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Vitalii Koshura edited this page 2023-04-16 18:16:37 +02:00

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.