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