[tor-project] Communications Report: July & August

[Stephanie A. Whited]

Hello Tor,

We launched two major campaigns in the past 2 months: the Tor Bug Smash
and the Run Tor Bridges campaigns. Thanks to everyone who has helped
out. The bridge campaign is running through September -- you can share
your support of bridges and encourage others to set them up with
#RunTorBridges[1].

In July, we prepared materials for two big events in August: DEF CON and
CCCamp. Our first booth at DEF CON was a success, and we'd like to thank
seeess for creating an onion badge for us[2]. Roger had a talk in the
main track on anti-censorship, and I took part in a privacy related
panel in the Blockchain Village.

Momentum with the cryptocurrency community is still building, and a
podcast with multiple Tor people for a popular magazine is in the works.

In August, I joined the Tor "money machine" at a training in DC, and we
are working on new materials to use for fundraising based around what we
learned. We've also begun prep for our EOY fundraising campaign starting
soon.

July and August in links and stats:

 == JULY  ==

Blog posts
https://blog.torproject.org/reflections-our-stockholm-all-hands

Twitter
New followers: 3,455
Top tweets
https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1146128242979614720
https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1146442235032014848
https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1154100944394694656

LinkedIn
https://linkedin.com/company/tor-project/
New followers: 114

Facebook
https://facebook.com/torproject
New followers: 547

Instagram
https://instagram.com/torproject
New followers: 361

Mastodon
https://mastodon.social/@torproject
New followers: 260

Newsletter
https://newsletter.torproject.org/archive/2019-07-29-defending-the-open-internet/

Notable press
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/best-privacy-browsers-and-chrome-alternatives

 == AUGUST ==

Blog posts
https://blog.torproject.org/run-tor-bridges-defend-open-internet
https://blog.torproject.org/join-tors-docshackathon-next-week
https://blog.torproject.org/tors-bug-smash-fund-help-tor-smash-all-bugs

Twitter
New followers: 3,159
Top tweets
https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1166048980930879491
https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1156910864391262208
https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1161636416914362369

LinkedIn
New followers: 146

Facebook
New followers: 603

Instagram
New followers: 739

Mastodon
New followers: 670

Newsletter
https://newsletter.torproject.org/archive/2019-08-30-docsHackathon-run-a-tor-bridge-releases-events/

Notable press
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2019/08/the-best-privacy-and-security-focused-web-browsers/

[1] https://twitter.com/hashtag/RunTorBridges?src=hashtag_click

[2] https://twitter.com/see_ess/status/1155223668336861189

o/

-Steph

-- 
Stephanie A. Whited
Communications Director
The Tor Project
IRC: stephw
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