While http://discourse.jupyter.org is a good place to share Jupyter related projects with other developers, I think this is not the right place to increase the visibility of projects to a larger audience.
Twitter can be a great place for this, as can be seen for example in the Twitter accounts of Matplotlib, Manim, and Napari. People mention the Twitter handle in their python-package related project tweets, they get retweeted, and the community can engage with the tweets and projects.
The Jupyter Twitter account has 85k followers, which can give a nice boost to small Jupyter projects. This could be a way to reach e.g. educators or researchers who might otherwise not see these projects.
Hence, the question: Would it be possible to monitor the @ProjectJupyter mentions on Twitter?
I am one of the person who tries to keep things in check on social media when I have a few minutes here and there. Mostly trying sometime to have tweetdeck open to see the projectJupyter IPythonDev, and JupyterCon accounts. I’m doing my best, a couple of other folks also have delegation, and it’s a bit best-effort, especially since Twitter can be a quite toxic place (I experienced this myself about a year ago).
Right now, with the current Jupyter Governance refactor the executive council is working on reshaping the communication/social media priorities and I believe they will see if they want to form a group responsible for monitoring/publishing/replying. So I don’t want to make any decision right now.
I’ve added an item on the EC discussion list linking to this thread, and the EC will probably come back to you.
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The Executive Council is currently drafting a charter for a working group to handle social media. If you’d like to discuss this, feel free to come to the Executive Council Office Hours (Tuesday, 10am Pacific time): Jupyter Community Calendar. We’d love to meet you there.
Thanks!
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when I have a few minutes here and there
Thanks a lot for this effort! 
In case that the executive council decides to boost the social media strategy, here are some thoughts from my side:
Monitoring twitter is constant work with high responsibility, and I think no one should be expected to be constantly available for that.
In order to keep that work manageable, all Twitter mentions could be monitored only once a week.
That strategy can be communicated to the content creators by adding the Jupyter Twitter account description “@mentions monitored approx. once a week”.
I think Twitter Followers would like that too, as Jupyter content would appear once a week bundled into their timelines.
Also, there could be explicit and communicated breaks for holidays, where the twitter monitoring is paused.
Twitter can be a quite toxic place
I’ve also experienced these cases, and I think they are the unfortunate exception, while the normal case is that people are excited to hear about new open source projects. Especially because Twitter has a diverse community of educators or researchers who are not regular checking scipy-dev forums.
Because of the Matplotlib retweets, I got in contact with Open Source contributors whom I would never have met otherwise, and I think that the Jupyter Twitter account has similar potential to connect the community. From my experience, a retweet from an account with many followers can make the difference if a project dies unseen, or if that project grows a community.
Thanks for the invitation, I’ll try to come next week!