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| | 2 | == Retention, Publicity, Teams, Help Publicise BOINC. Discussion 2. == |
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| | 4 | This discussion was along similar lines to the earlier discussion with a similar heading. |
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| | 6 | * Retaining users is as important as recruitment of new users. |
| | 7 | * Gathering info about why users stop. |
| | 8 | * Skype contacts to help. |
| | 9 | * Research reasons why users leave projects. |
| | 10 | * Ask new users how things are going? |
| | 11 | * Tooting horn v Buzz Marketing. |
| | 12 | * Old news Results/New angles, making it hard to get in. |
| | 13 | * BOINC logos and slogan might help with publicity; “Do you BOINC?” |
| | 14 | * Possible selective marketing to top users. |
| | 15 | * More tools to publicise BOINC. |
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| | 17 | * Frequent news posts, revise project pages for this. |
| | 18 | * Separate Technical news. Science news/ Project news. |
| | 19 | * Problems with sharing news. Update RSS feed. |
| | 20 | * Get better data and stats on retention. Analyse it, deduce best practice, and experiment with best approaches. |
| | 21 | * Get companies to join BOINC (Very challenging, security!). |
| | 22 | * Monthly BOINC newsletter, Default ticked to “Opt in”. Example ISGTW. |
| | 23 | * Do publicity, list as many ways as possible on one page with links to more detailed ways for each method. |
| | 24 | * New opportunities, Myspace, Facebook, Web buttons. |
| | 25 | * Enthusiastic users will help if they have easy access to lots of ideas. |
| | 26 | * Learn from other grid computing; Folding@home. |
