AcaWiki:Strategies

Potential strategies for making AcaWiki great, categorized below. Please edit this page or add to its discussion page!

Community
Increase number of new contributors and retention thereof.
 * hack-a-thons
 * giving people who contribute to acawiki a t-shirt
 * branding and strategies, logos
 * contest on open clip art
 * why under community? because should be seen and operated as way to involve and grow community

Organization

 * define vision, mission
 * implement governance best practices
 * hire interim ED
 * expand board
 * raise funds for permanent staff

Content
Increase amount of relevant content so AcaWiki summaries are found by more people, really a means to community growth ends.
 * paying people to write the cannon

Product, Marketing, Unknown

 * positioning as a tool for research groups
 * reaching out to science bloggers
 * high school students to drive demand
 * current awareness service--bounties for people to summarize research, which is then distributed like "CurrentCites". More neutral than reviews

Bad ideas

 * putting ads on google