Retention, Publicity, Teams, Help Publicise BOINC. Discussion 2.
This discussion was along similar lines to the earlier discussion with a similar heading.
- Retaining users is as important as recruitment of new users.
- Gathering info about why users stop.
- Skype contacts to help.
- Research reasons why users leave projects.
- Ask new users how things are going?
- Tooting horn v Buzz Marketing.
- Old news Results/New? angles, making it hard to get in.
- BOINC logos and slogan might help with publicity; “Do you BOINC?”
- Possible selective marketing to top users.
- More tools to publicise BOINC.
- Frequent news posts, revise project pages for this.
- Separate Technical news. Science news/ Project news.
- Problems with sharing news. Update RSS feed.
- Get better data and stats on retention. Analyse it, deduce best practice, and experiment with best approaches.
- Get companies to join BOINC (Very challenging, security!).
- Monthly BOINC newsletter, Default ticked to “Opt in”. Example ISGTW.
- Do publicity, list as many ways as possible on one page with links to more detailed ways for each method.
- New opportunities, Myspace, Facebook, Web buttons.
- Enthusiastic users will help if they have easy access to lots of ideas.
- Learn from other grid computing; Folding@home.
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