 well i can share can people see that? yes i can see you you can see my slides yeah? yeah but not fullscreen yet um... you have to toggle if you have everybody listed in a grid then you won't see it full does it work everybody else? can you confirm that you can see my oh i see yeps in the chat this is like being a twitch stream of this so if anybody wants to donate some bits or subscribe um i'll try and get a good speed run in here as well i have 14 minutes now to give a presentation but uh basically i just want to provide a quick overview of the social media activity that we're doing inside Leib office at the Dockham Foundation in the marketing project as well so not just what i'm doing and or italos doing but the wider community as well um so obviously social media is a good way to reach out to people to get to um spread the word about Leib office and get new users but also to encourage people to get involved as well um and join our community and our projects because as we say as we've been saying a lot recently having 200 million users is great but if not many people are contributing then it's just a nice number at the end so as well as marketing the product we are focusing on marketing the community and the project as well that joining the project is not just a nice thing to do it actually has some benefits so um the current status of our twitter account we are currently at about 35 000 followers growing around 700 followers a month as i mentioned we are increasingly focusing on our project as much as the product so um not just telling people that Leib office exists but that they can take part that they can join the community build up experience as well get new experiences which could be useful for a future career maybe um so we're highlighting different activities within the community community interviews and so forth different local events obviously many of them online this year um always trying to add a call to action so join us be a part um make a difference don't just read about Leib office but you can do something as well we've been doing some polls twitter has an extremely basic poll feature like mini-surface to encourage interaction we're a bit limited what we can do here because we can't promise any super special new features in the future that all depends if anybody chooses to work on them um we've been posting tips of the day Leib office tips of the day as well and these actually come from the source code which also generates the tips in the Leib office tips box that appears when you first start the program and on subsequent starts if you don't disable it so it's the same source here to avoid duplication of efforts we just took all of those tips of the day and we post them once a day on twitter uh and also we've been trying to work more closely with the ecosystem members as well um as a non-profit foundation they're a bit limited in some of the things we can do but we um we like or we tweak activity from different ecosystem members as well who are contributing to to the Leib office um so there's a quick graph of the um twitter follow account since um the start of last year so we've gone from about 23,000 to 35,000 almost 36,000 as well um next up is mastodon um which a lot of you may know is a federated open source micro blogging service so basically very similar to twitter in its application but much more friendly for free software communities as well so um last year we moved on to or we created a mastodon account on the fostered on instance so because it's federated anybody can set up an instance um and um so the fostered on people very kindly who host lots of different free and open source software projects so they set us up with an account and we added logos and everything and we post similar content to the um twitter account but um mastodon is provides more room more characters and a few other extra features as well but most importantly the mastodon account um mastodon and fostered on are obviously much more technical in the audience so we have a smaller audience there 4.7 thousand um 4.7 thousand followers um and um but they are they're very very technically minded people um william points out in the chat the fostered on is english only so um yeah i think um we did try somebody tried to set up another um the office account for another language of fostered on but it wasn't allowed oh so william did yep thank you but um so um i'm going to talk about this in a moment the the other languages um but um so yeah mastodon has mentioned federated fostered friendly um 4600 followers so far a technical audience so they they tend to ask us questions about the development of uh the office not end user questions but you know when are you going to implement this or how can i help out with with that so helps we have some very good discussions on there often lots of different people from different free and open source software projects jump in to the discussions which is really nice it's like a little forum where you can see perspectives from different uh free and open source software projects so get a quick chart of the followers since we started the account about 18 months ago um i do a bit earlier than that because it starts here from 1500 but um we had a very rapid um growth as soon as we joined and since then um a nice steady growth as well facebook page uh i won't talk about um that much um facebook the growth is not particularly large these days it's sort of creeping up the page has been around for a long time with it since the project and it's very much focused on end users like facebook in general so we have 58 000 likes which correlates to followers because i think most people who like a page become automatic followers so um we get lots of questions on facebook in all sorts of languages and i was a bit puzzled by that a while ago but it's i think it's because a lot of web browsers auto translate pages now so uh we our face our english language leave off his facebook page we get questions in estonian and all sorts of really interesting languages but i'm like okay i don't think i can answer that um but i think a lot of people have these automatic translation tools installed so someone comes along and thinks oh they've got this whole um page in estonian or as simon points out facebook itself often auto translates comments and content so a very useful feature but it does lead to some very interesting discussions um i had a question in french recently and i said well um thanks for the question the page is in english but i'm going to try and auto translate and he said no no your page is in french like it's probably auto translating but um we get some feature requests of course on facebook um so we point people to the fact that they can get involved or submit an enhancement request but if they really wanted the feature they should go to the ecosystem and hopefully support some developers to implement it now let's um turn to the video channel um youtube channel here is the libra office 70 new features video that we put online two months ago made by our super talented indonesian community um they made a brilliant video much more lively and exciting than my previous videos um which had a kind of different