laszlo community by
co-sponsoring a Sprint and it generated some interest from Laszlo folks to
learn about Plone.  But more needs to occur, as it was still a Plone-centric
Sprint (although we actually got into a considerable amount of Laszlo
coding).

Paul

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From: zpugdc-owner@... on behalf of Nate Aune
Sent: Fri 10/20/2006 2:15 PM
To: usergroups@...; zpugdc@...;
sfbay@...; community-marketing@...;
plone_seattle@...; cbc@...;
Jonah Bossewitch; Seth Gottlieb
Subject: [ZPUGDC] Fwd: [cmpros] Boston Members - Report on plone user group
and call for interest in Boston CM/ECM meetup

I thought other Plone user groups might be interested in this recent
development happening in Boston... (see Russ' email below to the CM Pros
mailing list)

I think the Plone community could in general be better about reaching out to
other user groups and inviting them to come and learn about Plone. 

Russ suggested inviting the MySQL user group to a Plone meeting and make the
topic, "How to use get Plone to talk to MySQL". We had a guy from the Ruby
user group show up last night, and there are often folks from the Python
user group who come to learn about Plone. 

Thoughts, other ideas? We can continue this discussion at the Plone
Conference - i think there is even a BoF about Plone user groups.

Nate

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From: rdanner617@... <mailto:rdanner617@...>
<rdanner617@...
<mailto:rdanner617@...> >
Date: Oct 20, 2006 1:05 AM
Subject: [cmpros] Boston Members - Report on plone user group and call for
interest in Boston CM/ECM meetup 
To: cmpros@...
<mailto:cmpros@...> 

ATTN Boston, MA Members:

This Month's Boston Plone User Group hosted at the Christian Science Monitor
was very interesting.  We don't use plone but it is great to a be a part a
group of such talented individuals (Several members of CMPros) engaged in
web content managment and open source. 

To night we looked at a number of new functionalities Developed by Nate Aune
and he collegues for managing multi media within the plone system.

We also looked at plone functionality called smart folders.  Smart folders
are an awesome capability of plone which allows dynamic / adaptive
organizations to be genereated on the fly.  Seth Gottlieb (
http://contenthere.blogspot.com/ <http://contenthere.blogspot.com/> ) posted
a blog on an article "There is no Folder"  by Jonah Bossewitch
http://contenthere.blogspot.com/2006/05/there-is-no-folder.html
<http://contenthere.blogspot.com/2006/05/there-is-no-folder.html> . Which
highlights the power in this kind of functionality. If you haven't had a
chance to check it out, do so its good stuff.

One of the things we were discussing after the meeting was the thought of
finding individuals in the Boston area to participate in a Content
Management User Group.  My organization (The CS Monitor) uses alfresco, the
great gang we hosted tonight uses Plone,  Seth does it all :)  Although we
are all using different products we have many of the same issues.  I'd be
interested to know who in the boston area would be interested in forming a
general CM/ECM user group.  Since many of us meet for other usergroups it
may not make sense to meet each month, maybe ee could meet maybe once a
quarter. 

If you are in boston, or close to boston, and are interested send me an
email.  I think I can find some wiki space to coordinate something if there
is interest.

Best Regards,

Russ Danner
CS Monitor 
rdanner617@...
<mailto:rdanner617@...> 
617-834-2781

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[Community-marketing] Fwd: [cmpros] Boston Members - Report on plone user group and call for interest in Boston CM/ECM meetup