Brainstormed list of marketing ideas

Brainstormed list of marketing ideas

The following is a list of ideas that could be considered for supporting Samvera's marketing activity

Audiences

  • Internal

    • Institutional managers/senior managers

    • Institutional decision-makers

    • Library colleagues

    • IT colleagues

    • Faculty and students

  • External

    • Non-Samvera sites

      • University and college libraries

      • Media organisations

      • Museums

    • Repository community

    • Library community

    • Funders

    • Open source software community

Marketing materials

  • Documents/text-based

    • Flyer

      • have a small number printed (color) for hand out 

      • produce a pdf for people to print on their own to bring to other events or internal back home

    • Brochure

      • possible to make a 6 panel brochure (1 page) folded so that part of the 2 panel design could also be used as a bookmark

    • Website

      • Case studies

      • Descriptive text

      • FAQ

    • Social media - value, given time needed, questionable

      • Twitter - @samverarepo

        • who is posting on this? responsible for posts?

        • Esme Cowles set this up.  Steering can tweet from the account (via Tweetdeck) currently

      • Facebook?

      • Instagram?

      • Other?

    • Logo / caption

      • tagline for printed pieces

    • powerpoint template with logo and color scheme

      • also set of standard slides about Samvera


  • Bumpf (see vendor list for suppliers)

    • Hex stickers

      • Other stickers?

      • DCE has the design patterns

    • Bookmarks

    • Bags

      • light weight reusable grocery bag ( small foldable)

      • tote like bag

      • freezer bag

      • lunch boxy bag

    • Memory sticks

    • Luggage tag

    • T-shirts

      • These are arranged through Stanford currently

Marketing messages

(See also the Draft content for questions we are asked and responses to these)

  • What Samvera is

  • Why use Samvera

  • Examples of how it's in use, what people do with it, why Spotlight instead of Omeka, etc.

  • What Samvera can do (for them)

  • What Samvera has done (for those using it)

  • How Samvera works (and how you can take part)

    • Technology

    • Community

  • Who is behind Samvera? - spotlights on people in the community, in different roles, from different institution flavors