style as well but they used the the new branding and the artwork and animations it's shorter very snappy um and yeah 105 000 views yeah within two months so um it's really good result and subtitles in i think 15 languages again thanks to the community thanks to everybody who translates um the the scripts that we put on the wiki um the volunteer time that's we really really appreciate it so that also helps to get the um the the number of views the videos up as well so big thanks to the indonesian community we'd love to work with you again on on another on the next video or indeed another video i want to make a new community video soon so a few a few extra stats about our video channel work so um yeah nearly two million views on our youtube channel now um with uh almost 12 and a half thousand subscribers we're posting the videos about the new releases but some community activities as well the german community is working on tutorial videos um we're starting to upload some videos to pier tube at the moment um paolo's instance paolo on our on our board directors um but we are considering our infrastructure team is considering setting up our own um pier tube instance as well um we're looking at these things or like william mentions a mastodon instance so we have to look at the resources that we have for these things um and of course the videos from this conference um will hopefully be on youtube and pier tube soon as well obviously we've we had a few technical gremlins at the start of this um but we are trying to record the sessions um so uh we will put them online um after the after the conference and another quick graph also the last 18 months of video views on the youtube channel going from 1.3 million to nearly 2 million and you can see little little bumps in the graph there from from the releases so a couple of months ago when we released leap office 70 and the the great video that we mentioned bumped up the um the views and so finally that's what we've been doing but what's next just what where can we improve um what where do we need help so the biggest thing is having more social media um in different locations and languages um so we reached out to the native language projects about six months ago or a year ago saying that there were still some big gaps um in our social media coverage we had nothing in polish for instance yeah i think the poland is 40 million people and we had nothing so um a really cool guy marzine um popco came in came to me and said what can i do let me help out and since then he set up a facebook polish community uh he's handing out stickers as well he's organizing events like mini events on the polish facebook page so he's doing a fantastic job stepping in where there was a big language gap in our social media presence um so we really appreciate that so if anybody um people watching now or watching the video later and as marina points out marzine is a tdf member as well now yeah i encouraged him to join as a as a member of tdf because he's working hard in the community so it's good to have him on board um but yes if uh for everybody watching this at any point um if you if there is missing libre office social media activity in your native language or a language you speak um let us know because we can work together to get things set up we want to be we we have libre office in over a hundred languages our localization community does a fantastic job making it available to so many people and we want the same with with social media um because um there's a lot of things people can do on social media that are specific for their own audiences so not just translating that we post but actually um focusing the social media activity on those um countries and regions where um different things work better so anybody wants to give us a hand we'd really appreciate it we will support you we can give you materials um so we also want more coordination then between the different native language accounts because we have lots of um accounts working in in different places um but we should perhaps try to coordinate them better maybe set up a a back channel um like we have our marketing telegram group for instance but maybe we need something specific for the people running social media channels so we can really quickly respond and communicate um we should do more activity as well especially during the night uh in europe because um when it's when people in the usa come back from come back home in the evening we tend to be rather quiet on social media then so either um be um more active then getting more people involved to be active then or um postponing tweets automating tweets to be postponed to be posted at those times then there are some up and coming social media services as well um we see these popping up all the time um that's um the thing is some of them are very political like somebody gets banned from twitter for controversial reasons and goes off and then promotes a new you know free speech social media platform and everybody's talking about it for a while but then it becomes complicated and this platform becomes very political or used for political things so um we need to keep our eyes open though so if anybody sees a new um social media platform the things it's worth checking out or it's worth at least getting established on even if it's only a small amount of work even if we post one thing a day but if we uh if there's something we're missing we're far from perfect then um do let us know and um and we will investigate so that's the that's the state of play for the um social media at the moment um Bogdan says thanks Mike thank you Bogdan um the this is technically end of the session but I don't and we've got a half hour break now but I don't think there is anything in this room right now so we can still leave it open for a few minutes if anybody has any questions or or thoughts to share it's always a pleasure to listen to you Mike oh thank you no but thanks to um thanks to everybody who does work on their different social media channels and and the websites of course as well and the videos and everything that we do like um there's only two of us here at TDF working on marketing and a lot of other jobs as well so we um we we couldn't make this international effort possible without all of you I see loads of things I don't understand I see the Japanese community tweeting and supporting us and translating things the same with the Brazilians the Brazilian community Spanish speaking community as well so it's it's just it's fantastic to see and it's quite humbling really that um it's people in the community doing doing the really good work out there um getting the word spread so yeah cheers everybody um I hope you're enjoying the conference despite the limited setup this year um but we still have the chat room open as well there is the conf underscore chat I think I will pop in later for a beer um and um yeah it's nice to see lots of names and faces some new some new names as well some um some names I know and even though we can't be together in person this year fingers fingers crossed and everybody and that's we can do it next year okay here's everybody bye bye bye bye what's the pleasure and thank you