1) Introduction to Content and Marketing at 7 Cups
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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@SoulfullyAButterfly
The Content Volunteer Team aligns perfectly with my interests! As a medical student with a passion for psychiatry and mental health, I am confident that I can contribute effectively to all four areas the team focuses on.
Additionally, I am eager to share my knowledge and experiences with others, especially considering my pre-med student days when I was suffering and had numerous questions but with poor access to quality resources. During that time, receiving answers from someone in the field of psychiatry would have meant the world to me.I also have a strong inclination to correct misinformation and prevent the spread of ideas that may be harmful or unproductive. I want to ensure that others don't face the same challenges I did and can benefit from the knowledge and support I can provide.
@SoulfullyAButterfly
I'd like to be a writer and share fresh contents. Even though I don't have previous experience, I try my level best to perform well in the writings. This will be a really good opportunity for me to explore new things and enhance my knowledge. ✨
Hi @SoulfullyAButterfly, I'm interested in collabing with an expert to research and write fresh content, or helping in the Q&A section, since I have a lot of mental health and illness lived experience.
@SoulfullyAButterfly I am interested in Content Creation, since I love being creative. I would love to write texts and also create graphics :)
@SoulfullyAButterfly
I love the article
@SoulfullyAButterfly
Which current area of the Content or Marketing focus at 7 Cups interests you the most?
Definitely the more article based side, as I prefer to completely keep off social media. I how ever, very much enjoy writing posts and articles and all that amazing stuff! Id even make posts and graphics for someone else to post! Just minus my name anywhere 😅
@SoulfullyAButterfly
What interests me more is the social media side of things. Reaching out to people in need with compassionate messages and encouraging them to join 7cups and also posting content to be seen by audience of relevance is interesting to me.
@SoulfullyAButterfly
The Content Volunteer team has got my interest, mostly in Q&A Pages and Experimental Mental Health News and Advice Section. Other roles are very interesting to me, too. However, I like writing content in this form more than writing directly on social media, but I am okay with that, too.
@SoulfullyAButterfly I’m interested in this course because I want to be a better writer on social media for mental health
@Countrygirl095
Great. Welcome
@SoulfullyAButterfly I'm interested in the writing part of it since I'm a writer full-time already I'm looking forward to learning basic skills