Additional Tactics to Consider
The following ideas have been culled from suggestions made by pilot participants and guests at Sakai-related meetings.
- Open up the system for experimentation by users prior to release.
- Make it clear that the decision has been adequately planned for in advance.
- Emphasize the familiar aspects as much as possible.
- Show the advantages of Sakai.
- Engage the campus community in as many ways as possible.
- Get thef aculty to champion the system to spread it's use.
- Inspire researchers to use the research and data collection tools in Sakai.
- Consider on incentives and rewards for making the switch?
- Find ways to demonstrate successes to a wide audience.
- Identify departments for presenting Sakai demos.
- Design a PowerPoint presentation that can be customized for each department.
- Use faculty's excitement about breeze to promote its integration with Sakai
- Find ways to involve deans and perhaps acquir letters of support.
- Use facebook as an advertising tool
- Promote the system in all available publications
- Formulate invitations to tech support folks
- Focus Group for tech support for departments represented by FMFP
- Add, contribute, and study Sakai's presence on http://www.daviswiki.org\
- Create a Sakai page. (Not currently in existence.)