List of Tactics for Successful Communication

• Open up the system for experimentation by users

• Make it clear that the decision has been adequately planned

• Emphasize the familiar

• Show the advantage of Sakai

• Engage the campus community

• Faculty as champions

• Pilot Project

• Research and Data collection

• Encourage new faculty

• Focus on incentives and rewards

• Demonstrate successes

• Identify departments for presenting demos.

• Use faculty's excitement about breeze to promote its integration with Sakai

• Involve deans

• Use facebook as an advertising tool

• Promote the system in available publications

• Formulate invitation to tech support folks

• Focus Group for tech support for departments represented by FMFP