Daniel Carrera wrote:
Well, I'll take your word for it. So let's move on and get a list of
spokespeople. I have a proposal. I suggest that the PR team of OOo
consist of:
* Marketing Leads.
* MarCons.
* Representatives from NL projects (e.g. NL leads + a PR person?).
The good thing about this is that it keeps marketing tasks cleanly
inside the marketing sphere. I think this list is very good because:
(a) It is simple and clear.
(b) It doesn't tie down the project needlessly (ie. it allows quick
responses to events).
I think that's a fantastic idea.
In addition, we could add a few additional
PR experts with the "approval" of the community council.
I think that going through the CC for this will only paralize the
project. This doesn't mean that "the CC sucks". You know I was in the
CC just recently. But you can't be effective, while expecting the CC
to be in charge of everything. We have Marketing Leads, and we trust
them to do marketing, including MarCon management.
As someone famous once said, "+1"
Whoever the project picks, we would also need a mechanism to
stop people from doing/saying what they want to do/say if start
to act like a loose cannon.
What I suggested above has that feature, while being simple, and not
requiring changes in the project structure or procedures. It simply
empowers the Marketing project and its Leads to do their job.
What I would suggest is that if someone is going to send it out, they
first email it to the other "official spokescritters" with a set time
limit (8 hours, 12 hours, something like that) for someone to
"blackball" the message if there's a valid reason to do so. Or, we could
set a number of people (5 or something) who have to approve it before it
is sent. (In other words, if I wanted to send out a press release or
something, I'd send it to all of the official spokescritters, and once
at least five of them said "looks good!" I'd be able to send it out.)
This has two advantages: we have more than one set of eyes looking it
over, and everyone is on the same page (at least if they read their email).
--
Steven Shelton
Twilight Media & Design
www.TwilightMD.com
www.GLOAMING.us
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