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Concrete Tactics Organized by Audience

Concrete Tactics Organized by Audience

Mar 14, 2007

Concrete Tactics Organized by Audience

Faculty

  • Public Sakai Web Site

  • IT Times Spring 2006

  • Faculty Profiles

  • Short Testimonials Podcasts and Transcripts

  • Advertise the Faculty Mentoring Faculty program

  • Promote excitement about Breeze to open the door for Sakai.

  • Focus groups

  • Pilot Projects

  • Spotlight effective professor worksites to inspire others.

    • FMFP: We don't want to be forced to join. Just let us view the sites, visit, steal code, etc.

  • Advertise IT Express

  • Organize a "Sakai Day" (open house, with presentations, demos, interactions with faculty participants, access to computers, etc.)

  • Faculty Classes

  • FTG

  • Dateline

  • 2-page phone directory ad.

  • TeachNewss

  • Sakai Documentation

    • Do's and Dont's

    • The Least You Need to know

    • Frequently Asked Questions FAQ

    • Faculty Users Guide

  • Testimonials

  • Faculty Quick Reference Guide

  • TechTips

  • Online Video Tutorials

Students

  • Public Sakai Web Site

  • HyperText Summer 2006

  • Freshman & Transfer Student Orientation

  • Facebook as an advertising tool

    • 10,000 Flyers = $5/day

    • 20,000 Flyers = $10/day

    • 30,000 Flyers = $15/day

    • 40,000 Flyers = $20/day

    • Also consider a macro to add "Sakai" as a "Friend" to all UC Davis students.

  • MU Display Boards

  • Contribute to the Sakai page on DavisWiki

  • Focus groups

  • Create a MySpace-entity for Sakai after public site is released.
    **Also consider a macro to add Sakai as a friend to all students.

  • Involve the Davis Honors Challenge

  • Advertise IT Express

  • Organize a "Sakai Day"

  • Student Questions

  • Consider the new system from the students' perspective and make sure it works for them.

  • Picnic Day Presence

  • Lab Management Bootcamp

  • California Aggie Articles

  • Bits & Bytes

  • SCG

  • ASUCD

  • Dateline

  • 2-page phone directory ad.

  • eachNewss

  • Sakai Documentation

    • The Least You Need to know

    • Frequently Asked Questions FAQ

    • Student Users Guide

  • Testimonials

  • Student Quick Reference Guide

  • Online Video Tutorials

Researchers.

  • Public Sakai Web Site

  • Focus groups

  • Advertise IT Express

  • Organize a "Sakai Research Day"

  • Network with Vet Med and Med to encourage acadaemic research uses of Sakai.

  • Picnic Day Presence

  • Dateline

  • Testimonials

  • Online Video Tutorials

  • Handouts with examples of succesful collaboratories, including definition of wiki, etc.

    • zShake table; Nevada, Reno

    • Reaction wall; Minnesota

    • Centrifuge; UC Davis

    • Wave basic: Oregon state

    • Field Structura; UCLA

    • Field geotechnical; Texas

  • Provide access to research papers we have collected in confluence from the public Web site (e.g. "Collaborative eScience, Evolving Approaches")

Departments

  • Public Sakai Web Site

  • Provide open opportunities for representatives to experiment with the system.

  • Identify Departments and provide Demonstrations/Demos.

  • Design a PowerPoint presentation that can be customized for each department.

  • Focus groups

  • Advertise IT Express

  • Locate/identify e-learning/collaborative-friendly departments and get them on board first.

  • Develop departmental liaisons who can sell the vision to and train their own faculty. This includes working closely with TIF and TSP members in academic departments, as well as with the FMFP.

  • Picnic Day Presence

  • iet.ucdav8s.edu

  • Online Video Tutorials