[Foundation-l] the annual advertisement discussion

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
My bad it is indeed CC-by-nd..

The question why we do not advertise is what is rehashed every year. For me
there is little mileage in it. I care more about realising our ambitions, I
care about getting our message out. In my opinion we can improve our
messaging a lot. When people say that the WMF is transparent, they are
right. We fail however in having our message heard. When we hire new people,
people like Alolita for instance, we hire someone who we should be proud
of.  Proud that she wants to work with us.

Many great activities are happening in our chapters. Learning about these
activities is inspiring. When we know what fun can be had, we can learn from
each other and reduce the amount of overhead and concentrate on where we
make a difference.

Another aspect that is missing in annual advertisement discussion is what we
should do with the money.. Assuming that we make a huge amount of money, I
have blogged about that as well.
Thanks,
      GerardM

http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/11/effect-of-100m-in-advertisement-money.html

On 6 November 2010 22:20, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:

> > Hoi,
> > As the "A" word has been mentioned again as is tradition,  I want us to
> > talk
> > instead about how we can advertise / market our strategy, I want us to
> > discuss how this helps us to reach out. How we can realise the goals that
> > we
> > so beautifully formulated in our strategy..
> >
> > To start it off, I have blogged some of my sentiments.
> > Thanks,
> >      GerardM
> >
> >
> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/11/annual-wikipedia-argument-about.html
>
> Nice sentiments, but you don't address the question of why someone else
> needs the potential advertising revenue more than we do. Google does many
> good things, including providing substantial support to Wikipedia, but
> what good does money in the pockets of their shareholders do us?
>
> Fred
>
>
>
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