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