AcaWiki:Strategies
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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