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