Tagging externally produced Medium posts

[StevieBenton]

Hi @KevZawacki

I was just speaking with Erika about the possibility of tagging Medium posts created by people coming to the festival, or speaking about it. While we can't tag themselves, we discussed whether there are ways we can get the posts tagged by the authors.

I think the easiest way is to reach out via Twitter to those who created the posts and ask them to add the tag MozFest 2016. There are a couple of exceptions though:

• If a piece doesn't reflect the values of the Festival (ie is abusive, non-inclusive etc)
• If it's really badly written
• If the author is obviously under 18 years of age (I include this last part because while age at the festival itself doesn't matter, I think we should be cautious about contacting them on a public platform. What do others think?)

We could set up some kind of alert, either in Medium or in Google Alerts, with relevant keywords. We could then do a daily sweep on Twitter contacting those who have written articles we'd like tagged.

What do you think?

cc @edrushka

[StevieBenton]

Here's an example post which Erika has shared with me. https://medium.com/@all_about_code/countdown-to-mozfest-2016-youth-zone-here-i-come-c84c0c4a5f96#.z9u8z0xuv

[edrushka]

@ldecoursy are there any guidelines about contacting youth on public platforms like Twitter or Medium? I'd love to have the youth voice represented in our Medium publication, but want to make sure we're reach out in the appropriate way. See article linked in comment above as an example. Thanks!

[ldecoursy]

@edrushka I'm not aware of specific guidelines. May be a q for Abigail - we recently had to get parental consent for under 18s to participate in a community call. Not sure about outreach/reposting. In this specific case is it a direct connection with Dorine? Maybe worth checking with her.

[edrushka]

Thanks - I can reach out to Dorine.

For non-youth posts, Marc thinks there's a way we can reach out directly on Medium asking the author if we can include in our publication.

[StevieBenton]

I like the sound of that!

[KevZawacki]

Hey,

What @edrushka said -- we can request the piece for republication directly via Medium, and add a brief note.

[KevZawacki]

Like so: scroll to the bottom right of the story, and

[StevieBenton]

I had no idea it would be so simple! The more I see of Medium the more I really like it.

[edrushka]

What will we do with blogs that aren't on Medium? Does it make sense to email and ask if a) they have a medium account they can publish on and b) if they don't have a medium account, to publish from our account giving them author credit??

[StevieBenton]

I think we can do both of those and where an email address isn't available for a blog, then a comment would do. I can pick up some of the re-publishing to Medium that will result if you'd like.

At the very least we should keep an eye on what's out there on social (and might not be tagged as MozFest) and retweet where we are unable to republish.

[KevZawacki]

I think we should avoid publishing for people and giving them credit. a) we're creating a lot of work for ourselves, and more importantly b) many people won't notice the credit, and assume the words are those of Mozilla.

[StevieBenton]

I think that's sensible. So, for content on the Medium platform we ask if folks can tag with MozFest 2016 and for those on other platforms we perhaps just actively share on social?

[KevZawacki]

Sounds good! Worth noting the tag should have no space ("MozFest2016").