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.)

• Encourage students to "champion" the system among faculty.

• Ask each of the students who worked on the DHC project to comment on their experience with the system.

• Involve ASUCD where necessary

• Promote Sakai by telling folks that campus servers will be able to house sites + info, so they will no longer need to worry about departmental servers going down.

• Promote Sakai by telling folks that campus servers will be able to house sites, info, and 24x7 support. They no longer need to worry about your departmental server going down.

• Perform load tests to confirm maximum load