Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of VolunteerRecruit

Timestamp:

Apr 24, 2007, 11:29:12 AM (18 years ago)

Author:

KSMarksPsych

Comment:

Updated links to point to wiki pages. TranslateIntro, GridRepublic? and AccountManagers? need to be created. Should tasks.php actually be project_tasks.php? It's a 404 as it stands right now.

VolunteerRecruit

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 Most of these suggestions involve writing prose to be read by the general public. If (like many scientists) you are not good at this or avoid doing it, find someone who is good at it. This could be one of your students, a friend of a friend, or a professional writer.
 
-English is the most widely-spoken language among BOINC participants, and you should probably use it as the main language for web materials and email. BOINC provides mechanisms for [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/translation.php Web site translation]; it's generally easy to get volunteers to do this.
+English is the most widely-spoken language among BOINC participants, and you should probably use it as the main language for web materials and email. BOINC provides mechanisms for [TranslateIntro Web site translation]; it's generally easy to get volunteers to do this.
 
 == Project web site ==
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     * Get in the mass media (newspapers, magazines, radio, television) as much as possible. If your institution has a PR director or media spokesperson, contact them while you're developing your project, and again any time your project has major news. If no such person is available, call local media outlets yourself.
     * Exploit existing organizational relationships. If you work at a University, try to get your project running on the PCs in the teaching labs, and on the PCs of students, faculty and staff. If you have connections with organizations with PR capabilities (i.e., web sites or newsletters), enlist their support for your project, and get them to publicize it. A typical example: professional organization in your subject area.
-    * The BOINC web site will generally announce new projects. Also, make sure your project is listed on [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/acct_mgrs.php account managers] like GridRepublic and BAM!
+    * The BOINC web site will generally announce new projects. Also, make sure your project is listed on [AccountManagers account managers] like GridRepublic and BAM!
     * Use the web. Announce your project in forums like Slashdot, and on the message boards of the major cross-project teams like BOINC Synergy, Overclockers UK, Team Anandtech, etc. 
 
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     * They provide a mechanism for inserting a secure 'opt-out' link. Note: You should ALWAYS include an 'opt-out' link at the bottom of emails (both HTML and text). In may be illegal for you to do a mass email without one. Make sure you test this link. 
 
-The scripts requires that you use [http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/ PHPMailer], a PHP function for sending mail that's more full-featured than the one built into PHP. Download it, put it in html/inc, and set the USE_PHPMAILER, PHPMAILER_HOST, and PHPMAILER_MAILER variables in [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/web_config.php your project.inc file].
+The scripts requires that you use [http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/ PHPMailer], a PHP function for sending mail that's more full-featured than the one built into PHP. Download it, put it in html/inc, and set the USE_PHPMAILER, PHPMAILER_HOST, and PHPMAILER_MAILER variables in [WebConfig your project.inc file].
 
 All of the tools let you send multipart HTML/text messages. We recommend that you use this feature - and HTML message can include your logo and/or institutional insignia, can include hyperlinks, and can look more attractive.
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     * Once testing is complete, run the script in production mode. Typically, the newsletter script is run from the command line. The reminder script is typically run as a [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/tasks.php periodic task], every 24 hours or so. 
 
-The newsletter and reminder scripts use the recent-average credit (expavg_credit) field in the user table. To make sure this value is accurate, run [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/project_tasks.php update_stats] manually if you're not running it as a periodic task.
+The newsletter and reminder scripts use the recent-average credit (expavg_credit) field in the user table. To make sure this value is accurate, run [ProjectTasks update_stats] manually if you're not running it as a periodic task.
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 === Personalizing emails ===
 
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 === Avoiding spam filtering ===
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 Your email is less likely to be rejected by spam filters if:
 
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 truncate mass_email/log
 }}}
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 == Reminder emails ==