Timeline for Suggest site promotion ideas
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| Oct 6, 2012 at 9:12 | answer | added | FolksLord | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 3, 2012 at 8:11 | answer | added | Diego | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 18, 2012 at 18:06 | comment | added | Keegan Keplinger | Use the community to design an attractive flyer for people to print and post locally at their colleges, invite people from particular subreddits at reddit.com | |
| Sep 14, 2012 at 15:13 | comment | added | Laura Staff | @ArtemKaznatcheev You can also let them know that it's okay (and encouraged) to ask or answer their own question. They might not be browsing the internet the whole time they're doing research, but sometimes it's really satisfying to encounter a problem, work to find the solution, and then be able to share both the problem and solution you found with a broader group of like-minded people. | |
| Sep 14, 2012 at 15:12 | comment | added | Laura Staff | @ArtemKaznatcheev Because we do have a lot of rules that are unlike other online communities, try to give them a really basic overview of how the site works before they visit - let them know other people can/will edit their posts, encourage them to search for dupes before posting, etc. If you refer people, try to pay closer attention to new questions asked on the site and answer your colleagues'/friends' questions quickly if you can. If you think it appeals to them, tell them to check out the badge page and see if earning badges can be a motivating factor. | |
| Sep 14, 2012 at 15:02 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackCogSci/status/246625061086298113 | ||
| Sep 14, 2012 at 14:22 | comment | added | Artem Kaznatcheev | @Laura any pro-tips on how to encourage these regular users? I have advertised in my lab and to my friends and colleagues, but the retention has been minimal. | |
| Sep 14, 2012 at 14:20 | comment | added | Laura Staff | Getting college students on board is a great goal; I'd encourage you to focus on getting a smaller number of people who will become regular users over a larger number of people who will only visit for a day. Good luck! :) | |
| Sep 14, 2012 at 14:20 | comment | added | Laura Staff | @ArtemKaznatcheev We found that the ambassador program works best on sites that have current college students who are both already pretty active on the SE site in question and are pretty involved in their academic department on campus. Students will trust someone who actually uses the site much more than someone who logged in once. The most successful ambassadors had study groups who could utilize the site when studying/doing homework; it never drove a huge influx of new users though. | |
| Sep 14, 2012 at 13:41 | history | edited | JoshMod |
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| Sep 14, 2012 at 13:15 | comment | added | Artem Kaznatcheev | I remember that the SE team once ran a University Ambassador program I would love to hear from some chaos team members on if it was a useful initiative. | |
| Sep 14, 2012 at 13:11 | history | asked | Zelda | CC BY-SA 3.0 |