AssalamoAlaikum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatohu Greetings of the day, Great idea Aidan, social media all platforms play a vital role in anything become trend. I myself using Ubuntu since 2006, I'm not so much technical but recently started my business focusing replacing M$ Windows with Linux and LibreOffice. I'm writing articles (very slowly) on my LinkedIn. IqbalSajid.com
Best Regards Was'Salaam Iqbal Sajid On Thu, 17 Jul 2025, 1:07 am Aidan Horn, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi LibreOffice Marketing Team > > This is my first time volunteering for LibreOffice. I started using > computers in high school in 2009, and now I am a software engineer, using R > mainly, and a bit of Python and SQL. I use Ubuntu about 99% of the time, > for example Ubuntu Desktop on my desktop and laptop. I haven't used any MS > Office subscription for two years already. I am quite passionate about > Office being a waste of money, which is what is driving me to help > contribute to the success of LibreOffice. I am intending on starting with > the marketing side first, as my programming languages are high-level. > > I see that you have guidelines about going to conferences, but my concern > is about reaching the mass of people who aren't experts on the computer. I > feel that there would be a lot of value in using social media well. > Facebook is getting old (I say this while I actively administrate a few > Facebook groups with over 15 000 members each), but I find LinkedIn > professional and a high-quality social media platform. I see that the > LinkedIn page at > https://www.linkedin.com/company/libreoffice/posts/?feedView=all only has > one post, and I am willing to be added to the team for the LinkedIn page, > so that posts can be created more frequently. > > I also think a WhatsApp Channel would be a fantastic way to reach young > people. A WhatsApp Channel scales very well, includes analytics, and is > very easy to use. For clarification, this is the definition of a WhatsApp > Channel: https://faq.whatsapp.com/549900560675125 . I am not talking about > a Community for the public. To give an example of how this can scale, the > World Economic Forum has over two million followers on its WhatsApp Channel: > https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaDcHBKGZNCihKxwiD0L > > Kind regards 🙂, > Aidan Horn > www.aidanhorn.co.za > Calendar > <https://calendly.com/aidan-horn/> > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy -- Sent from Gmail Huawei -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
