[Marketing] Promoting OSGeo projects on The MapScaping Podcast

Enock Seth Nyamador enockseth at gmail.com
Wed May 27 07:58:51 PDT 2020


Hi Daniel,

Thank you very much, I really follow and enjoy this podcast too.

@Astrid since this Friday is the last Friday in May, It is a good time to
connect and discuss, I have added it to the agenda here [1], we can add
others.

1. https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Meeting_2020-05-29

Best,

Am Mi., 27. Mai 2020 um 10:35 Uhr schrieb Astrid Emde (OSGeo) <
astrid_emde at osgeo.org>:

> Hello Daniel,
>
> thanks for reaching out to OSGeo.
>
> I really like your podcasts and it would be great if some of our
> projects could present themselves.
>
> Here is a link to the episodes. https://mapscaping.podbean.com/
>
> @MarketingTeam - we should discuss Daniels suggestion at our next
> meeting.
>
> Astrid
>
> Am 19.05.2020 10:02 schrieb Jody Garnett:
> > Welcome Daniel, and thanks for introducing yourself.
> >
> > It is an interesting idea, we can certainly help make introductions,
> > and some of the projects may be available to take part.
> >
> > Do you have a link to your episodes on PostGIS/QGIS/QField/R? Can I
> > ask those were based on your own experience, or if you had someone
> > already available to interview?
> >
> > --
> > Jody Garnett
> >
> > On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 00:52, Daniel O'Donohue <danodonohue at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi OSGeo Marketing List
> >>
> >> My name is Daniel O’Donohue, I am a big fan and user of open
> >> source geospatial software. I am also the host of The MapScaping
> >> Podcast which is a weekly podcast for the geospatial community.
> >>
> >> I would like to work with you to increase the awareness of open
> >> source geospatial software. I have published episodes about
> >> Postgres/ Postgis, QGIS, QField and Input, R, and geospatial python
> >> which my audience has responded well to. I would really like to
> >> promote and introduce people to other open-source geospatial tools
> >> but producing and publishing podcasts is not free and finding
> >> qualified guests to talk about things like GeoNode and Geoserver is
> >> not easy.
> >>
> >> Before I go into more detail about how we might be able to work
> >> together, here is a brief introduction to the podcast.
> >>
> >> The MapScaping Podcast is a podcast created for the geospatial
> >> community. I publish a mixture of technical educational episodes
> >> focusing on specific concepts and thought leadership episodes that
> >> look at certain aspects of the geospatial industry.
> >>
> >> Our audience consists of business owners and geospatial
> >> professionals. 65% of our audience is based in North America with
> >> the bulk of the remaining 35% being based in the UK, Australia, New
> >> Zealand, and Germany.
> >>
> >> The average episode is downloaded between 1700 and 2100 times in the
> >> first week after publication and will be downloaded an estimated
> >> 4000 - 5000 times in the first. These numbers are based on organic
> >> distribution and do not take into account any paid marketing efforts
> >> on our part. We work hard to increase the reach of the podcast and I
> >> am confident we can dramatically increase these numbers in the
> >> coming months but this is what the numbers look like today.
> >>
> >> For every episode, we produce we also create a 2000 - 2500 word SEO
> >> optimized article and spend a week promoting the episode across our
> >> various channels. MapScaping has 31,400 followers on Twitter and
> >> 54,000 on Facebook. Our email list is just over 2000.
> >>
> >> How we might be able to work together
> >>
> >> Each podcast episode and accompanying article costs $500 USD to
> >> produce and promote.
> >>
> >> So my pitch to you is this:
> >>
> >> *
> >>
> >> We split the cost, $250 each. OSGeo helps me find a qualified guest
> >> to talk about one of OSgeo’s projects and I produce and promote
> >> the podcast episode.
> >> *
> >>
> >> OSGeo helps promote the podcast episode to their audience/list
> >>
> >> If this is something that you might want to be involved with I would
> >> love to hear from you. Also happy to go into more detail and answer
> >> any questions you might have.
> >>
> >> Hope you are all safe and well. This is my first time posting to the
> >> list so apologies if I have broken in rules, that was not my
> >> intention!
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Daniel
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-Enock
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