Thanks SJ, Bishakha , Ramesh and et all.<div><br></div><div>SJ,</div><div>Currently the internal details of the team are only available on the members wiki ( <a href="http://members.wikimedia.in">members.wikimedia.in</a>) . May be I will put it on the public wiki too ( <a href="http://wiki.wikimedia.in">wiki.wikimedia.in</a>) </div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards<br>Tinu Cherian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Ramesh N G <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rameshng@gmail.com">rameshng@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br>Good job Tinu. <br><br>good to see the energetic members of wiki are in the list. <br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tinucherian@wikimedia.in" target="_blank">tinucherian@wikimedia.in</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi all,<br>
We are pleased to announce the first batch of our team for
Communications, PR & Media Relations of the Wikimedia India
Chapter. <br>
<ul>
<li> Tinu Cherian, Head, Communications</li>
<li> Arun Ramaratnam, Official Spokesperson</li>
<li> Anirudh Bhati</li>
<li> Srikeit Tadepalli</li>
<li> Noopur Raval</li>
<li> Srikanth Lakshmanan</li>
<li> Naveen Francis</li>
<li> Pranav Curumsey</li>
<li> Ram Shankar Yadav</li>
<li> Mitra Sharma</li>
<li> Anivar Aravind </li>
</ul>
<br>
We are still discussing with lots of potential people who are
interested and have the necessary skills. We will be adding them as
we progress. <br>
<br>
<b>Scope of Work</b><br>
<br>
Duties and Responsibilities of the team include, but are not limited
to the following:<br>
<br>
<b> General :</b><br>
<ul>
<li> Development of a comprehensive multi-language
Communications Plan for Wikimedia Movement in India to support
the Chapter's strategic objectives. This plan must include
social media, digital outreach, Public Relations (PR) and
supporting community and chapter outreach.</li>
<li> Implementation of the Communications Plan - including
measuring of results focused on growth in participation and
readership within India and continuous improvement as required.</li>
<li> Identification, selection and onboarding of
specialised agencies as required.</li>
<li> Build a close partnership with the Community and
Wikimedia Foundation India Programs to support communications
and media outreach.</li>
<li> Participating in Global Wikimedia Communications
committee and subscribed to its mailing list:
<a href="mailto:wmfcc-l@mail.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">wmfcc-l@mail.wikimedia.org</a> </li>
</ul>
<br>
<b> Communications :</b><br>
<ul>
<li> Supporting and overseeing communication with Wikimedia
community which includes Chapter members, general public and
media.</li>
<li> Helping the Chapter Secretary in the monthly report
that is send to the members and the community.</li>
<li> Providing ad hoc support to the Chapter &
Community on all aspects of communications as may be deemed
necessary. </li>
</ul>
<br>
<b> Public/ Media Relations :</b><br>
<ul>
<li> Coordinating communications with the press, including
press releases, interviews, and inquiries.</li>
<li> Handling press enquiries and answering them.</li>
<li> Build a close partnership and working relation with a
network of journalists and news editors all over India and
abroad.</li>
<li> Maintaining a list of people willing to be contacted
& interviewed by the media.</li>
<li> Identify potential "media worthy" stories and getting
them published into the mass media.</li>
<li> Contacting editors and publishers of Wikipedia press
coverage to request that corrections be published as needed.</li>
<li> Public Relations (PR) to build and manage
relationships with media and drive messaging that promotes
participation.</li>
<li> Researching press lists, monitoring and analyzing
media coverage, both negative and positive.</li>
<li> will be responsible for executing and carrying out PR
campaigns on behalf of the chapter.</li>
<li> Improve Wikimedia media coverage especially on Indian
local languages.</li>
<li> Supporting the media coverage of Chapter , Wikimedia
Foundation and Community led events and initiatives in India
like Wikiconference, wikimeeetups, wikiacademies, workshops etc
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<b> Digital Properties/Social Media :</b><br>
<ul>
<li> Digital outreach comprises how to drive awareness and
education and movitation to participate in various projects from
within the existing readership base.</li>
<li> Social media includes managing and driving social
media vehicles to drive participation (i.e., building awareness
and driving traffic to Indic language editions, raising
awareness of how content is created on various projects and
motivating and enabling participation.)</li>
<li> Maintain the official IRC channel on freenode:
#wikimedia-in and regularly conduct planned IRC sessions.</li>
<li> Maintain the social media properties including the
ones on facebook & twitter and Youtube channels, and all
Public facing Digital resources like the wiki, blog and website.</li>
<li> Keeping the Wikimedia India Press kit and In the News
sections on the public wiki up to date.</li>
<li> Interacting with the Chapter OTRS team.</li>
<li> Help and co-ordinate the Community Newsletter,
WikiPatrika </li>
</ul>
<br>
<b> Team Structure</b><br>
<br>
<ul>
<li> The team is led by Head of Communications, PR & Media
Relations, Wikimedia Chapter. The position is a voluntary and
not a staff/paid position.</li>
<li> There is an official Spokesperson of the Wikimedia India
Chapter. The position is a voluntary and not a staff/paid
position.</li>
<li> The above positions will be handled either by a single
person or two individuals.</li>
<li> The Team will be internally divided into Communications ,
Press & Social Media sub-teams. </li>
</ul>
You can find more information at
<a href="http://members.wikimedia.in/Communications" target="_blank">http://members.wikimedia.in/Communications</a> <br>
<br>
Regards<br>
Tinu Cherian<br>
Wikimedia India Chapter. <br><span><font color="#888888">
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