1) Introduction to Content and Marketing at 7 Cups (OUTDATED)
7 Cups currently has separate dedicated teams that focus on both Content and Marketing. This discussion outlines both teams and provides an overview of their current focus.
(A) Content Volunteer Team
The Content Volunteer Team was relaunched and redesigned in 2020 and is led by @SoulfullyAButterfly - more information including an application can be found here
Focus:
The team works to improve site content in the following areas:
(i) Questions and Answers (Q&A Pages): Quality answers are researched and written in light of search engine optimization (SEO) and other best practices to ensure that the community gets verified, valuable information in response to common mental health questions and concerns. These answers are considered “short tasks” as they involve quicker content production.
(ii) Expert Mental Health News and Advice Section: Existing, published articles are reviewed to ensure up-to-date information, quality length, expert verified facts and other important topic categories by editors.
In addition, fresh content is produced for:
(iii) Expert Mental Health News and Advice Section: Alongside fresh content provided by experts, the team works to research and produce relevant fresh content articles that help boost information and awareness related to the categories that 7 Cups offers expertise in. Writers are welcome to collaborate with experts to publish co-authored articles or produce content individually to be published under the 7 Cups Community Account.
(iv) All other Content Needs: The team is ready to tackle and undertake content tasks that may come up as other needs. These content assignments can relate to listener guides, upcoming growth path playlists, improvement and support of online therapy-related information as well as many other possibilities!
(B) Team Lightship
As a revamp to the Social Soldiers Team at 7 Cups, Project Lightship was announced in late 2020 as the current volunteer-led marketing team for 7 Cups on Twitter. It is currently being led by @Rebecca947 and @Isentropic
Focus:
The team intends to eliminate mental health stigma by identifying those who need support as presented by social media (Twitter) based messages. The team not only works on bringing awareness by using and promoting mental health-based content but actively outreaches to potential users in need of a safe haven to invite them to use 7 Cups.
The team currently has one track with a focus on:
(i) Outreaching to 20 people with compassionate messages and support per month
(ii) Generating content and posting 5 posts.
As the team is currently testing only one track, we can expect future opportunities with the growth of Team Lightship! Further information, including an application, can be found here
Other Social Media Platforms for Content:
In the meantime, 7 Cups has official accounts on social media platforms that are run by community admins. Students of this current course as well as the Content Team will prospectively add to these content and content marketing efforts!
Find and follow the 7 Cups Official Accounts on Social Media:
Instagram - @7Cups | Twitter - @7Cups & @7CupsTeen | Facebook - 7CupsOfTea | Youtube - 7 Cups of Tea
Question for Discussion:
Which current area of the Content or Marketing focus at 7 Cups interests you the most? Please feel welcome to share your reasons.
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I am very much interesting in the marketing part as I'm soon going to pursue my masters in the said field which would give me some exposure in it.@SoulfullyAButterfly
Which current area of the Content or Marketing focus at 7 Cups interests you the most? Please feel welcome to share your reasons.
@SoulfullyAButterfly All of those CDM areas look very interesting! I think I could get behind any one of them, but personally I'm most interested in the Expert Mental Health News and Advice section. I think I would do well at editing such articles, and it would be really nice to do so for such a good cause.
@VioletFields003 yay! We need more editors in CDM Mentor team or Content Team (both teams have editor role). If you want after completing the program, you're very welcome to join us 😊
I'm interested in content creation and articles.... Little interest in marketing... Need to guide people with more training.... Thank you.....
@brightRainbows1010
Welcome to CDM brightRainbow 😊 feel free to PM me for any guidance or assitance during the program. We also share CDM tips regularly on alert above 🔔. All the best to you!
@SoulfullyAButterfly
Thank you for this insights!
@SoulfullyAButterfly
Hi Soul 👋
I'm definitely more interested in aspect A regarding site content. I enjoy reading pre-existing articles so I'd me more than glad to contribute my editing/review skills alongside improving other forms of content on here (be it updating facts or writing my own).
Which current area of the Content or Marketing focus at 7 Cups interests you the most? Please feel welcome to share your reasons.
I find B) Team Lightship the most interesting. Honestly, this has been something I have always found to interest me as I quite enjoy making pretty graphics on Canva. It is something I would not mind doing. The only problem is I do not have a Twitter account, nor have I ever had one. Other than that, I really think this is something I would do well at to help spread word. ♡
@SoulfullyAButterfly
all other content needs lying under "content volunteer team "interests me. Just my motivation being to get out of my comfort zone.
@SoulfullyAButterfly
I would love to be a part of 'Content Volunteer Team' and help add fresh content, review and proofread existing content and help answer Q&As.
I have a passion for writing and I've been maintaining a personal blog for the past few years. I have also recently been into writing poetry on ***.
Even though my forte is writing, I might even be able to help out with Team Lightship, as I am a people person and love to interact with people all over the world.
ivorySea989
Hi. I’m Andra, and I’m really happy to be here. I’m looking forward to meeting my mentors and classmates, and interacting with the community as a whole. I’m here because I haven’t worked in a couple of years, since just before Covid, and I feel like I need to dust off my professional skills. My career has been in writing, editing, marketing, communication, strategy, development, and promotion. Additionally, I’ve found myself in need to mental health support, of late. However, after searching for a very specific niche mental health community, and (still) not finding it, I’ve come to realize I need to be the one to build the community I’m seeking.
To answer the question here, I’m versant in marketing and content development as are differentiated here, and I’ll prefer to focus on the writing/editing “content” portion. I’m also looking forward to researching some areas of personal interest and contributing articles on those topics.