Changes afoot for tomorrow’s Mozilla Events Call!

Our bi-weekly events call to evaluate and attend events on Mozilla’s behalf has a new format.  We’re rolling it into a greater Mozilla Community Marketing call – w00t!  The call will take place every other Wednesday from 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. PST.

We hope you’ll join us!  This is a great opportunity to connect with fellow Mozilla community members, or get involved for the first time.  Here’s tomorrow’s agenda.

Call information:

• Time: Wednesday, January 28th @ 10am PST / 6pm UTC.
• The dial-in number is: +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391#.  Or you can use our toll-free number: +1.800.707.2533, followed by 369# and then 7391#.
• IRC: For those that can’t make the call or want to participate online, join us in #marketing on IRC.

Thanks!

A resolution I can get behind: Spreading Firefox!

I’m not really one to make New Year’s resolutions because, frankly,  I don’t keep them!   However, my colleague Alix shared this awesome initiative to introduce five people to Firefox in 2009.  I’m jumping on board and vow to:

• Take more time to sit down and walk people through it! It’s one thing to tell people about Firefox or espouse its virtues, but a live tutorial goes farther.   I spent a good hour showing my Aunt Patty the in’s and out’s of bookmarking over Christmas.  As a researcher she is now completely sold on Firefox.
• Expose the joy of add-ons. I’ve found that people have heard of add-ons, but haven’t necessarily tried them.  It’s been a lot of fun showing people add-ons that fit what they do on the Web –  things just seem to click.
• Go beyond my circle. All of my friends and the people I interact with on semi-regular basis (my dentist, chircopractor, vet, hair stylist, mechanic, etc.) have heard my spiel.  While I have the distinct pleasure of helping market Firefox at my day job, I plan on putting more effort into introducing Firefox to new people in my “off hours.” One thought is sitting down at Starbucks with a sign or laptop sticker reading, “Have questions about Firefox?  Ask me!”   Sort of hokey, but why not?!

This campaign serves as a great reminder that nothing tops face-to-face interaction and word of mouth to spread Firefox.  There’s even a Facebook group.  Keep up the great work!