WorkShop07_PubBoincTwo

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.